Tag: human past
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Love Evolution! Darwin Day 2018
A group from the Jakobsson Lab (Arielle, Nina, James, Tatiana, Alex, Luciana and Gwenna) participated in the Love Evolution! Darwin Day 2018. We prepared an interactive station at which children learned more about ancient DNA and the stories we tell from its analyses. Some impressions of the fun event can be seen here.
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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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Human Diversity Network Meeting
We organized a meeting on Human diversity with special focus on genetics taking place on Monday, Feb. 5th 2018 here at Uppsala University. Find the schedule and more detailed information below.
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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…