Category: Research
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Early farmers of Anatolia
A new publication (Kilinç et al. 2016. The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia) sheds light into the […]
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New approach to tracking population changes
A new publication by Lucie Gattepaille, Torsten Günther and Mattias Jakobsson describes a new approach to investigate population size changes […]
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Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa
A new article from the Jakobsson Lab members appeared in Scientific Reports. Hervella, M., Svensson, E., Alberdi, A. et al. The mitogenome […]
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Anatolia as the source of the European Neolithic gene pool
A new article from the lab appeared in Current Biology. Omrak et al. 2016. Genomic Evidence Establishes Anatolia as the […]
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Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques
The research described in the article by Günther et al. (2015) in PNAS reveals that early Iberian farmers are the […]
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Genomic Diversity and Admixture Differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian Foragers and Farmers
An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University reports a breakthrough in understanding the demographic history […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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