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List of works by Richard Villems

"Like sugar in milk": reconstructing the genetic history of the Parsi population

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A "Copernican" reassessment of the human mitochondrial DNA tree from its root

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A Selective Sweep on a Deleterious Mutation in CPT1A in Arctic Populations

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A counter-clockwise northern route of the Y-chromosome haplogroup N from Southeast Asia towards Europe

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A major Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b Holocene era founder effect in Central and Western Europe

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A prehistory of Indian Y chromosomes: evaluating demic diffusion scenarios

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A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture

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A signal, from human mtDNA, of postglacial recolonization in Europe

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A “Copernican” Reassessment of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Tree from Its Root.

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Afghan Hindu Kush: where Eurasian sub-continent gene flows converge

scientific article published in 2013

An Aboriginal Australian genome reveals separate human dispersals into Asia

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2011)

An mtDNA perspective of French genetic variation

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Ancient DNA from European early Neolithic farmers reveals their near eastern affinities

scientific article published in 2010

Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

Author Correction: The genetic legacy of continental scale admixture in Indian Austroasiatic speakers

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

Autosomal and uniparental portraits of the native populations of Sakha (Yakutia): implications for the peopling of Northeast Eurasia

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Beringian standstill and spread of Native American founders

scientific article published in 2007

Continental and subcontinental distributions of mtDNA control region types

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Counting the founders: the matrilineal genetic ancestry of the Jewish Diaspora

scientific article published in 2008

Croatian genetic heritage: Y-chromosome story

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Deep common ancestry of indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages

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Dissecting the paternal founders of Mundari (Austroasiatic) speakers associated with the language dispersal in South Asia

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Distinguishing the co-ancestries of haplogroup G Y-chromosomes in the populations of Europe and the Caucasus

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Disuniting uniformity: a pied cladistic canvas of mtDNA haplogroup H in Eurasia

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Divorcing the Late Upper Palaeolithic demographic histories of mtDNA haplogroups M1 and U6 in Africa

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East Eurasian ancestry in the middle of Europe: genetic footprints of Steppe nomads in the genomes of Belarusian Lipka Tatars

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Erratum: The population history of the Croatian linguistic minority of Molise (southern Italy): a maternal view

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Erratum: Y chrosomal heritage of Croatian population and its island isolates

scholarly article published in European Journal of Human Genetics

Ethiopian mitochondrial DNA heritage: tracking gene flow across and around the gate of tears

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Evolution of the pygmy phenotype: evidence of positive selection fro genome-wide scans in African, Asian, and Melanesian pygmies

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Explaining the imperfection of the molecular clock of hominid mitochondria

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Frequencies of mtDNA haplogroups in southeastern Europe--Croatians, Bosnians and Herzegovinians, Serbians, Macedonians and Macedonian Romani

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Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations

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Genetic Heritage of the Balto-Slavic Speaking Populations: A Synthesis of Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosomal Data

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Genetic diversity and evidence for population admixture in Batak Negritos from Palawan

scientific article (publication date: September 2011)

Genetic evidence on the origins of Indian caste populations

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Genome-wide analysis of cold adaptation in indigenous Siberian populations

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Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

scientific article (publication date: 13 October 2016)

Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation

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Global patterns of diversity and selection in human tyrosinase gene

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Herders of Indian and European cattle share their predominant allele for lactase persistence

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High Prevalence of The CCR5Δ32 HIV-Resistance Mutation among Estonian HIV Type 1-Infected Individuals

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Human Y Chromosome Haplogroup N: A Non-trivial Time-Resolved Phylogeography that Cuts across Language Families

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Human Y-chromosome variation in the western Mediterranean area: implications for the peopling of the region

scientific article (publication date: September 2001)

Identification of Native American founder mtDNAs through the analysis of complete mtDNA sequences: some caveats.

scientific article published in November 2003

Identification of endangered petrel species from poor quality feather debris using cytochrome b sequences

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Influence of evolutionary forces and demographic processes on the genetic structure of three Croatian populations: A maternal perspective

scientific article published on March 1, 2012

Investigating the origins of eastern Polynesians using genome-wide data from the Leeward Society Isles

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Maternal footprints of Southeast Asians in North India

scientific article published on 28 January 2008

Maternal genetic heritage of Southeastern Europe reveals a new Croatian isolate and a novel, local sub-branching in the x2 haplogroup

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

Maternal genetic legacy of the eastern Adriatic island of Krk--an interplay of evolutionary forces and island's historical events in shaping the genetic structure of contemporary island population

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Mitochondrial DNA heritage of Cres Islanders--example of Croatian genetic outliers.

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Mitochondrial DNA signals of late glacial recolonization of Europe from near eastern refugia

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Mitochondrial DNA variation of modern Tuscans supports the near eastern origin of Etruscans

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Mitochondrial haplogroup U5b3: a distant echo of the epipaleolithic in Italy and the legacy of the early Sardinians

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Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans

scientific article (publication date: 4 August 2005)

Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in south and southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans

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MtDNA evidence for a genetic bottleneck in the early history of the Ashkenazi Jewish population

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MtDNA profile of West Africa Guineans: towards a better understanding of the Senegambia region

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No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Ashkenazi Jews

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Origin and diffusion of human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267

scientific article published on 23 March 2021

Origin and diffusion of mtDNA haplogroup X

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Origin and spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7.

scientific article published on 07 April 2017

POPULATION GENETICS. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

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Paleo-Eskimo mtDNA genome reveals matrilineal discontinuity in Greenland

scientific article published on 29 May 2008

Peopling of South Asia: investigating the caste-tribe continuum in India

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Phylogenetic applications of whole Y-chromosome sequences and the Near Eastern origin of Ashkenazi Levites

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Phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial DNA in northern Asian populations

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Phylogeography of Y-chromosome haplogroup I reveals distinct domains of prehistoric gene flow in europe

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Phylogeography of mtDNA haplogroup R7 in the Indian peninsula

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Population data on 11 Y-chromosome STRs from Guiné-Bissau

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Population genetic structure in Indian Austroasiatic speakers: the role of landscape barriers and sex-specific admixture

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Predominance of a rare type of HIV-1 in Estonia.

scientific article published in August 2005

Reconstructing the demographic history of the Himalayan and adjoining populations

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Reconstructing the population history of the largest tribe of India: the Dravidian speaking Gond

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Reconstructing the population history of the largest tribe of India: the Dravidian speaking Gond

scientific article published on 01 November 2017

Reply to Winters

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Revealing the prehistoric settlement of Australia by Y chromosome and mtDNA analysis

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Selective sweep on human amylase genes postdates the split with Neanderthals

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Separating the post-Glacial coancestry of European and Asian Y chromosomes within haplogroup R1a

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Separating the post-Glacial coancestry of European and Asian Y chromosomes within haplogroup R1a.

scientific article published on 19 August 2010

Shared and unique components of human population structure and genome-wide signals of positive selection in South Asia

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Shifts in the Genetic Landscape of the Western Eurasian Steppe Associated with the Beginning and End of the Scythian Dominance

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

The Arrival of Siberian Ancestry Connecting the Eastern Baltic to Uralic Speakers further East

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

The Caucasus as an asymmetric semipermeable barrier to ancient human migrations

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

The Emerging Limbs and Twigs of the East Asian mtDNA Tree

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The Genetic Ancestry of Modern Indus Valley Populations from Northwest India.

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The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Turkic-Speaking Nomads Across Eurasia

The Place of the Indian Mitochondrial DNA Variants in the Global Network of Maternal Lineages and the Peopling of the Old World

The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

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The dawn of human matrilineal diversity

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The genetic heritage of the earliest settlers persists both in Indian tribal and caste populations

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The genetic legacy of continental scale admixture in Indian Austroasiatic speakers

scientific article published on 07 March 2019

The genetic legacy of the expansion of Turkic-speaking nomads across Eurasia

scientific article published on 21 April 2015

The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic

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The genetic structure of south Asian populations as revealed by 650 000 SNPs.

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The genetic variation in the R1a clade among the Ashkenazi Levites' Y chromosome

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people

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The light skin allele of SLC24A5 in South Asians and Europeans shares identity by descent

scientific article published on 7 November 2013

The matrilineal ancestry of Ashkenazi Jewry: portrait of a recent founder event

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The molecular dissection of mtDNA haplogroup H confirms that the Franco-Cantabrian glacial refuge was a major source for the European gene pool

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The phylogenetic and geographic structure of Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a

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The phylogeography of Y-chromosome haplogroup h1a1a-m82 reveals the likely Indian origin of the European Romani populations

scientific article published in 2012

The population history of the Croatian linguistic minority of Molise (southern Italy): a maternal view

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The western and eastern roots of the Saami--the story of genetic "outliers" told by mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes

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Tracing European founder lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA pool

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Two sources of the Russian patrilineal heritage in their Eurasian context

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Uniparental genetic heritage of belarusians: encounter of rare middle eastern matrilineages with a central European mitochondrial DNA pool

scientific article published in 2013

Unravelling the distinct strains of Tharu ancestry

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Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

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Variation at diabetes- and obesity-associated Loci may mirror neutral patterns of human population diversity and diabetes prevalence in India

scientific article published in July 2013

Y chromosomal heritage of Croatian population and its island isolates

scientific article (publication date: July 2003)

Y-chromosomal analysis of clan structure of Kalmyks, the only European Mongol people, and their relationship to Oirat-Mongols of Inner Asia

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Y-chromosomal connection between Hungarians and geographically distant populations of the Ural Mountain region and West Siberia

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Y-chromosomal diversity in Europe is clinal and influenced primarily by geography, rather than by language

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Y-chromosomal diversity in the population of Guinea-Bissau: a multiethnic perspective

scientific article published in 2007

Y-chromosome lineages in Cabo Verde Islands witness the diverse geographic origin of its first male settlers

scientific article (publication date: November 2003)