Category: Publications
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New insights on cultural dualism and population structure in the Middle Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture on the island of Gotland
Magdalena Fraser and others have published new insights into the Neolithic Funnel-Beaker culture. This multidisciplinary article in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports and revealed intriguing results regarding the genetics, diet, and culture of this ancient human population. Highlights Abstract In recent years it has been shown that the Neolithization of Europe was partly driven by…
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Ancient human DNA: How sequencing the genome of a boy from Ballito Bay changed human history
Carina and Mattias were involved in a commentary article in the South African Journal of Science describing the scientific merits of the genome of a ancient boy from South Africa.
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Patterns of variation in cis-regulatory regions: examining evidence of purifying selection
Thijessen and others from the group highlighted the genomic signatures of purifying selection under consideration of confounding factors such as demography. The results appeared in BMC Genomics. Abstract Background With only 2 % of the human genome consisting of protein coding genes, functionality across the rest of the genome has been the subject of much…
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Population genomics of Mesolithic Scandinavia: Investigating early postglacial migration routes and high-latitude adaptation
A massive team effort has resulted in a new study on Mesolithic Scandinavians published in PLoS Biology. The study reveals that two migration routes built the foundation for a very diverse Mesolithic human population in Scandinavia and also highlights loci under selection in accordance with life in the high North. Author summary The Scandinavian peninsula was…
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Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans
Some of us and the ATLAS of a 1000 Ancient genomes team were involved in a new study published in Current Biology. It investigates the origin of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands (Guanche). By leveraging genomes of 11 ancient Guanche individuals we showed a close relationship of them to extant Northwest Africans and leaving up to…
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Ancient DNA pushes human emergence back
The complete genomes of southern African human remains reveals that modern humans emerged more than 300,000 years ago A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) revealed that southern Africa has an important role to play in writing the history of humankind. A research team from Uppsala University, Sweden, the Universities of…