Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA

H Ringbauer, Y Huang, A Akbari, S Mallick, I Olalde… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Long DNA segments shared between two individuals, known as identity-by-descent (IBD),
reveal recent genealogical connections. Here we introduce ancIBD, a method for identifying …

The genetic legacy of African Americans from Catoctin furnace

É Harney, S Micheletti, KS Bruwelheide, WA Freyman… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Few African Americans have been able to trace family lineages back to ancestors who died
before the 1870 United States Census, the first in which all Black people were listed by …

Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death

R Hui, CL Scheib, E D'Atanasio, SA Inskip… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The extent of the devastation of the Black Death pandemic (1346–1353) on European
populations is known from documentary sources and its bacterial source illuminated by …

[HTML][HTML] ancIBD-Screening for identity by descent segments in human ancient DNA

H Ringbauer, Y Huang, A Akbari, S Mallick… - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Long DNA sequences shared between two individuals, known as Identical by descent (IBD)
segments, are a powerful signal for identifying close and distant biological relatives because …

Medieval social landscape through the genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death

R Hui, CL Scheib, E D'Atanasio, SA Inskip, C Cessford… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The extent of the devastation of the Black Death pandemic (1346-53) on European
populations is known from documentary sources and its bacterial source illuminated by …

The genetic echo of the Tarim mummies in modern Central Asians

SS Dai, X Sulaiman, J Isakova, WF Xu… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The diversity of Central Asians has been shaped by multiple migrations and cultural
diffusion. Although ancient DNA studies have revealed the demographic changes of the …

Capturing the fusion of two ancestries and kinship structures in Merovingian Flanders

S Sasso, L Saag, R Spros, O Beneker… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
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 …

Autosomal recessive Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy caused by a homozygous variant in DNAJC30 gene

L Mauring, S Puusepp, M Parik, E Roomets… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, Stenton et al.(2021) described a new, autosomal recessive inheritance
pattern of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) caused by missense variants in the …

Evolution and dispersal of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U5 in Northern Europe: insights from an unsupervised learning approach to phylogeography

D Kristjansson, J Bohlin, TT Nguyen, A Jugessur… - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background We combined an unsupervised learning methodology for analyzing
mitogenome sequences with maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetics to make detailed …

[PDF][PDF] Uralic archaeolinguistics

O Vesakoski, E Salmela, H Piezonka - Oxford Handbook of Archaeology …, 2024 - bedlan.net
This chapter considers the Uralic language family in connection with the genetic and cultural
history of Northwest Eurasia. In the north and east, foraging economies have persisted …