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View article: North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period
North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period Open
The North Pontic region, which encompasses present-day Ukraine, was a crossroads of migration, connecting the vast Eurasian Steppe with Central Europe. We generated shotgun-sequenced genomic data for 91 individuals dating from around 7000 …
View article: Capturing the fusion of two ancestries and kinship structures in Merovingian Flanders
Capturing the fusion of two ancestries and kinship structures in Merovingian Flanders Open
The Merovingian period (5th to 8th cc AD) was a time of demographic, socioeconomic, cultural, and political realignment in Western Europe. Here, we report the whole-genome shotgun sequence data of 30 human skeletal remains from a coastal L…
View article: North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period
North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period Open
Summary The North Pontic region, which encompasses present-day Ukraine, was a crossroads of migration as it connected the vast Eurasian Steppe with Central Europe. We generated shotgun-sequenced genomic data for 91 individuals dating from …
View article: A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia
A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia Open
Although dozens of ancient Yersinia pestis genomes and a vast corpus of documentary data are available, the origin and spread of consecutive outbreaks of the Second Plague Pandemic in Europe (14th–18th c.) are still poorly understood. For …
View article: Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia
Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia Open
Human herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), a life-long infection spread by oral contact, infects a majority of adults globally. Phylogeographic clustering of sampled diversity into European, pan-Eurasian, and African groups has suggested the vi…
View article: Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia
Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia Open
Summary Human herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), a life-long infection spread by oral contact, today infects a majority of adults globally 1 , yet no ancient HSV-1 genomes have yet been published. Phylogeographic clustering of sampled diversi…
View article: Ancestral contributions to contemporary European complex traits
Ancestral contributions to contemporary European complex traits Open
The contemporary European genetic makeup formed in the last 8000 years as the combination of three main genetic components: the local Western Hunter-Gatherers, the incoming Neolithic Farmers from Anatolia and the Bronze Age component from …
View article: Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain
Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain Open
aDNA reveals Eastern hunter-gatherers in NW Russia after Ice Age, Steppe and farmer ancestries in first forest pastoralists.
View article: Additional file 3 of Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes
Additional file 3 of Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes Open
Additional file 3: Table S5. SNP distance matrix.
View article: Additional file 2 of Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes
Additional file 2 of Mycobacterium leprae diversity and population dynamics in medieval Europe from novel ancient genomes Open
Additional file 2: Table S4. Result table of the SNP effect analysis.
View article: Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain
Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain Open
Transition from the Stone to the Bronze Age in Central and Western Europe was a period of major population movements originating from the Ponto-Caspian Steppe. Here, we report new genome-wide sequence data from 28 individuals from the terr…
View article: AN ADMIXTURE SIGNAL IN ARMENIANS AROUND THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE REVEALS WIDESPREAD POPULATION MOVEMENT ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST
AN ADMIXTURE SIGNAL IN ARMENIANS AROUND THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE REVEALS WIDESPREAD POPULATION MOVEMENT ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST Open
The Armenians, a population inhabiting the region in West Asia known as the Armenian Highland, has been argued to show a remarkable degree of population continuity since the Early Neolithic. Here we test the degree of continuity of this po…
View article: Multidisciplinary investigation of two Egyptian child mummies curated at the University of Tartu Art Museum, Estonia (Late/Graeco-Roman Periods)
Multidisciplinary investigation of two Egyptian child mummies curated at the University of Tartu Art Museum, Estonia (Late/Graeco-Roman Periods) Open
Two ancient Egyptian child mummies at the University of Tartu Art Museum (Estonia) were, according to museum records, brought to Estonia by the young Baltic-German scholar Otto Friedrich von Richter, who had travelled in Egypt during the e…
View article: Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations
Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations Open
We show that most Uralic speakers share a distinct ancestry component of likely Siberian origin, which suggests that the spread of Uralic languages involved at least some demic component.
View article: Ancient pathogen <scp>DNA</scp> in human teeth and petrous bones
Ancient pathogen <span>DNA</span> in human teeth and petrous bones Open
Recent ancient DNA ( aDNA ) studies of human pathogens have provided invaluable insights into their evolutionary history and prevalence in space and time. Most of these studies were based on DNA extracted from teeth or postcranial bones. I…
View article: Additional file 14: of Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations
Additional file 14: of Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations Open
Table S13. Outgroup f3 statistic. (XLSX 305 kb)
View article: Additional file 11: of Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations
Additional file 11: of Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations Open
Table S10. Globetrotter results. (XLSX 48 kb)
View article: Additional file 16: of Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations
Additional file 16: of Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations Open
Table S15. Mantel test results. (XLSX 11 kb)