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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…
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The Atlas of ancient human genomes in Sweden
Riksbankens (the Swedish Central Bank) Jubileumsfond (RJ) granted 35.4 million SEK to our program “The Atlas of ancient human genomes in Sweden”. This is a collaborative program together with Anders Götherström and Jan Storå at Stockholm University.
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New additions to the Jakobsson Lab
Postdoc Torsten Günther and PhD student Thijessen Naidoo joined the group. Welcome!
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Sex identification of ancient remains
July 17, 2013. Our paper by Skoglund et al. (2013) on “Accurate sex identification of ancient human remains using DNA shotgun sequencing” was published by the Journal of Archaeological Science and highlighted by Nature. Highlights Abstract Accurate identification of the biological sex of ancient remains is vital for critically testing hypotheses about social structure in…
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Investigation of population size changes rests on validating the demographic model
Our review-paper Lucie Gattepaile et al. 2013. Inferring population size changes with sequence and SNP data: lessons from human bottlenecks was published by Heredity. Abstract Reconstructing historical variation of population size from sequence and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data is valuable for understanding the evolutionary history of species. Changes in the population size of humans have…
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Mattias Jakobsson receives the Tage Erlander Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Tage Erlander Prize is awarded annually as a reward for outstanding scientific work as a stimulus for continued research, every five years in the following subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry, technology and biology. High-quality popular science efforts are also a merit for the award. Recipients of the award are researchers who have not reached the age…
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The Relationship Between FST and the Frequency of the Most Frequent Allele
A new paper was published (and highlighted) in Genetics. Jakobssen et al. 2013. The relationship between FST and the frequency of the most frequent allele. Genetics, vol. 193, issue 2. Abstract FST is frequently used as a summary of genetic differentiation among groups. It has been suggested that FST depends on the allele frequencies at a locus, as it…
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Anisotropic isolation by distance. A new publication.
A new paper is published. Jay et al. 2013. Anisotropic isolation by distance: the main orientations of human genetic differentiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol.30, issue 3 The cover features one of the figures in the same paper. Abstract Genetic differentiation among human populations is greatly influenced by geography due to the accumulation of local…
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Paper on adaptation and complex African history published in Science
Carina Schlebusch is the first author of the paper “Genomic variation in seven Khoe-San groups reveals adaptation and complex African history”, published in Science. The paper received ample attention by scientific and popular media, e.g.: CBS News, Science News, Nature, Science daily, Spiegel, AAAS, Swedish public television (SVT), Kwela (Afrikaans – television), Swedish radio (SR1, SR2), UNT, DN, Business Day, Diamond Fields Advertiser, Die Burger, Die…
