Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences

GD Poznik, Y Xue, FL Mendez, TF Willems, A Massaia… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We report the sequences of 1,244 human Y chromosomes randomly ascertained from 26
worldwide populations by the 1000 Genomes Project. We discovered more than 65,000 …

The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

MA Spyrou, L Musralina, GA Gnecchi Ruscone… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the medieval Black Death pandemic (ad 1346–1353) has been a topic of
continuous investigation because of the pandemic's extensive demographic impact and long …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut

MC Wibowo, Z Yang, M Borry, A Hübner, KD Huang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Loss of gut microbial diversity,,,,–in industrial populations is associated with chronic
diseases, underscoring the importance of studying our ancestral gut microbiome. However …

Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria

JJ Hublin, N Sirakov, V Aldeias, S Bailey, E Bard… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe witnessed the replacement
and partial absorption of local Neanderthal populations by Homo sapiens populations of …

HaploGrep 2: mitochondrial haplogroup classification in the era of high-throughput sequencing

H Weissensteiner, D Pacher… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) profiles can be classified into phylogenetic clusters
(haplogroups), which is of great relevance for evolutionary, forensic and medical genetics …

Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory

C Gamba, ER Jones, MD Teasdale… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Great Hungarian Plain was a crossroads of cultural transformations that have
shaped European prehistory. Here we analyse a 5,000-year transect of human genomes …

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

M Raghavan, M Steinrücken, K Harris, S Schiffels… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge …

Haplogrep 3-an interactive haplogroup classification and analysis platform

S Schönherr, H Weissensteiner… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Over the last decade, Haplogrep has become a standard tool for haplogroup classification in
the field of human mitochondrial DNA and is widely used by medical, forensic, and …

Pleistocene mitochondrial genomes suggest a single major dispersal of non-Africans and a Late Glacial population turnover in Europe

C Posth, G Renaud, A Mittnik, DG Drucker, H Rougier… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of
separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models …

Schmutzi: estimation of contamination and endogenous mitochondrial consensus calling for ancient DNA

G Renaud, V Slon, AT Duggan, J Kelso - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Ancient DNA is typically highly degraded with appreciable cytosine deamination, and
contamination with present-day DNA often complicates the identification of endogenous …