Category: Research
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Ancient DNA HLA typing reveals significant shifts in frequency in Europe since the Neolithic
Mattias and Federico are the co-authors of the new article published in Nature Scientific Reports. Plascencia, A.G., Jakobsson, M. & Sánchez-Quinto, F. Ancient DNA HLA typing reveals significant shifts in frequency in Europe since the Neolithic. Sci Rep 15, 6161 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82449-w Abstract Computational HLA typing has surged as a cost-effective strategy to uncover questions regarding the…
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Investigating population continuity and ghost admixture among ancient genomes
Co-authors from the Jakobsson Lab. The recent paper by McKenna, Bernhardsson, Waxham, Jakobsson and Sjödin (2024) is published in HPGG. Abstract Ancient DNA (aDNA) can prove a valuable resource when investigating the evolutionary relationships between ancient and modern populations. Performing demographic inference using datasets that include aDNA samples however, requires statistical methods that explicitly account…
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Analysis of the abundance of radiocarbon samples as count data
de Navascués, M., Burgarella, C., & Jakobsson, M. (2025). Analysis of the abundance of radiocarbon samples as count data. Peer Community Journal, 5. https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.522 Abstract The analysis of the abundance of radiocarbon samples through time has become a popular method to address questions of demography in archaeology. The history of this approach is marked by the use…
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BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups
Another paper co-authored by people from the Jakobsson Lab has been published in Nature: Breton, G., Barham, L., Mudenda, G., Soodyall, H., Schlebusch, C. M., & Jakobsson, M. (2024). BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups. Nature communications, 15(1), 7307. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50733-y Abstract Sub-equatorial Africa is today inhabited predominantly by Bantu-speaking groups of Western African…
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Human genetic structure in Northwest France provides new insights into West European historical demography
Carro is one of the main co-authors of the paper in Nature Communications: Alves, I., Giemza, J., Blum, M. G., Bernhardsson, C., Chatel, S., Karakachoff, M., … & Dina, C. (2024). Human genetic structure in Northwest France provides new insights into West European historical demography. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6710. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51087-1 Abstract The demographical history of France remains…
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Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers
Magdalena, Mattias and Helena are contributors to the paper: Seersholm, F. V., Sjögren, K. G., Koelman, J., Blank, M., Svensson, E. M., Staring, J., … & Sikora, M. (2024). Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers. Nature, 632(8023), 114-121. Abstract In the period between 5,300 and 4,900 calibrated years before present (cal. bp), populations across large parts of…