Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics

Genes mirror migrations and cultures in prehistoric Europe — a population genomic perspective

(2016) Torsten Günther et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Inferences of African evolutionary history from genomic data

(2016) Marcia Holsbach Beltrame et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

The Genetic Cost of Neanderthal Introgression

(2016) Kelley Harris et al.   GENETICS

Whole-genome sequence analyses of Western Central African Pygmy hunter-gatherers reveal a complex demographic history and identify candidate genes under positive natural selection

(2016) PingHsun Hsieh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Model-based analyses of whole-genome data reveal a complex evolutionary history involving archaic introgression in Central African Pygmies

(2016) PingHsun Hsieh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Positive Selection on a Regulatory Insertion–Deletion Polymorphism inFADS2Influences Apparent Endogenous Synthesis of Arachidonic Acid

(2016) Kumar S. D. Kothapalli et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor

(2016) Mikkel W. Pedersen et al.   NATURE

A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

(2016) Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas et al.   NATURE

Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific

(2016) Pontus Skoglund et al.   NATURE

Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals

(2016) Martin Kuhlwilm et al.   NATURE

The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

(2016) Swapan Mallick et al.   NATURE

Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

(2016) Luca Pagani et al.   NATURE

Bison phylogeography constrains dispersal and viability of the Ice Free Corridor in western Canada

(2016) Peter D. Heintzman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals

(2016) B. Vernot et al.   SCIENCE

The phenotypic legacy of admixture between modern humans and Neandertals

(2016) C. N. Simonti et al.   SCIENCE

Detection of human adaptation during the past 2000 years

(2016) Yair Field et al.   SCIENCE

Going global by adapting local: A review of recent human adaptation

(2016) S. Fan et al.   SCIENCE

Admixture into and within sub-Saharan Africa

(2016) George BJ Busby et al.   eLife

The Genetic Cost of Neanderthal Introgression

(2016) Kelley Harris et al.   GENETICS

Complex History of Admixture between Modern Humans and Neandertals

(2015) Benjamin Vernot et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Selection and Reduced Population Size Cannot Explain Higher Amounts of Neandertal Ancestry in East Asian than in European Human Populations

(2015) Bernard Y. Kim et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The process, biotic impact, and global implications of the human colonization of Sahul about 47,000 years ago

(2015) J.F. O'Connell et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation

(2015) Chris Clarkson et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

(2015) Iain Mathieson et al.   NATURE

Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

(2015) Wolfgang Haak et al.   NATURE

An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

(2015) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

(2015) Morten E. Allentoft et al.   NATURE

The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

(2015) Wu Liu et al.   NATURE

Height-reducing variants and selection for short stature in Sardinia

(2015) Magdalena Zoledziewska et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Evidence for archaic adaptive introgression in humans

(2015) Fernando Racimo et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Subcortical barrelette-like and barreloid-like structures in the prosimian galago (Otolemur garnetti)

(2015) Eva Kille Sawyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques

(2015) Torsten Günther et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation

(2015) M. Fumagalli et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

(2015) M. Raghavan et al.   SCIENCE

Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians

(2015) Eppie R. Jones et al.   Nature Communications

Genetic Origins of Lactase Persistence and the Spread of Pastoralism in Africa

(2014) Alessia Ranciaro et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil

(2014) Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genome-wide Ancestry Patterns in Rapanui Suggest Pre-European Admixture with Native Americans

(2014) J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Human high-altitude adaptation: forward genetics meets the HIF pathway

(2014) Abigail W. Bigham et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Neanderthal Origin of the Haplotypes Carrying the Functional Variant Val92Met in the MC1R in Modern Humans

(2014) Qiliang Ding et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

(2014) Iosif Lazaridis et al.   NATURE

The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

(2014) Morten Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

(2014) Tom Higham et al.   NATURE

Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA

(2014) Emilia Huerta-Sánchez et al.   NATURE

The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans

(2014) Sriram Sankararaman et al.   NATURE

The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

(2014) Deepti Gurdasani et al.   NATURE

Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

(2014) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

Inferring human population size and separation history from multiple genome sequences

(2014) Stephan Schiffels et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Natural selection and infectious disease in human populations

(2014) Elinor K. Karlsson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Direct evidence for positive selection of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation in Europeans during the last 5,000 y

(2014) Sandra Wilde et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa

(2014) J. K. Pickrell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic

(2014) M. Raghavan et al.   SCIENCE

Resurrecting Surviving Neandertal Lineages from Modern Human Genomes

(2014) B. Vernot et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years

(2014) A. Seguin-Orlando et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic Diversity and Admixture Differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian Foragers and Farmers

(2014) P. Skoglund et al.   SCIENCE

Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory

(2014) Cristina Gamba et al.   Nature Communications

A Population Genetic Signal of Polygenic Adaptation

(2014) Jeremy J. Berg et al.   PLoS Genetics

Higher Levels of Neanderthal Ancestry in East Asians than in Europeans

(2013) Jeffrey D. Wall et al.   GENETICS

Extensive Population Structure in San, Khoe, and Mixed Ancestry Populations from Southern Africa Revealed by 44 Short 5-SNP Haplotypes

(2013) Carina M. Schlebusch et al.   HUMAN BIOLOGY

Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

(2013) Maanasa Raghavan et al.   NATURE

Genome-wide data substantiate Holocene gene flow from India to Australia

(2013) I. Pugach et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inferring Demographic History from a Spectrum of Shared Haplotype Lengths

(2013) Kelley Harris et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genetic Adaptation of Fatty-Acid Metabolism: A Human-Specific Haplotype Increasing the Biosynthesis of Long-Chain Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids

(2012) Adam Ameur et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Evolutionary History and Adaptation from High-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequences of Diverse African Hunter-Gatherers

(2012) Joseph Lachance et al.   CELL

Reconstructing Native American population history

(2012) David Reich et al.   NATURE

Evidence of widespread selection on standing variation in Europe at height-associated SNPs

(2012) Michael C Turchin et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Revising the human mutation rate: implications for understanding human evolution

(2012) Aylwyn Scally et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Adaptive Evolution of the FADS Gene Cluster within Africa

(2012) Rasika A. Mathias et al.   PLoS One

Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves

(2012) D. L. Jenkins et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic Variation in Seven Khoe-San Groups Reveals Adaptation and Complex African History

(2012) C. M. Schlebusch et al.   SCIENCE

Origins and Genetic Legacy of Neolithic Farmers and Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

(2012) P. Skoglund et al.   SCIENCE

Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family

(2012) R. Bouckaert et al.   SCIENCE

The genetic prehistory of southern Africa

(2012) Joseph K. Pickrell et al.   Nature Communications

The Date of Interbreeding between Neandertals and Modern Humans

(2012) Sriram Sankararaman et al.   PLoS Genetics

An Early Divergence of KhoeSan Ancestors from Those of Other Modern Humans Is Supported by an ABC-Based Analysis of Autosomal Resequencing Data

(2011) Krishna R. Veeramah et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behaviour

(2011) Stefano Benazzi et al.   NATURE

Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences

(2011) Heng Li et al.   NATURE

Bayesian inference of ancient human demography from individual genome sequences

(2011) Ilan Gronau et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Archaic human ancestry in East Asia

(2011) P. Skoglund et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic evidence for archaic admixture in Africa

(2011) M. F. Hammer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans

(2011) B. M. Henn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Demographic history and rare allele sharing among human populations

(2011) S. Gravel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Shaping of Modern Human Immune Systems by Multiregional Admixture with Archaic Humans

(2011) L. Abi-Rached et al.   SCIENCE

A New View Of the Birth of Homo sapiens

(2011) A. Gibbons   SCIENCE

An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

(2011) M. Rasmussen et al.   SCIENCE

Signatures of Environmental Genetic Adaptation Pinpoint Pathogens as the Main Selective Pressure through Human Evolution

(2011) Matteo Fumagalli et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation

(2010) Jonathan K. Pritchard et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Demographic History of Oceania Inferred from Genome-wide Data

(2010) Andreas Wollstein et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

(2010) David Reich et al.   NATURE

Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

(2010) Morten Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Natural selection on EPAS1 (HIF2 ) associated with low hemoglobin concentration in Tibetan highlanders

(2010) C. M. Beall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Human skin pigmentation as an adaptation to UV radiation

(2010) N. G. Jablonski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic Evidence for High-Altitude Adaptation in Tibet

(2010) T. S. Simonson et al.   SCIENCE

Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes Reveals Adaptation to High Altitude

(2010) X. Yi et al.   SCIENCE

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

(2010) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Global distribution of the sickle cell gene and geographical confirmation of the malaria hypothesis

(2010) Frédéric B. Piel et al.   Nature Communications

Identifying Signatures of Natural Selection in Tibetan and Andean Populations Using Dense Genome Scan Data

(2010) Abigail Bigham et al.   PLoS Genetics

Global distribution of genomic diversity underscores rich complex history of continental human populations

(2009) A. Auton et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture in West Africans and African Americans

(2009) K. Bryc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans

(2009) S. A. Tishkoff et al.   SCIENCE

Correlation between Genetic and Geographic Structure in Europe

(2008) Oscar Lao et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Human MHC architecture and evolution: implications for disease association studies

(2008) J. A. Traherne   International Journal of Immunogenetics

Genes mirror geography within Europe

(2008) John Novembre et al.   NATURE

Genotype, haplotype and copy-number variation in worldwide human populations

(2008) Mattias Jakobsson et al.   NATURE

Indo-European and Asian origins for Chilean and Pacific chickens revealed by mtDNA

(2008) J. Gongora et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paleo-Eskimo mtDNA Genome Reveals Matrilineal Discontinuity in Greenland

(2008) M. T. P. Gilbert et al.   SCIENCE