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

scientific article

18 Europe and western Asia: genetics and population history

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

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A Model for the Dispersal of Modern Humans out of Africa

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

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A Transient Pulse of Genetic Admixture from the Crusaders in the Near East Identified from Ancient Genome Sequences

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

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

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A general linear model-based approach for inferring selection to climate

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2013)

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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An Aboriginal Australian genome reveals separate human dispersals into Asia

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2011)

An invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection in an Anglo-Saxon plague victim

scientific article published on 03 February 2022

An mtDNA perspective of French genetic variation

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Ancestry-Specific Analyses Reveal Differential Demographic Histories and Opposite Selective Pressures in Modern South Asian Populations

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541-750)

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541-750):

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

Ancient human parallel lineages within North America contributed to a coastal expansion

scientific article published in Science

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

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

Beringian standstill and spread of Native American founders

scientific article published in 2007

Brief communication: Effect of nomadic subsistence practices on lactase persistence associated genetic variation in Kuwait

scientific article published on 30 July 2013

Continental-scale genomic analysis suggests shared post-admixture adaptation in the Americas

scientific article published on 01 November 2021

Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences

scientific article

Correction to: The study of human Y chromosome variation through ancient DNA

scholarly article published in Human Genetics

Correction: Traces of Archaic Mitochondrial Lineages Persist in Austronesian-Speaking Formosan Populations

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Corrigendum to “What evidence is there for the existence of individual genes with antagonistic pleiotropic effects?” [Mechanisms of Ageing and Development 126 (2005) 421–429]

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

scientific article published in 2008

Decreased rate of evolution in Y chromosome STR loci of increased size of the repeat unit

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Different population histories of the Mundari- and Mon-Khmer-speaking Austro-Asiatic tribes inferred from the mtDNA 9-bp deletion/insertion polymorphism in Indian populations

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Different population histories of the Mundari- and Mon-Khmer-speaking Austro-Asiatic tribes inferred from the mtDNA 9-bp deletion/insertion polymorphism in Indian populations

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

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 Anglian early Neolithic monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

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 genetic diversity reveals linguistic stratification and complex influences on the Ethiopian gene pool

scientific article (publication date: 13 July 2012)

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

scientific article

Evaluating genotype imputation pipeline for ultra-low coverage ancient genomes

scientific article published on 29 October 2020

Evaluating macroscopic sex estimation methods using genetically sexed archaeological material: The medieval skeletal collection from St John's Divinity School, Cambridge

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Evaluation of the 124-plex SNP typing microarray for forensic testing.

scientific article

Evidence of Early-Stage Selection on EPAS1 and GPR126 Genes in Andean High Altitude Populations

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Evidence of authentic DNA from Danish Viking Age skeletons untouched by humans for 1,000 years

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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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Excavating Y-chromosome haplotype strata in Anatolia

scientific article (publication date: 2004)

Explaining the imperfection of the molecular clock of hominid mitochondria

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Extensive Farming in Estonia Started through a Sex-Biased Migration from the Steppe

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Extensive farming in Estonia started through a sex-biased migration from the Steppe

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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 and phenotypic differentiation of an Andean intermediate altitude population

scientific article published on May 2015

Genetic diversity among ancient Nordic populations

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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 modern human dispersals in South Asia: Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA perspectives: The world through the eyes of two haploid genomes

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Genetic evidence on the origins of Indian caste populations

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Genetic signatures reveal high-altitude adaptation in a set of ethiopian populations ⬇️

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Genome-wide analysis of cold adaptation in indigenous Siberian populations

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Genome-wide evidence of Austronesian-Bantu admixture and cultural reversion in a hunter-gatherer group of Madagascar

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Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

scientific article (publication date: 13 October 2016)

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

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Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific

scientific article (publication date: 3 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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High penetrance of sequencing errors and interpretative shortcomings in mtDNA sequence analysis of LHON patients

scientific article published on 3 November 2006

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

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Identification of Polynesian mtDNA haplogroups in remains of Botocudo Amerindians from Brazil

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Malagasy Genetic Ancestry Comes from an Historical Malay Trading Post in Southeast Borneo

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Maternal ancestry and population history from whole mitochondrial genomes

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Maternal footprints of Southeast Asians in North India

scientific article published on 28 January 2008

Median network analysis of defectively sequenced entire mitochondrial genomes from early and contemporary disease studies

scientific article

Mitochondrial genes and schizophrenia

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Mitochondrial portraits of the Madeira and Açores archipelagos witness different genetic pools of its settlers

scientific article (publication date: December 2003)

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

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Multi-layered population structure in Island Southeast Asians

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Origin and diffusion of mtDNA haplogroup X

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Origin and expansion of haplogroup H, the dominant human mitochondrial DNA lineage in West Eurasia: the Near Eastern and Caucasian perspective.

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Origin and spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7.

scientific article published on 07 April 2017

Osteobiography: The History of the Body as Real Bottom-Line History

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Paleo-Eskimo mtDNA genome reveals matrilineal discontinuity in Greenland

scientific article published on 29 May 2008

Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2023

Patterns of genetic connectedness between modern and medieval Estonian genomes reveal the origins of a major ancestry component of the Finnish population

scientific article published on 18 August 2021

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

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Persistent immune responses induced by a human immunodeficiency virus DNA vaccine delivered in association with electroporation in the skin of nonhuman primates

scientific article published in November 2009

Philippine mitochondrial DNA diversity: a populated viaduct between Taiwan and Indonesia?

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

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Phylogeographic differentiation of mitochondrial DNA in Han Chinese

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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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Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes

scientific article published on 2 October 2019

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

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Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago

scientific article (publication date: 28 July 2009)

Population structure of modern-day Italians reveals patterns of ancient and archaic ancestries in Southern Europe

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Positive selection of AS3MT to arsenic water in Andean populations

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

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

scientific article published in August 2005

Quality assessment of DNA sequence data: autopsy of a mis-sequenced mtDNA population sample.

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Questioning Evidence for Recombination in Human Mitochondrial DNA

scientific article published in Science

Rare mtDNA haplogroups and genetic differences in rich and poor Danish Iron-Age villages

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Reconstructing the origin of Andaman Islanders

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Reconstruction of patrilineages and matrilineages of Samaritans and other Israeli populations from Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA sequence variation

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Refining the Use of Linkage Disequilibrium as a Robust Signature of Selective Sweeps

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Reply to Cordaux and Stoneking.

scientific article published in June 2003

Reply to Winters

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Response to Giem

scientific article published in February 2018

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 Andean adaptive toolkit to counteract high altitude maladaptation: genome-wide and phenotypic analysis of the Collas

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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 Genomic Impact of European Colonization of the Americas

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

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 effective mutation rate at Y chromosome short tandem repeats, with application to human population-divergence time

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The emergence of Y-chromosome haplogroup J1e among Arabic-speaking populations

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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 influence of natural barriers in shaping the genetic structure of Maharashtra populations

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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 role of selection in the evolution of human mitochondrial genomes

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The study of human Y chromosome variation through ancient DNA.

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The unresolved location of Otzi's mtDNA within haplogroup K.

scientific article published in April 2007

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

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To trust or not to trust an idiosyncratic mitochondrial data set.

scientific article published on May 2003

Traces of archaic mitochondrial lineages persist in Austronesian-speaking Formosan populations

scientific article published in August 2005

Traces of sub-Saharan and Middle Eastern lineages in Indian Muslim populations

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Tracing the route of modern humans out of Africa by using 225 human genome sequences from Ethiopians and Egyptians

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Two sources of the Russian patrilineal heritage in their Eurasian context

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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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Use of y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA population structure in tracing human migrations

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Validation of microarray-based resequencing of 93 worldwide mitochondrial genomes

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Validity of visceral adiposity estimates from DXA against MRI in Kuwaiti men and women

scientific article published on 09 January 2017

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

West Asian sources of the Eurasian component in Ethiopians: a reassessment

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

What evidence is there for the existence of individual genes with antagonistic pleiotropic effects?

scientific article

Y Chromosome Sequences Reveal a Short Beringian Standstill, Rapid Expansion, and early Population structure of Native American Founders

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Y chromosomal heritage of Croatian population and its island isolates

scientific article (publication date: July 2003)

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

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Y-chromosome lineages from Portugal, Madeira and Açores record elements of Sephardim and Berber ancestry

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

scientific article (publication date: November 2003)

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