Category: Research
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Lactase Persistence Alleles Reveal Partial East African Ancestry of Southern African Khoe Pastoralists
In a new study Breton et al. (2014) show how lactase persistence variants tell the story about the ancestry of the Khoe people in southern Africa. Highlights Related content Lactase persistence alleles reveal ancestry of southern African Khoe pastoralists
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Separating ancient DNA from modern day contamination
Our paper “Separating endogenous ancient DNA from modern day contamination in a Siberian Neandertal” by Skoglund et al. (2014) was published in the early edition of PNAS. Significance Strict laboratory precautions against present day human DNA contamination are standard in ancient DNA studies, but contamination is already present inside many ancient human fossils from previous…
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VR Grant for Distinguished Young Researchers
December 10, 2013. The Swedish Research Council’s “Grant for Distinguished Young Researchers” of 18 million SEK is awarded to Mattias Jakobsson. Congratulations!
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Wenner-Gren fellowship goes to Torsten Günther
Torsten Günther is awarded a Wenner-Gren postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations! Wenner-Gren StiftelsernaWenner-Gren Foundations Wenner-Gren Fellow-stipendier förpostdoktoral utbildning
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Mattias Jakobsson awarded Wallenberg Academy Fellow
Mattias Jakobsson is awarded “Wallenberg Academy Fellow”, and receives 7.5 million SEK. Congratulations! Wallenberg Academy Fellows, the career programme for young researchers launched by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in 2012, provides long-term funding for young, promising Swedish and foreign researchers from all academic fields. The programme runs in close cooperation with five royal…
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Dual ancestry of Native Americans
Our collaborative paper “Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans” was published online by Nature. Pontus Skoglund is the second co-author. Abstract The origins of the First Americans remain contentious. Although Native Americans seem to be genetically most closely related to east Asians1,2,3, there is no consensus with regard to which specific…