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Morten E. Allentoft
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Open AccessRepeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers
In the period between 5,300 and 4,900 calibrated years before present (cal. bp), populations across large parts of Europe underwent a period of demographic decline1,2. However, the cause of this so-called Neolith...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia
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Open Access100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark
Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales1–4. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient ge...
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Open AccessPopulation genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia
Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene1–5. Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced 317 genomes—mainly from the Meso...
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Open AccessThe selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians
The Holocene (beginning around 12,000 years ago) encompassed some of the most significant changes in human evolution, with far-reaching consequences for the dietary, physical and mental health of present-day p...
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Open AccessElevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuro-inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease that is most prevalent in Northern Europe. Although it is known that inherited risk for MS is located within or in close proximity ...
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Open AccessWhen nets meet environmental DNA metabarcoding: integrative approach to unveil invertebrate community patterns of hypersaline lakes
Saline and hypersaline wetlands account for almost half of the volume of inland water globally. They provide pivotal habitat for a vast range of species, including crucial ecosystem services for humans such as...
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Open AccessImputation of ancient human genomes
Due to postmortem DNA degradation and microbial colonization, most ancient genomes have low depth of coverage, hindering genotype calling. Genotype imputation can improve genoty** accuracy for low-coverage geno...
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Open AccessA 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA
Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs 3.6 to 0.8 million years ago1 had climates resembling those forecasted under future warming2. Palaeoclimatic records show strong polar amplification with mean annual tem...
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Open AccessGenomic ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from San Teodoro cave
Recent improvements in the analysis of ancient biomolecules from human remains and associated dental calculus have provided new insights into the prehistoric diet and genetic diversity of our species. Here we ...
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Raptor roosts as invasion archives: insights from the first black rat mitochondrial genome sequenced from the Caribbean
Raptor roosts, as accumulations of expelled pellets and nest material, serve as archives of past and present small mammal communities and could therefore be used to track invasive species population dynamics o...
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Open AccessThe origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes
Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare1. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evide...
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Author Correction: Population genomics of the Viking world
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03328-2.
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Population genomics of the Viking world
The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age (about ad 750–1050) was a far-flung transformation in world history1,2. Here we sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sit...
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Open AccessAncient Jomon genome sequence analysis sheds light on migration patterns of early East Asian populations
Anatomically modern humans reached East Asia more than 40,000 years ago. However, key questions still remain unanswered with regard to the route(s) and the number of wave(s) in the dispersal into East Eurasia....
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Open AccessMap** co-ancestry connections between the genome of a Medieval individual and modern Europeans
Historical genetic links among similar populations can be difficult to establish. Identity by descent (IBD) analyses find genomic blocks that represent direct genealogical relationships among individuals. Howe...
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Open AccessA 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch
The rise of ancient genomics has revolutionised our understanding of human prehistory but this work depends on the availability of suitable samples. Here we present a complete ancient human genome and oral mic...
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Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine
Gigantopithecus blacki was a giant hominid that inhabited densely forested environments of Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene epoch1. Its evolutionary relationships to other great ape species, and the divergen...
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Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny
The sequencing of ancient DNA has enabled the reconstruction of speciation, migration and admixture events for extinct taxa1. However, the irreversible post-mortem degradation2 of ancient DNA has so far limited i...
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The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene
Northeastern Siberia has been inhabited by humans for more than 40,000 years but its deep population history remains poorly understood. Here we investigate the late Pleistocene population history of northeaste...
