Stephan Schiffels

Population Genetics – Computational Methods - Human History

Publications

Note: All my publications can also be found on Google Scholar

High-coverage genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry. Cell Genomics. Published August 16, 2023.

Authors: Ke Wang, Kay Prüfer, Ben Krause-Kyora, Ainash Childebayeva, Verena J Schuenemann, Valentina Coia, Frank Maixner, Albert Zink, Stephan Schiffels and Johannes Krause

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Major Confronting historical legacies of biological anthropology in South Africa-Restitution, redress and community-centered science: The Sutherland Nine. PloS one. Published May 24, 2023.

Authors: Victoria E Gibbon, Loretta Feris, Joscha Gretzinger, Kathryn Smith, Simon Hall, Nigel Penn, Tinashe E M Mutsvangwa, Michaela Heale, Devin A Finaughty, Yvonne W Karanja, Jan Esterhuyse, Daniël Kotze, Nina Barnes, Geney Gunston, Je'nine May, Johannes Krause, Caroline M Wilkinson, Stephan Schiffels, Doreen Februarie, Sianne Alves and Judith C Sealy

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Lead Highlight Estimating human mobility in Holocene Western Eurasia with large-scale ancient genomic data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Published February 28, 2023.

Authors: Clemens Schmid and Stephan Schiffels

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Lead Highlight 4000-year-old hair from the Middle Nile highlights unusual ancient DNA degradation pattern and a potential source of early eastern Africa pastoralists. Scientific reports. Published December 3, 2022.

Authors: Ke Wang, Madeleine Bleasdale, Charles Le Moyne, Cacilia Freund, Johannes Krause, Nicole Boivin and Stephan Schiffels

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Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century. Cell. Published November 22, 2022.

Authors: Shamam Waldman, Daniel Backenroth, Éadaoin Harney, Stefan Flohr, Nadia C Neff, Gina M Buckley, Hila Fridman, Ali Akbari, Nadin Rohland, Swapan Mallick, Iñigo Olalde, Leo Cooper, Ariel Lomes, Joshua Lipson, Jorge Cano Nistal, Jin Yu, Nir Barzilai, Inga Peter, Gil Atzmon, Harry Ostrer, Todd Lencz, Yosef E Maruvka, Maike Lämmerhirt, Alexander Beider, Leonard V Rutgers, Virginie Renson, Keith M Prufer, Stephan Schiffels, Harald Ringbauer, Karin Sczech, Shai Carmi and David Reich

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Lead Transformations in early medieval England. Current Archaeology. Published November 5, 2022.

Authors: Joscha Gretzinger and Stephan Schiffels

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Lead A glimpse into darkness: Population genetics of the European middle ages. New Narratives for the First Millennium AD? : Alte und neue Perspektiven der archäologischen Forschung zum 1. Jahrtausend n. Chr.. Published November, 2022.

Authors: Joscha Gretzinger and Stephan Schiffels

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Demes: a standard format for demographic models. Genetics. Published November 1, 2022.

Authors: Graham Gower, Aaron P Ragsdale, Gertjan Bisschop, Ryan N Gutenkunst, Matthew Hartfield, Ekaterina Noskova, Stephan Schiffels, Travis J Struck, Jerome Kelleher and Kevin R Thornton

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Lead Highlight The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool. Nature. Published September 21, 2022.

Authors: Joscha Gretzinger, Duncan Sayer, Pierre Justeau, Eveline Altena, Maria Pala, Katharina Dulias, Ceiridwen J Edwards, Susanne Jodoin, Laura Lacher, Susanna Sabin, Åshild J Vågene, Wolfgang Haak, S Sunna Ebenesersdóttir, Kristjan H S Moore, Rita Radzeviciute, Kara Schmidt, Selina Brace, Martina Abenhus Bager, Nick Patterson, Luka Papac, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Kimberly Callan, Éadaoin Harney, Lora Iliev, Ann Marie Lawson, Megan Michel, Kristin Stewardson, Fatma Zalzala, Nadin Rohland, Stefanie Kappelhoff-Beckmann, Frank Both, Daniel Winger, Daniel Neumann, Lars Saalow, Stefan Krabath, Sophie Beckett, Melanie Van Twest, Neil Faulkner, Chris Read, Tabatha Barton, Joanna Caruth, John Hines, Ben Krause-Kyora, Ursula Warnke, Verena J Schuenemann, Ian Barnes, Hanna Dahlström, Jane Jark Clausen, Andrew Richardson, Elizabeth Popescu, Natasha Dodwell, Stuart Ladd, Tom Phillips, Richard Mortimer, Faye Sayer, Diana Swales, Allison Stewart, Dominic Powlesland, Robert Kenyon, Lilian Ladle, Christina Peek, Silke Grefen-Peters, Paola Ponce, Robin Daniels, Cecily Spall, Jennifer Woolcock, Andy M Jones, Amy V Roberts, Robert Symmons, Anooshka C Rawden, Alan Cooper, Kirsten I Bos, Tom Booth, Hannes Schroeder, Mark G Thomas, Agnar Helgason, Martin B Richards, David Reich, Johannes Krause and Stephan Schiffels

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Major Erkenntnisse zur frühmittelalterlichen Migrationsgeschichte Nordwesteuropas aus genetischen Analysen. Berichte aus dem Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg. Published July 1, 2022.

Authors: Stephan Schiffels and Joscha Gretzinger

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Missing lactase persistence in Late Iron Age Central Europe. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt. Published March, 2022.

Authors: Ole Warnberg, Corina Knipper, Brigitte Roeder, Guido Lassau, Nobert Spichtig, Peter C Ramsl, Friederike Novotny, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Martin Schönfelder, Christopher F E Pare, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Jörg Schibler, Stephan Schiffels, Kurt W Alt and Sandra L Pichler

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Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines. Nature. Published October 20, 2021.

Authors: Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, David Anthony, Hiba Babiker, Eszter Bánffy, Thomas Booth, Patricia Capone, Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee, Stefanie Eisenmann, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Michael Frachetti, Ricardo Fujita, Catherine J Frieman, Qiaomei Fu, Victoria Gibbon, Wolfgang Haak, Mateja Hajdinjak, Kerstin P Hofmann, Brian Holguin, Takeshi Inomata, Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama, William Keegan, Janet Kelso, Johannes Krause, Ganesan Kumaresan, Chapurukha Kusimba, Sibel Kusimba, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Bastien Llamas, Scott MacEachern, Swapan Mallick, Hirofumi Matsumura, Ana Y Morales-Arce, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Veena Mushrif-Tripathy, Nathan Nakatsuka, Rodrigo Nores, Christine Ogola, Mercedes Okumura, Nick Patterson, Ron Pinhasi, Samayamantri P R Prasad, Mary E Prendergast, Jose Luis Punzo, David Reich, Rikai Sawafuji, Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stephan Schiffels, Jakob Sedig, Svetlana Shnaider, Kendra Sirak, Pontus Skoglund, Viviane Slon, Meradeth Snow, Marie Soressi, Matthew Spriggs, Philipp W Stockhammer, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Vera Tiesler, Ray Tobler, Chuan-Chao Wang, Christina Warinner, Surangi Yasawardene and Muhammad Zahir

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Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution. Science. Published October 8, 2021.

Authors: Arthur Kocher, Luka Papac, Rodrigo Barquera, Felix M Key, Maria A Spyrou, Ron Hübler, Adam B Rohrlach, Franziska Aron, Raphaela Stahl, Antje Wissgott, Florian van Bömmel, Maria Pfefferkorn, Alissa Mittnik, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Gunnar U Neumann, Maïté Rivollat, Marieke S van de Loosdrecht, Kerttu Majander, Rezeda I Tukhbatova, Lyazzat Musralina, Ayshin Ghalichi, Sandra Penske, Susanna Sabin, Megan Michel, Joscha Gretzinger, Elizabeth A Nelson, Tiago Ferraz, Kathrin Nägele, Cody Parker, Marcel Keller, Evelyn K Guevara, Michal Feldman, Stefanie Eisenmann, Eirini Skourtanioti, Karen Giffin, Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone, Susanne Friederich, Vittoria Schimmenti, Valery Khartanovich, Marina K Karapetian, Mikhail S Chaplygin, Vladimir V Kufterin, Aleksandr A Khokhlov, Andrey A Chizhevsky, Dmitry A Stashenkov, Anna F Kochkina, Cristina Tejedor-Rodríguez, Íñigo García-Martínez de Lagrán, Héctor Arcusa-Magallón, Rafael Garrido-Pena, José Ignacio Royo-Guillén, Jan Nováček, Stéphane Rottier, Sacha Kacki, Sylvie Saintot, Elena Kaverzneva, Andrej B Belinskiy, Petr Velemínský, Petr Limburský, Michal Kostka, Louise Loe, Elizabeth Popescu, Rachel Clarke, Alice Lyons, Richard Mortimer, Antti Sajantila, Yadira Chinique de Armas, Silvia Teresita Hernandez Godoy, Diana I Hernández-Zaragoza, Jessica Pearson, Didier Binder, Philippe Lefranc, Anatoly R Kantorovich, Vladimir E Maslov, Luca Lai, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Jessica F Beckett, Michaela Langová, Alžběta Danielisová, Tara Ingman, Gabriel García Atiénzar, Maria Paz de Miguel Ibáñez, Alejandro Romero, Alessandra Sperduti, Sophie Beckett, Susannah J Salter, Emma D Zilivinskaya, Dmitry V Vasil'ev, Kristin von Heyking, Richard L Burger, Lucy C Salazar, Luc Amkreutz, Masnav Navruzbekov, Eva Rosenstock, Carmen Alonso-Fernández, Vladimir Slavchev, Alexey A Kalmykov, Biaslan Ch Atabiev, Elena Batieva, Micaela Alvarez Calmet, Bastien Llamas, Michael Schultz, Raiko Krauß, Javier Jiménez-Echevarría, Michael Francken, Svetlana Shnaider, Peter de Knijff, Eveline Altena, Katrien Van de Vijver, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Tiffiny A Tung, Sandra Lösch, Maria Dobrovolskaya, Nikolaj Makarov, Chris Read, Melanie Van Twest, Claudia Sagona, Peter C Ramsl, Murat Akar, K Aslihan Yener, Eduardo Carmona Ballestero, Francesco Cucca, Vittorio Mazzarello, Pilar Utrilla, Kurt Rademaker, Eva Fernández-Domínguez, Douglas Baird, Patrick Semal, Lourdes Márquez-Morfín, Mirjana Roksandic, Hubert Steiner, Domingo Carlos Salazar-García, Natalia Shishlina, Yilmaz Selim Erdal, Fredrik Hallgren, Yavor Boyadzhiev, Kamen Boyadzhiev, Mario Küßner, Duncan Sayer, Päivi Onkamo, Robin Skeates, Manuel Rojo-Guerra, Alexandra Buzhilova, Elmira Khussainova, Leyla B Djansugurova, Arman Z Beisenov, Zainolla Samashev, Ken Massy, Marcello Mannino, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Kristiina Mannermaa, Oleg Balanovsky, Marie-France Deguilloux, Sabine Reinhold, Svend Hansen, Egor P Kitov, Miroslav Dobeš, Michal Ernée, Harald Meller, Kurt W Alt, Kay Prüfer, Christina Warinner, Stephan Schiffels, Philipp W Stockhammer, Kirsten Bos, Cosimo Posth, Alexander Herbig, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause and Denise Kühnert

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Dynamic changes in genomic and social structures in third millennium BCE central Europe. Science advances. Published August 25, 2021.

Authors: Luka Papac, Michal Ernée, Miroslav Dobeš, Michaela Langová, Adam B Rohrlach, Franziska Aron, Gunnar U Neumann, Maria A Spyrou, Nadin Rohland, Petr Velemínský, Martin Kuna, Hana Brzobohatá, Brendan Culleton, David Daněček, Alžběta Danielisová, Miluše Dobisíková, Josef Hložek, Douglas J Kennett, Jana Klementová, Michal Kostka, Petr Krištuf, Milan Kuchařík, Jana Kuljavceva Hlavová, Petr Limburský, Drahomíra Malyková, Lucia Mattiello, Monika Pecinovská, Katarína Petriščáková, Erika Průchová, Petra Stránská, Lubor Smejtek, Jaroslav Špaček, Radka Šumberová, Ondřej Švejcar, Martin Trefný, Miloš Vávra, Jan Kolář, Volker Heyd, Johannes Krause, Ron Pinhasi, David Reich, Stephan Schiffels and Wolfgang Haak

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Lead Reconstructing genetic histories and social organisation in Neolithic and Bronze Age Croatia. Scientific reports. Published August 18, 2021.

Authors: Suzanne Freilich, Harald Ringbauer, Dženi Los, Mario Novak, Dinko Tresić Pavičić, Stephan Schiffels and Ron Pinhasi

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Major Guidelines: Care of Human Remains in Museums and Collections. Deutscher Museumsbund e.V.. Published June, 2021.

Authors: Wiebke Ahrndt, Larissa Förster, Sarah Fründt, Michael Geißdorf, Diana Gabler, Bernhard Heeb, Christian Lenk, Susanne Roeßiger, Stephan Schiffels, Carola Thielecke, Hilke Thode-Arora, Andreas Winkelmann, Edward} {Halealoha Ayau of Pana`ewa, Michael Pickering, Alma Mekondjo Nankela, Jeremy Silvester and Anne Wesche

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Major bleiglas: An R package for interpolation and visualisation of spatiotemporal data with 3D tessellation. The Journal of Open Source Software. Published April 10, 2021.

Authors: Clemens Schmid and Stephan Schiffels

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Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia. Nature. Published March 18, 2021.

Authors: Chuan-Chao Wang, Hui-Yuan Yeh, Alexander N Popov, Hu-Qin Zhang, Hirofumi Matsumura, Kendra Sirak, Olivia Cheronet, Alexey Kovalev, Nadin Rohland, Alexander M Kim, Swapan Mallick, Rebecca Bernardos, Dashtseveg Tumen, Jing Zhao, Yi-Chang Liu, Jiun-Yu Liu, Matthew Mah, Ke Wang, Zhao Zhang, Nicole Adamski, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Kimberly Callan, Francesca Candilio, Kellie Sara Duffett Carlson, Brendan J Culleton, Laurie Eccles, Suzanne Freilich, Denise Keating, Ann Marie Lawson, Kirsten Mandl, Megan Michel, Jonas Oppenheimer, Kadir Toykan Özdoğan, Kristin Stewardson, Shaoqing Wen, Shi Yan, Fatma Zalzala, Richard Chuang, Ching-Jung Huang, Hana Looh, Chung-Ching Shiung, Yuri G Nikitin, Andrei V Tabarev, Alexey A Tishkin, Song Lin, Zhou-Yong Sun, Xiao-Ming Wu, Tie-Lin Yang, Xi Hu, Liang Chen, Hua Du, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Enkhbayar Mijiddorj, Diimaajav Erdenebaatar, Tumur-Ochir Iderkhangai, Erdene Myagmar, Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama, Masato Nishino, Ken-Ichi Shinoda, Olga A Shubina, Jianxin Guo, Wangwei Cai, Qiongying Deng, Longli Kang, Dawei Li, Dongna Li, Rong Lin, Nini , Rukesh Shrestha, Ling-Xiang Wang, Lanhai Wei, Guangmao Xie, Hongbing Yao, Manfei Zhang, Guanglin He, Xiaomin Yang, Rong Hu, Martine Robbeets, Stephan Schiffels, Douglas J Kennett, Li Jin, Hui Li, Johannes Krause, Ron Pinhasi and David Reich

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Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa. Nature communications. Published January 27, 2021.

Authors: Madeleine Bleasdale, Kristine K Richter, Anneke Janzen, Samantha Brown, Ashley Scott, Jana Zech, Shevan Wilkin, Ke Wang, Stephan Schiffels, Jocelyne Desideri, Marie Besse, Jacques Reinold, Mohamed Saad, Hiba Babiker, Robert C Power, Emmanuel Ndiema, Christine Ogola, Fredrick K Manthi, Muhammad Zahir, Michael Petraglia, Christian Trachsel, Paolo Nanni, Jonas Grossmann, Jessica Hendy, Alison Crowther, Patrick Roberts, Steven T Goldstein and Nicole Boivin

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A Dynamic 6,000-Year Genetic History of Eurasia's Eastern Steppe. Cell. Published November 5, 2020.

Authors: Choongwon Jeong, Ke Wang, Shevan Wilkin, William Timothy Treal Taylor, Bryan K Miller, Jan H Bemmann, Raphaela Stahl, Chelsea Chiovelli, Florian Knolle, Sodnom Ulziibayar, Dorjpurev Khatanbaatar, Diimaajav Erdenebaatar, Ulambayar Erdenebat, Ayudai Ochir, Ganbold Ankhsanaa, Chuluunkhuu Vanchigdash, Battuga Ochir, Chuluunbat Munkhbayar, Dashzeveg Tumen, Alexey Kovalev, Nikolay Kradin, Bilikto A Bazarov, Denis A Miyagashev, Prokopiy B Konovalov, Elena Zhambaltarova, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels, Johannes Krause, Nicole Boivin, Myagmar Erdene, Jessica Hendy and Christina Warinner

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Lead Review and Assessment of Performance of Genomic Inference Methods based on the Sequentially Markovian Coalescent. Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology. Published November 3, 2020.

Authors: Stephan Schiffels

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Lead Report on Genetic Analyses of Iron Age Samples from Slovakia. Diversity of Male Identities in early and Middle La Tène Period Cemeteries in Central Europe. Published November, 2020.

Authors: Joscha Gretzinger and Stephan Schiffels

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Lead Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa. Science Advances. Published June 1, 2020.

Authors: Ke Wang, Steven Goldstein, Madeleine Bleasdale, Bernard Clist, Koen Bostoen, Paul Bakwa-Lufu, Laura T Buck, Alison Crowther, Alioune Dème, Roderick J McIntosh, Julio Mercader, Christine Ogola, Robert C Power, Elizabeth Sawchuk, Peter Robertshaw, Edwin N Wilmsen, Michael Petraglia, Emmanuel Ndiema, Fredrick K Manthi, Johannes Krause, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin and Stephan Schiffels

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Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers. Science Advances. Published May 1, 2020.

Authors: Maïté Rivollat, Choongwon Jeong, Stephan Schiffels, İşil Küçükkalıpçı, Marie-Hélène Pemonge, Adam Benjamin Rohrlach, Kurt W Alt, Didier Binder, Susanne Friederich, Emmanuel Ghesquière, Detlef Gronenborn, Luc Laporte, Philippe Lefranc, Harald Meller, Hélène Réveillas, Eva Rosenstock, Stéphane Rottier, Chris Scarre, Ludovic Soler, Joachim Wahl, Johannes Krause, Marie-France Deguilloux and Wolfgang Haak

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Ancient genomes reveal social and genetic structure of Late Neolithic Switzerland. Nature Communications. Published April 20, 2020.

Authors: Anja Furtwängler, A B Rohrlach, Thiseas C Lamnidis, Luka Papac, Gunnar U Neumann, Inga Siebke, Ella Reiter, Noah Steuri, Jürgen Hald, Anthony Denaire, Bernadette Schnitzler, Joachim Wahl, Marianne Ramstein, Verena J Schuenemann, Philipp W Stockhammer, Albert Hafner, Sandra Lösch, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels and Johannes Krause

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Genomic and dietary transitions during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic in Sicily. bioRxiv. Published March 12, 2020.

Authors: Marieke S van de Loosdrecht, Marcello A Mannino, Sahra Talamo, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Cosimo Posth, Franziska Aron, Guido Brandt, Marta Burri, Cäcilia Freund, Rita Radzeviciute, Raphaela Stahl, Antje Wissgott, Lysann Klausnitzer, Sarah Nagel, Matthias Meyer, Antonio Tagliacozzo, Marcello Piperno, Sebastiano Tusa, Carmine Collina, Vittoria Schimmenti, Rosaria Di Salvo, Kay Prüfer, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Stephan Schiffels, Choongwon Jeong, Wolfgang Haak and Johannes Krause

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Lead Highlight Tracking human population structure through time from whole genome sequences. PLoS genetics. Published March 9, 2020.

Authors: Ke Wang, Iain Mathieson, Jared O'Connell and Stephan Schiffels

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Lead MSMC and MSMC2: The Multiple Sequentially Markovian Coalescent. Statistical Population Genomics. Published January 24, 2020.

Authors: Stephan Schiffels and Ke Wang

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Major Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe. Science. Published November 8, 2019.

Authors: Alissa Mittnik, Ken Massy, Corina Knipper, Fabian Wittenborn, Ronny Friedrich, Saskia Pfrengle, Marta Burri, Nadine Carlichi-Witjes, Heidi Deeg, Anja Furtwängler, Michaela Harbeck, Kristin von Heyking, Catharina Kociumaka, Isil Kucukkalipci, Susanne Lindauer, Stephanie Metz, Anja Staskiewicz, Andreas Thiel, Joachim Wahl, Wolfgang Haak, Ernst Pernicka, Stephan Schiffels, Philipp W Stockhammer and Johannes Krause

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Uganda Genome Resource Enables Insights into Population History and Genomic Discovery in Africa. Cell. Published October 31, 2019.

Authors: Deepti Gurdasani, Tommy Carstensen, Segun Fatumo, Guanjie Chen, Chris S Franklin, Javier Prado-Martinez, Heleen Bouman, Federico Abascal, Marc Haber, Ioanna Tachmazidou, Iain Mathieson, Kenneth Ekoru, Marianne K DeGorter, Rebecca N Nsubuga, Chris Finan, Eleanor Wheeler, Li Chen, David N Cooper, Stephan Schiffels, Yuan Chen, Graham R S Ritchie, Martin O Pollard, Mary D Fortune, Alex J Mentzer, Erik Garrison, Anders Bergström, Konstantinos Hatzikotoulas, Adebowale Adeyemo, Ayo Doumatey, Heather Elding, Louise V Wain, George Ehret, Paul L Auer, Charles L Kooperberg, Alexander P Reiner, Nora Franceschini, Dermot P Maher, Stephen B Montgomery, Carl Kadie, Chris Widmer, Yali Xue, Janet Seeley, Gershim Asiki, Anatoli Kamali, Elizabeth H Young, Cristina Pomilla, Nicole Soranzo, Eleftheria Zeggini, Fraser Pirie, Andrew P Morris, David Heckerman, Chris Tyler-Smith, Ayesha Motala, Charles Rotimi, Pontiano Kaleebu, Ines Barroso and Manj S Sandhu

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Lead Highlight Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America. Nature. Published June 13, 2019.

Authors: Pavel Flegontov, N Ezgi Altınışık, Piya Changmai, Nadin Rohland, Swapan Mallick, Nicole Adamski, Deborah A Bolnick, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Francesca Candilio, Brendan J Culleton, Olga Flegontova, T Max Friesen, Choongwon Jeong, Thomas K Harper, Denise Keating, Douglas J Kennett, Alexander M Kim, Thiseas C Lamnidis, Ann Marie Lawson, Iñigo Olalde, Jonas Oppenheimer, Ben A Potter, Jennifer Raff, Robert A Sattler, Pontus Skoglund, Kristin Stewardson, Edward J Vajda, Sergey Vasilyev, Elizaveta Veselovskaya, M Geoffrey Hayes, Dennis H O'Rourke, Johannes Krause, Ron Pinhasi, David Reich and Stephan Schiffels

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The genetic history of admixture across inner Eurasia. Nature Ecology and Evolution. Published April 29, 2019.

Authors: Choongwon Jeong, Oleg Balanovsky, Elena Lukianova, Nurzhibek Kahbatkyzy, Pavel Flegontov, Valery Zaporozhchenko, Alexander Immel, Chuan-Chao Wang, Olzhas Ixan, Elmira Khussainova, Bakhytzhan Bekmanov, Victor Zaibert, Maria Lavryashina, Elvira Pocheshkhova, Yuldash Yusupov, Anastasiya Agdzhoyan, Sergey Koshel, Andrei Bukin, Pagbajabyn Nymadawa, Shahlo Turdikulova, Dilbar Dalimova, Mikhail Churnosov, Roza Skhalyakho, Denis Daragan, Yuri Bogunov, Anna Bogunova, Alexandr Shtrunov, Nadezhda Dubova, Maxat Zhabagin, Levon Yepiskoposyan, Vladimir Churakov, Nikolay Pislegin, Larissa Damba, Ludmila Saroyants, Khadizhat Dibirova, Lubov Atramentova, Olga Utevska, Eldar Idrisov, Evgeniya Kamenshchikova, Irina Evseeva, Mait Metspalu, Alan K Outram, Martine Robbeets, Leyla Djansugurova, Elena Balanovska, Stephan Schiffels, Wolfgang Haak, David Reich and Johannes Krause

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Survival of Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula. Current Biology. Published April 1, 2019.

Authors: Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Marieke S van de Loosdrecht, Cosimo Posth, Rafael Mora, Jorge Martínez-Moreno, Manuel Rojo-Guerra, Domingo C Salazar-García, José I Royo-Guillén, Michael Kunst, Hélène Rougier, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Héctor Arcusa-Magallón, Cristina Tejedor-Rodríguez, Iñigo García-Martínez de Lagrán, Rafael Garrido-Pena, Kurt W Alt, Choongwon Jeong, Stephan Schiffels, Pilar Utrilla, Johannes Krause and Wolfgang Haak

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Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions. Nature Communications. Published February 4, 2019.

Authors: Chuan-Chao Wang, Sabine Reinhold, Alexey Kalmykov, Antje Wissgott, Guido Brandt, Choongwon Jeong, Olivia Cheronet, Matthew Ferry, Eadaoin Harney, Denise Keating, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Kristin Stewardson, Anatoly R Kantorovich, Vladimir E Maslov, Vladimira G Petrenko, Vladimir R Erlikh, Biaslan Ch Atabiev, Rabadan G Magomedov, Philipp L Kohl, Kurt W Alt, Sandra L Pichler, Claudia Gerling, Harald Meller, Benik Vardanyan, Larisa Yeganyan, Alexey D Rezepkin, Dirk Mariaschk, Natalia Berezina, Julia Gresky, Katharina Fuchs, Corina Knipper, Stephan Schiffels, Elena Balanovska, Oleg Balanovsky, Iain Mathieson, Thomas Higham, Yakov B Berezin, Alexandra Buzhilova, Viktor Trifonov, Ron Pinhasi, Andrej B Belinskij, David Reich, Svend Hansen, Johannes Krause and Wolfgang Haak

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Lead Highlight Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe. Nature Communications. Published November 27, 2018.

Authors: Thiseas C Lamnidis, Kerttu Majander, Choongwon Jeong, Elina Salmela, Anna Wessman, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Valery Khartanovich, Oleg Balanovsky, Matthias Ongyerth, Antje Weihmann, Antti Sajantila, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Päivi Onkamo, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause and Stephan Schiffels

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Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America. Cell. Published November 15, 2018.

Authors: Cosimo Posth, Nathan Nakatsuka, Iosif Lazaridis, Pontus Skoglund, Swapan Mallick, Thiseas C Lamnidis, Nadin Rohland, Kathrin Nägele, Nicole Adamski, Emilie Bertolini, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Alan Cooper, Brendan J Culleton, Tiago Ferraz, Matthew Ferry, Anja Furtwängler, Wolfgang Haak, Kelly Harkins, Thomas K Harper, Tábita Hünemeier, Ann Marie Lawson, Bastien Llamas, Megan Michel, Elizabeth Nelson, Jonas Oppenheimer, Nick Patterson, Stephan Schiffels, Jakob Sedig, Kristin Stewardson, Sahra Talamo, Chuan-Chao Wang, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Mark Hubbe, Katerina Harvati, Amalia Nuevo Delaunay, Judith Beier, Michael Francken, Peter Kaulicke, Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Kurt Rademaker, Willa R Trask, Mark Robinson, Said M Gutierrez, Keith M Prufer, Domingo C Salazar-García, Eliane N Chim, Lisiane Müller Plumm Gomes, Marcony L Alves, Andersen Liryo, Mariana Inglez, Rodrigo E Oliveira, Danilo V Bernardo, Alberto Barioni, Veronica Wesolowski, Nahuel A Scheifler, Mario A Rivera, Claudia R Plens, Pablo G Messineo, Levy Figuti, Daniel Corach, Clara Scabuzzo, Sabine Eggers, Paulo DeBlasis, Markus Reindel, César Méndez, Gustavo Politis, Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, Douglas J Kennett, André Strauss, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Johannes Krause and David Reich

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Major Möglichkeiten und Grenzen molekulargenetischer Untersuchungen in den Geschichtswissenschaften. NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin. Published August 13, 2018.

Authors: Wolfgang Haak and Stephan Schiffels

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Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas. Science Advances. Published August 8, 2018.

Authors: Ben A Potter, James F Baichtal, Alwynne B Beaudoin, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, C Vance Haynes, Vance T Holliday, Charles E Holmes, John W Ives, Robert L Kelly, Bastien Llamas, Ripan S Malhi, D Shane Miller, David Reich, Joshua D Reuther, Stephan Schiffels and Todd A Surovell

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Arrival routes of first Americans uncertain. Science. Published March 16, 2018.

Authors: Ben A Potter, Alwynne B Beaudoin, C Vance Haynes, Vance T Holliday, Charles E Holmes, John W Ives, Robert Kelly, Bastien Llamas, Ripan Malhi, Shane Miller, David Reich, Joshua D Reuther, Stephan Schiffels and Todd Surovell

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Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations. Science. Published March 15, 2018.

Authors: Marieke van de Loosdrecht, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Louise Humphrey, Cosimo Posth, Nick Barton, Ayinuer Aximu-Petri, Birgit Nickel, Sarah Nagel, El Hassan Talbi, Mohammed Abdeljalil El Hajraoui, Saaïd Amzazi, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Svante Pääbo, Stephan Schiffels, Matthias Meyer, Wolfgang Haak, Choongwon Jeong and Johannes Krause

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The genetic prehistory of the Baltic Sea region. Nature Communications. Published January 30, 2018.

Authors: Alissa Mittnik, Chuan-Chao Wang, Saskia Pfrengle, Mantas Daubaras, Gunita Zariņa, Fredrik Hallgren, Raili Allmäe, Valery Khartanovich, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Mari Tõrv, Anja Furtwängler, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Michal Feldman, Christos Economou, Markku Oinonen, Andrejs Vasks, Elena Balanovska, David Reich, Rimantas Jankauskas, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels and Johannes Krause

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Lead Investigating Anglo-Saxon migration history with ancient and modern DNA. Migration and Integration from Prehistory to the Middle Ages. Published November 10, 2017.

Authors: Stephan Schiffels and Duncan Sayer

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Major Highlight Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods. Nature Communications. Published May 30, 2017.

Authors: Verena J Schuenemann, Alexander Peltzer, Beatrix Welte, W Paul van Pelt, Martyna Molak, Chuan-Chao Wang, Anja Furtwängler, Christian Urban, Ella Reiter, Kay Nieselt, Barbara Teßmann, Michael Francken, Katerina Harvati, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels and Johannes Krause

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Major A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia. Nature. Published September 21, 2016.

Authors: Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Michael C Westaway, Craig Muller, Vitor C Sousa, Oscar Lao, Isabel Alves, Anders Bergström, Georgios Athanasiadis, Jade Y Cheng, Jacob E Crawford, Tim H Heupink, Enrico Macholdt, Stephan Peischl, Simon Rasmussen, Stephan Schiffels, Sankar Subramanian, Joanne L Wright, Anders Albrechtsen, Chiara Barbieri, Isabelle Dupanloup, Anders Eriksson, Ashot Margaryan, Ida Moltke, Irina Pugach, Thorfinn S Korneliussen, Ivan P Levkivskyi, J Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Shengyu Ni, Fernando Racimo, Martin Sikora, Yali Xue, Farhang A Aghakhanian, Nicolas Brucato, Søren Brunak, Paula F Campos, Warren Clark, Sturla Ellingvåg, Gudjugudju Fourmile, Pascale Gerbault, Darren Injie, George Koki, Matthew Leavesley, Betty Logan, Aubrey Lynch, Elizabeth A Matisoo-Smith, Peter J McAllister, Alexander J Mentzer, Mait Metspalu, Andrea B Migliano, Les Murgha, Maude E Phipps, William Pomat, Doc Reynolds, François-Xavier Ricaut, Peter Siba, Mark G Thomas, Thomas Wales, Colleen Ma'run Wall, Stephen J Oppenheimer, Chris Tyler-Smith, Richard Durbin, Joe Dortch, Andrea Manica, Mikkel H Schierup, Robert A Foley, Marta Mirazon Lahr, Claire Bowern, Jeffrey D Wall, Thomas Mailund, Mark Stoneking, Rasmus Nielsen, Manjinder S Sandhu, Laurent Excoffier, David M Lambert and Eske Willerslev

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The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. Nature. Published May 2, 2016.

Authors: Qiaomei Fu, Cosimo Posth, Mateja Hajdinjak, Martin Petr, Swapan Mallick, Daniel Fernandes, Anja Furtwängler, Wolfgang Haak, Matthias Meyer, Alissa Mittnik, Birgit Nickel, Alexander Peltzer, Nadin Rohland, Viviane Slon, Sahra Talamo, Iosif Lazaridis, Mark Lipson, Iain Mathieson, Stephan Schiffels, Pontus Skoglund, Anatoly P Derevianko, Nikolai Drozdov, Vyacheslav Slavinsky, Alexander Tsybankov, Renata Grifoni Cremonesi, Francesco Mallegni, Bernard Gély, Eligio Vacca, Manuel R González Morales, Lawrence G Straus, Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Silviu Constantin, Oana Teodora Moldovan, Stefano Benazzi, Marco Peresani, Donato Coppola, Martina Lari, Stefano Ricci, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Frédérique Valentin, Corinne Thevenet, Kurt Wehrberger, Dan Grigorescu, Hélène Rougier, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Damien Flas, Patrick Semal, Marcello A Mannino, Christophe Cupillard, Hervé Bocherens, Nicholas J Conard, Katerina Harvati, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Dorothée G Drucker, Jiří Svoboda, Michael P Richards, David Caramelli, Ron Pinhasi, Janet Kelso, Nick Patterson, Johannes Krause, Svante Pääbo and David E Reich

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Lead Highlight Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from East England reveal British migration history. Nature Communications. Published January 1, 2016.

Authors: Stephan Schiffels, Wolfgang Haak, Pirita Paajanen, Bastien Llamas, Elizabeth Popescu, Louise Loe, Rachel Clarke, Alice Lyons, Richard Mortimer, Duncan Sayer, Chris Tyler-Smith, Alan Cooper and Richard Durbin

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Genomic islands of speciation separate cichlid ecomorphs in an East African crater lake. Science. Published December 18, 2015.

Authors: Milan Malinsky, Richard J Challis, Alexandra M Tyers, Stephan Schiffels, Yohey Terai, Benjamin P Ngatunga, Eric A Miska, Richard Durbin, Martin J Genner and George F Turner

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The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease. Nature. Published October 1, 2015.

Authors: UK10K Consortium , Klaudia Walter, Josine L Min, Jie Huang, Lucy Crooks, Yasin Memari, Shane McCarthy, John R B Perry, Changjiang Xu, Marta Futema, Daniel Lawson, Valentina Iotchkova, Stephan Schiffels, Audrey E Hendricks, Petr Danecek, Rui Li, James Floyd, Louise V Wain, Inês Barroso, Steve E Humphries, Matthew E Hurles, Eleftheria Zeggini, Jeffrey C Barrett, Vincent Plagnol, J Brent Richards, Celia M T Greenwood, Nicholas J Timpson, Richard Durbin and Nicole Soranzo

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Major Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans. Science. Published August 21, 2015.

Authors: Maanasa Raghavan, Matthias Steinrücken, Kelley Harris, Stephan Schiffels, Simon Rasmussen, Michael DeGiorgio, Anders Albrechtsen, Cristina Valdiosera, María C Ávila-Arcos, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Anders Eriksson, Ida Moltke, Mait Metspalu, Julian R Homburger, Jeff Wall, Omar E Cornejo, J Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Thorfinn S Korneliussen, Tracey Pierre, Morten Rasmussen, Paula F Campos, Peter de Barros Damgaard, Morten E Allentoft, John Lindo, Ene Metspalu, Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela, Josefina Mansilla, Celeste Henrickson, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Helena Malmström, Thomas Stafford, Suyash S Shringarpure, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Monika Karmin, Kristiina Tambets, Anders Bergström, Yali Xue, Vera Warmuth, Andrew D Friend, Joy Singarayer, Paul Valdes, Francois Balloux, Ilán Leboreiro, Jose Luis Vera, Hector Rangel-Villalobos, Davide Pettener, Donata Luiselli, Loren G Davis, Evelyne Heyer, Christoph P E Zollikofer, Marcia S Ponce de León, Colin I Smith, Vaughan Grimes, Kelly-Anne Pike, Michael Deal, Benjamin T Fuller, Bernardo Arriaza, Vivien Standen, Maria F Luz, Francois Ricaut, Niede Guidon, Ludmila Osipova, Mikhail I Voevoda, Olga L Posukh, Oleg Balanovsky, Maria Lavryashina, Yuri Bogunov, Elza Khusnutdinova, Marina Gubina, Elena Balanovska, Sardana Fedorova, Sergey Litvinov, Boris Malyarchuk, Miroslava Derenko, M J Mosher, David Archer, Jerome Cybulski, Barbara Petzelt, Joycelynn Mitchell, Rosita Worl, Paul J Norman, Peter Parham, Brian M Kemp, Toomas Kivisild, Chris Tyler-Smith, Manjinder S Sandhu, Michael Crawford, Richard Villems, David Glenn Smith, Michael R Waters, Ted Goebel, John R Johnson, Ripan S Malhi, Mattias Jakobsson, David J Meltzer, Andrea Manica, Richard Durbin, Carlos D Bustamante, Yun S Song, Rasmus Nielsen and Eske Willerslev

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Tracing the route of modern humans out of Africa by using 225 human genome sequences from Ethiopians and Egyptians. American Journal of Human Genetics. Published June 4, 2015.

Authors: Luca Pagani, Stephan Schiffels, Deepti Gurdasani, Petr Danecek, Aylwyn Scally, Yuan Chen, Yali Xue, Marc Haber, Rosemary Ekong, Tamiru Oljira, Ephrem Mekonnen, Donata Luiselli, Neil Bradman, Endashaw Bekele, Pierre Zalloua, Richard Durbin, Toomas Kivisild and Chris Tyler-Smith

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Lead Highlight Inferring human population size and separation history from multiple genome sequences. Nature Genetics. Published August 1, 2014.

Authors: Stephan Schiffels and Richard Durbin

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Major Evolution of molecular phenotypes under stabilizing selection. Journal of Statistical Mechanics. Published January 16, 2013.

Authors: Armita Nourmohammad, Stephan Schiffels and Michael Lässig

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Quantifying selection acting on a complex trait using allele frequency time-series data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. Published November 23, 2011.

Authors: Christopher J R Illingworth, Leopold Parts, Stephan Schiffels, Gianni Liti and Ville Mustonen

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Lead Emergent Neutrality in Adaptive Asexual Evolution. Genetics. Published September 16, 2011.

Authors: Stephan Schiffels, Gergely Szöllösi, Ville Mustonen and Michael Lässig

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