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Equal in death: Ancient genomic analysis of children's early Christian burials

Krzewinska, Maja; Kjellström, Anna; Yaka, Reyhan; Rodríguez-Varela, Ricardo et al.

Part of Science Advances, 2026

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Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland

Fraser, Magdalena; Sanchez-Quinto, Federico; Kirdök, Emrah; Ausmees, Kristiina et al.

Part of Communications Biology, 2026

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Genetic relatedness mattered in the co-burial ritual of Neolithic hunter-gatherers

Mattila, Tiina Maria; Fraser, Magdalena; Koelman, Julian; Krzewinska, Maja et al.

Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2026

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Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes

Jakobsson, Mattias; Bernhardsson, Carolina; McKenna, James; Hollfelder, Nina et al.

Part of Nature, p. 156-163, 2026

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HLA diversity and signatures of selection in the Maniq, a nomadic hunter-gatherer population in Southern Thailand

Schaschl, Helmut; Herzog, Tobias; Oberreiter, Victoria; Kutanan, Wibhu et al.

Part of Immunogenetics, 2025

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Ancient DNA HLA typing reveals significant shifts in frequency in Europe since the Neolithic

Plascencia, Alan Godinez; Jakobsson, Mattias; Sanchez-Quinto, Federico

Part of Scientific Reports, 2025

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Analysis of the abundance of radiocarbon samples as count data

de Navascues, Miguel; Burgarella, Concetta; Jakobsson, Mattias

Part of Peer Community Journal, 2025

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Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers

Seersholm, Frederik Valeur; Sjögren, Karl-Göran; Koelman, Julia; Blank, Malou et al.

Part of Nature, p. 114-121, 2024

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BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups

Breton, Gwenna; Barham, Lawrence; Mudenda, George; Soodyall, Himla et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2024

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Human genetic structure in Northwest France provides new insights into West European historical demography

Alves, Isabel; Giemza, Joanna; Blum, Michael G. B.; Bernhardsson, Carolina et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2024

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The genetic changes that shaped Neandertals, Denisovans, and modern humans

Zeberg, Hugo; Jakobsson, Mattias; Paabo, Svante

Part of Cell, p. 1047-1058, 2024

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Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans

Bergfeldt, Nora; Kirdök, Emrah; Oskolkov, Nikolay; Mirabello, Claudio et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2024

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Metagenomic analysis of Mesolithic chewed pitch reveals poor oral health among stone age individuals

Kirdök, Emrah; Kashuba, Natalija; Damlien, Hege; Manninen, Mikael A. et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2024

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Genomic ancestry and social dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers of Atlantic France

Simões, Luciana G.; Peyroteo Stjerna, Rita; Marchand, Grégor; Bernhardsson, Carolina et al.

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024

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Detecting population continuity and ghost admixture among ancient genomes

McKenna, James; Bernhardsson, Carolina; Waxman, David; Jakobsson, Mattias et al.

Part of Human Population Genetics and Genomics, p. 1-28, 2024

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Archaic humans have contributed to large-scale variation in modern human T cell receptor genes

Corcoran, Martin; Chernyshev, Mark; Mandolesi, Marco; Narang, Sanjana et al.

Part of Immunity, p. 635-652000000, 2023

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Patrilocality and hunter-gatherer-related ancestry of populations in East-Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age

Chylenski, Maciej; Makarowicz, Przemyslaw; Juras, Anna; Krzewinska, Maja et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2023

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Genetic continuity, isolation, and gene flow in Stone Age Central and Eastern Europe

Mattila, Tiina M.; Svensson, Emma M.; Juras, Anna; Günther, Torsten et al.

Part of Communications Biology, 2023

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Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant

Simões, Luciana G.; Günther, Torsten; Martínez-Sánchez, Rafael M.; Vera-Rodríguez, Juan Carlos et al.

Part of Nature, p. 550-556, 2023

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Rickettsia felis DNA recovered from a child who lived in southern Africa 2000 years ago

Rifkin, Riaan F. F.; Vikram, Surendra; Alcorta, Jaime; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste et al.

Part of Communications Biology, 2023

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The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present

Rodríguez-Varela, Ricardo; Moore, Kristjan H.S.; Ebenesersdóttir, S. Sunna; Kilinc, Gulsah Merve et al.

Part of Cell, p. 32-460000000000000000000, 2023

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Epigenomic Modifications in Modern and Ancient Genomes

Niiranen, Laura; Leciej, Dawid; Edlund, Hanna; Bernhardsson, Carolina et al.

Part of Genes, 2022

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Bioarchaeological evidence of one of the earliest Islamic burials in the Levant

Srigyan, Megha; Bolivar, Hector; Urena, Irene; Santana, Jonathan et al.

Part of Communications Biology, 2022

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Episodes of Diversification and Isolation in Island Southeast Asian and Near Oceanian Male Lineages

Karmin, Monika; Flores, Rodrigo; Saag, Lauri; Hudjashov, Georgi et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2022

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Multidisciplinary investigation reveals an individual of West African origin buried in a Portuguese Mesolithic shell midden four centuries ago

Peyroteo-Stjerna, Rita; Simões, Luciana G.; Fernandes, Ricardo; Lopes, Gonçalo et al.

Part of Journal of Archaeological Science, 2022

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An empirical evaluation of genotype imputation of ancient DNA

Ausmees, Kristiina; Sanchez-Quinto, Federico; Jakobsson, Mattias; Nettelblad, Carl

Part of G3, 2022

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Analysis of Population Structure

Sjödin, Per; Gattepaille, Lucie M.; Skoglund, Pontus; Schlebusch, Carina et al.

Part of Human Population Genomics, p. 47-68, Springer, 2021

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Maternal genetic origin of the late and final Neolithic human populations from present-day Poland

Juras, Anna; Ehler, Edvard; Chylenski, Maciej; Pospieszny, Lukasz et al.

Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 223-236, 2021

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Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world

Larena, Maximilian; McKenna, James; Sanchez-Quinto, Federico; Bernhardsson, Carolina et al.

Part of Current Biology, p. 4219-4230, 2021

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Comparison of sequencing data processing pipelines and application to underrepresented African human populations

Breton, Gwenna; Johansson, Anna C. V.; Sjödin, Per; Schlebusch, Carina et al.

Part of BMC Bioinformatics, 2021

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Evolution of cytokine production capacity in ancient and modern European populations

Domínguez-Andrés, Jorge; Kuijpers, Yunus; Bakker, Olivier B.; Jaeger, Martin et al.

Part of eLIFE, 2021

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Genome of Peştera Muierii skull shows high diversity and low mutational load in pre-glacial Europe

Svensson, Emma; Günther, Torsten; Hoischen, Alexander; Hervella, Montserrat et al.

Part of Current Biology, p. 2973-U21, 2021

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Genomic insights into population history and biological adaptation in Oceania

Choin, Jeremy; Mendoza-Revilla, Javier; Arauna, Lara R.; Cuadros-Espinoza, Sebastian et al.

Part of Nature, p. 583-589, 2021

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Taste perception and lifestyle: insights from phenotype and genome data among Africans and Asians

Sjöstrand, Agnès E.; Sjödin, Per; Hegay, Tatyana; Nikolaeva, Anna et al.

Part of European Journal of Human Genetics, p. 325-337, 2021

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Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes

Yaka, Reyhan; Mapelli, Igor; Kaptan, Damla; Dogu, Ayca et al.

Part of Current Biology, p. 2455-2.468e+21, 2021

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The deep population history in Africa

Hollfelder, Nina; Breton, Gwenna; Sjödin, Per; Jakobsson, Mattias

Part of Human Molecular Genetics, 2021

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Human origins in Southern African palaeo-wetlands?: Strong claims from weak evidence

Schlebusch, Carina; Loog, Liisa; Groucutt, Huw S.; King, Turi et al.

Part of Journal of Archaeological Science, 2021

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Estimating divergence times from DNA sequences

Sjödin, Per; McKenna, James; Jakobsson, Mattias

Part of Genetics, 2021

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Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years

Larena, Maximilian; Sanchez-Quinto, Federico; Sjödin, Per; McKenna, James et al.

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021

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Mobility patterns in inland southwestern Sweden during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

Blank, Malou; Sjögren, Karl-Göran; Knipper, Corina; Frei, Karin M. et al.

Part of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2021

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Human population dynamics and Yersinia pestis in ancient northeast Asia

Kilinc, Gulsah Merve; Kashuba, Natalija; Koptekin, Dilek; Bergfeldt, Nora et al.

Part of Science Advances, 2021

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Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups

Coutinho, Alexandra; Malmström, Helena; Edlund, Hanna; Henshilwood, Christopher et al.

Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 701-713, 2021

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The Genetic Variation of Lactase Persistence Alleles in Sudan and South Sudan

Hollfelder, Nina; Babiker, Hiba; Granehäll, Lena; Schlebusch, Carina M. et al.

Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2021

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Y-Chromosome Variation in Southern African Khoe-San Populations Based on Whole-Genome Sequences

Naidoo, Thijessen; Xu, Jingzi; Vicente, Mário; Malmström, Helena et al.

Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, p. 1031-1039, 2020

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Mitochondrial genomes from Bronze Age Poland reveal genetic continuity from the Late Neolithic and additional genetic affinities with the steppe populations

Juras, Anna; Makarowicz, Przemyslaw; Chylenski, Maciej; Ehler, Edvard et al.

Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 176-188, 2020

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Robust genome-wide ancestry inference for heterogeneous datasets: illustrated using the 1,000 genome project with 3D facial images

Li, Jiarui; Zarzar, Tomas Gonzalez; White, Julie D.; Indencleef, Karlijne et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2020

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Illuminating Genetic Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Anava, Sarit; Neuhof, Moran; Gingold, Hila; Sagy, Or et al.

Part of Cell, p. 1218-+, 2020

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Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens

Schlebusch, Carina; Sjödin, Per; Breton, Gwenna; Günther, Torsten et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 2944-2954, 2020

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The Neolithic Pitted Ware culture foragers were culturally but not genetically influenced by the Battle Axe culture herders

Coutinho, Alexandra; Günther, Torsten; Munters, Arielle R.; Svensson, Emma M. et al.

Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 638-649, 2020

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Patterns of African and Asian admixture in the Afrikaner population of South Africa

Hollfelder, Nina; Erasmus, Johannes Christoff; Hammarén, Rickard; Vicente, Mário et al.

Part of BMC Biology, 2020

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