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Authors (1)Thomas Booth Archaeological Dialogues Published 1 June 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details A paleogenomic reconstruction of the deep population history of the Andes Authors (50) Nathan Nakatsuka Iosif Lazaridis Chiara BarbieriPontus Skoglund Nadin Rohland Swapan Mallick[...] Johannes Krause Wolfgang Haak Bastien Llamas David Reich Lars Fehren-Schmitz Cell Published 28 May 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes Authors (21)Anders Bergstrom Shane A McCarthy Ruoyun Hui Mohamed A Almarri Qasim Ayub Petr Danecek[...]Pontus Skoglund Aylwyn Scally Yali Xue Richard Durbin Chris Tyler-Smith Science Published 20 March 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details An ancient baboon genome demonstrates long-term population continuity in southern Africa Authors (11) Iain Mathieson Federico Abascal Lasse VinnerPontus Skoglund Cristina Pomilla Peter Mitchell Charles Arthur Deepti Gurdasani Eske Willerslev Manj S Sandhu Genevieve Dewar Genome Biology and Evolution Published 1 April 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details Global phylogeographic and admixture patterns in grey wolves and genetic legacy of an ancient Siberian lineage Authors (14) Małgorzata Pilot Andre E Moura Innokentiy M Okhlopkov Nikolay V Mamaev Abdulaziz N Alagaili Osama B Mohammed[...] Natia Kopaliani Elena Tsingarska Miha KrofelPontus Skoglund Wiesław Bogdanowicz Scientific Reports Published 22 November 2019 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details Genomic approaches reveal an endemic subpopulation of gray wolves in Southern China Authors (12) Guo-Dong Wang Ming Zhang Xuan Wang Melinda A Yang Peng Cao Feng Liu[...] Xiaotian FengPontus Skoglund Lu Wang Qiaomei Fu Ya-Ping Zhang iScience Published 25 October 2019 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America Authors (35) Pavel Flegontov N Ezgi Altınışık Piya Changmai Nadin Rohland Swapan Mallick Nicole Adamski[...] Dennis H O'Rourke Johannes Krause Ron Pinhasi David Reich Stephan Schiffels Nature Published 13 June 2019 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details Revisiting ancient DNA insights into the human history of the Pacific Islands Authors (7) M Spriggs F Valentin S Bedford R PinhasiPontus Skoglund D Reich M Lipson Archaeology in Oceania Published 1 April 2019 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details Reconstructing the deep population history of Central and South America Authors (72) Cosimo Posth Nathan Nakatsuka Iosif LazaridisPontus Skoglund Swapan Mallick Thiseas C Lamnidis[...] Douglas J Kennett André Strauss Lars Fehren-Schmitz Johannes Krause David Reich Cell Published 15 November 2018 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations Authors (36) Kristiina Tambets Bayazit Yunusbayev Georgi Hudjashov Anne-Mai Ilumäe Siiri Rootsi Terhi Honkola[...] Ludmila P Osipova Mikhail Voevoda Richard Villems Toomas Kivisild Mait Metspalu Genome Biology Published 21 September 2018 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details No evidence for unknown archaic ancestry in South Asia Authors (4)Pontus Skoglund Swapan Mallick Nick Patterson David Reich Nature Genetics Published 1 May 2018 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details Pagination First page First Previous page Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page Next Last page Last Share the page Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Email
Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths Authors (22) Tom van der Valk Patrícia Pečnerová David Díez-Del-MolinoAnders Bergstrom Jonas Oppenheimer Stefanie Hartmann[...]Pontus Skoglund Michael Hofreiter Adrian M Lister Anders Götherström Love Dalén Nature Published 11 March 2021 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Ancient DNA analysis Authors (11) L Orlando R AllabyPontus Skoglund C Der Sarkissian PW Stockhammer MC Ávila-Arcos Q Fu J Krause E Willerslev AC Stone C Warinner Nature Reviews Methods Primers Published 11 February 2021 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Origins of modern human ancestry Authors (5)Anders Bergstrom Chris StringerMateja Hajdinjak Eleanor ML ScerriPontus Skoglund Nature Published 11 February 2021 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Archaeological Central American maize genomes suggest ancient gene flow from South America Authors (10) Logan Kistler Heather B Thakar Amber M VanDerwarker Alejandra DomicAnders Bergstrom Richard J George Thomas K Harper Robin G Allaby Kenneth Hirth Douglas J Kennett Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA Published 29 December 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs Authors (56)Anders Bergstrom Laurent Frantz Ryan Schmidt Erik Ersmark Ophelie Lebrasseur Linus Girdland-Flink[...] Anna Linderholm Love Dalén Ron Pinhasi Greger LarsonPontus Skoglund Science Published 30 October 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Early Pleistocene origin and extensive intra-species diversity of the extinct cave lion Authors (18) David WG Stanton Federica Alberti Valery Plotnikov Semyon Androsov Semyon Grigoriev Sergey Fedorov[...] Mietje Germonpré Michael Hofreiter Wilfried RosendahlPontus Skoglund Love Dalén Scientific Reports Published 28 July 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Arctic-adapted dogs emerged at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition Authors (35) Mikkel-Holger S Sinding Shyam Gopalakrishnan Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal Marc de Manuel Vladimir V Pitulko Lukas Kuderna[...] Lutz Bachmann Øystein Wiig Tomas Marques-Bonet Anders J Hansen M Thomas P Gilbert Science Published 26 June 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave Authors (18) Fabrizio Mafessoni Steffi Grote Cesare de Filippo Viviane Slon Kseniya A Kolobova Bence Viola[...] Matthias Meyer Janet Kelso Benjamin Peter Kay Prüfer Svante Pääbo Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA Published 30 June 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Population structure, stratification, and introgression of human structural variation Authors (10) Mohamed A AlmarriAnders Bergstrom Javier Prado-Martinez Fengtang Yang Beiyuan Fu Alistair S Dunham Yuan Chen Matthew E Hurles Chris Tyler-Smith Yali Xue Cell Published 9 July 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Imagined biodeterminism? Authors (1)Thomas Booth Archaeological Dialogues Published 1 June 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
A paleogenomic reconstruction of the deep population history of the Andes Authors (50) Nathan Nakatsuka Iosif Lazaridis Chiara BarbieriPontus Skoglund Nadin Rohland Swapan Mallick[...] Johannes Krause Wolfgang Haak Bastien Llamas David Reich Lars Fehren-Schmitz Cell Published 28 May 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes Authors (21)Anders Bergstrom Shane A McCarthy Ruoyun Hui Mohamed A Almarri Qasim Ayub Petr Danecek[...]Pontus Skoglund Aylwyn Scally Yali Xue Richard Durbin Chris Tyler-Smith Science Published 20 March 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
An ancient baboon genome demonstrates long-term population continuity in southern Africa Authors (11) Iain Mathieson Federico Abascal Lasse VinnerPontus Skoglund Cristina Pomilla Peter Mitchell Charles Arthur Deepti Gurdasani Eske Willerslev Manj S Sandhu Genevieve Dewar Genome Biology and Evolution Published 1 April 2020 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Global phylogeographic and admixture patterns in grey wolves and genetic legacy of an ancient Siberian lineage Authors (14) Małgorzata Pilot Andre E Moura Innokentiy M Okhlopkov Nikolay V Mamaev Abdulaziz N Alagaili Osama B Mohammed[...] Natia Kopaliani Elena Tsingarska Miha KrofelPontus Skoglund Wiesław Bogdanowicz Scientific Reports Published 22 November 2019 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Genomic approaches reveal an endemic subpopulation of gray wolves in Southern China Authors (12) Guo-Dong Wang Ming Zhang Xuan Wang Melinda A Yang Peng Cao Feng Liu[...] Xiaotian FengPontus Skoglund Lu Wang Qiaomei Fu Ya-Ping Zhang iScience Published 25 October 2019 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America Authors (35) Pavel Flegontov N Ezgi Altınışık Piya Changmai Nadin Rohland Swapan Mallick Nicole Adamski[...] Dennis H O'Rourke Johannes Krause Ron Pinhasi David Reich Stephan Schiffels Nature Published 13 June 2019 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Revisiting ancient DNA insights into the human history of the Pacific Islands Authors (7) M Spriggs F Valentin S Bedford R PinhasiPontus Skoglund D Reich M Lipson Archaeology in Oceania Published 1 April 2019 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Reconstructing the deep population history of Central and South America Authors (72) Cosimo Posth Nathan Nakatsuka Iosif LazaridisPontus Skoglund Swapan Mallick Thiseas C Lamnidis[...] Douglas J Kennett André Strauss Lars Fehren-Schmitz Johannes Krause David Reich Cell Published 15 November 2018 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations Authors (36) Kristiina Tambets Bayazit Yunusbayev Georgi Hudjashov Anne-Mai Ilumäe Siiri Rootsi Terhi Honkola[...] Ludmila P Osipova Mikhail Voevoda Richard Villems Toomas Kivisild Mait Metspalu Genome Biology Published 21 September 2018 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details
No evidence for unknown archaic ancestry in South Asia Authors (4)Pontus Skoglund Swapan Mallick Nick Patterson David Reich Nature Genetics Published 1 May 2018 Crick labsPontus SkoglundFull details