Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations

A new model for ancient DNA decay based on paleogenomic meta-analysis

(2017) Logan Kistler et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago

(2017) Carina M. Schlebusch et al.   SCIENCE

Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments

(2017) Viviane Slon et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers

(2017) Martin Sikora et al.   SCIENCE

Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty

(2017) Douglas J. Kennett et al.   Nature Communications

Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods

(2017) Verena J. Schuenemann et al.   Nature Communications

Rainfall regimes of the Green Sahara

(2017) Jessica E. Tierney et al.   Science Advances

Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe

(2016) Cosimo Posth et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

(2016) Iosif Lazaridis et al.   NATURE

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

(2016) Swapan Mallick et al.   NATURE

Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences

(2016) G David Poznik et al.   NATURE GENETICS

West African Palaeolithic history: New archaeological and chronostratigraphic data from the Falémé valley, eastern Senegal

(2016) B. Chevrier et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

New radiocarbon dates for the earliest Later Stone Age microlithic technology in Northwest Africa

(2016) J.T. Hogue et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Reconsidering the MSA to LSA transition at Taforalt Cave (Morocco) in the light of new multi-proxy dating evidence

(2016) R.N.E. Barton et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Characterizing evulsion in the Later Stone Age Maghreb: Age, sex and effects on mastication

(2016) Isabelle De Groote et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The mitogenome of a 35,000-year-old Homo sapiens from Europe supports a Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa

(2016) M. Hervella et al.   Scientific Reports

On the origin of Iberomaurusians: new data based on ancient mitochondrial DNA and phylogenetic analysis of Afalou and Taforalt populations

(2016) Rym Kefi et al.   Mitochondrial DNA Part A

Effect of X-ray irradiation on ancient DNA in sub-fossil bones – Guidelines for safe X-ray imaging

(2016) Alexander Immel et al.   Scientific Reports

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

New chronology for Ksâr ‘Akil (Lebanon) supports Levantine route of modern human dispersal into Europe

(2015) Marjolein D. Bosch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The role of cryptotephra in refining the chronology of Late Pleistocene human evolution and cultural change in North Africa

(2015) R.N.E. Barton et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Nile behaviour and Late Palaeolithic humans in Upper Egypt during the Late Pleistocene

(2015) Pierre M. Vermeersch et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture in Eastern Africa

(2015) M. Gallego Llorente et al.   SCIENCE

Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians

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

Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets

(2015) Christopher C Chang et al.   GigaScience

Optimal Ancient DNA Yields from the Inner Ear Part of the Human Petrous Bone

(2015) Ron Pinhasi et al.   PLoS One

Early Holocenic and Historic mtDNA African Signatures in the Iberian Peninsula: The Andalusian Region as a Paradigm

(2015) Candela L. Hernández et al.   PLoS One

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

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

ANGSD: Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data

(2014) Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The history of the North African mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 gene flow into the African, Eurasian and American continents

(2014) Bernard Secher et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Selective enrichment of damaged DNA molecules for ancient genome sequencing

(2014) Marie-Theres Gansauge et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

(2014) Iosif Lazaridis et al.   NATURE

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

(2014) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

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

Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco

(2014) L. T. Humphrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2014) Cristina Gamba et al.   Nature Communications

Diversity of Lactase Persistence Alleles in Ethiopia: Signature of a Soft Selective Sweep

(2013) Bryony L. Jones et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Bayesian evolutionary model testing in the phylogenomics era: matching model complexity with computational efficiency

(2013) G. Baele et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Improved eye- and skin-color prediction based on 8 SNPs

(2013) Katie L. Hart et al.   CROATIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL

Higher Levels of Neanderthal Ancestry in East Asians than in Europeans

(2013) Jeffrey D. Wall et al.   GENETICS

Inferring Admixture Histories of Human Populations Using Linkage Disequilibrium

(2013) P.-R. Loh et al.   GENETICS

Polymorphisms of four pigmentation genes (SLC45A2, SLC24A5, MC1R and TYRP1) among eleven endogamous populations of India

(2013) MEETA MUKHERJEE et al.   JOURNAL OF GENETICS

Origins of the Iberomaurusian in NW Africa: New AMS radiocarbon dating of the Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Taforalt Cave, Morocco

(2013) R.N.E. Barton et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya)

(2013) Katerina Douka et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

(2013) Maanasa Raghavan et al.   NATURE

Single-stranded DNA library preparation for the sequencing of ancient or damaged DNA

(2013) Marie-Theres Gansauge et al.   Nature Protocols

DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

(2013) Q. Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments

(2013) J. Dabney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Light Skin Allele of SLC24A5 in South Asians and Europeans Shares Identity by Descent

(2013) Chandana Basu Mallick et al.   PLoS Genetics

A “Copernican” Reassessment of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Tree from its Root

(2012) Doron M. Behar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Divorcing the Late Upper Palaeolithic demographic histories of mtDNA haplogroups M1 and U6 in Africa

(2012) Erwan Pennarun et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ancient Admixture in Human History

(2012) N. Patterson et al.   GENETICS

Temporal Patterns of Nucleotide Misincorporations and DNA Fragmentation in Ancient DNA

(2012) Susanna Sawyer et al.   PLoS One

Origin and Diet of the Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers on the Mediterranean Island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Sicily)

(2012) Marcello A. Mannino et al.   PLoS One

Human occupation of Northwest Africa: A review of Middle Palaeolithic to Epipalaeolithic sites in Morocco

(2012) Jörg Linstädter et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

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

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

A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual

(2012) M. Meyer et al.   SCIENCE

Iberomaurusian funerary behaviour: Evidence from Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco

(2011) Louise Humphrey et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Susceptibility to tuberculosis is associated with TLR1 polymorphisms resulting in a lack of TLR1 cell surface expression

(2011) Peter Uciechowski et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

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

(2011) Stefano Benazzi et al.   NATURE

Double indexing overcomes inaccuracies in multiplex sequencing on the Illumina platform

(2011) Martin Kircher et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

Stuck to the shore? Investigating prehistoric hunter-gatherer subsistence, mobility and territoriality in a Mediterranean coastal landscape through isotope analyses on marine mollusc shell carbonates and human bone collagen

(2011) M.A. Mannino et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The Epipalaeolithic (Iberomaurusian) at Grotte des Pigeons (Taforalt), Morocco: A preliminary study of the land Mollusca

(2011) V.K. Taylor et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

(2011) M. Rasmussen et al.   SCIENCE

Common Variants in the Trichohyalin Gene Are Associated with Straight Hair in Europeans

(2009) Sarah E. Medland et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Fast model-based estimation of ancestry in unrelated individuals

(2009) D. H. Alexander et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

(2009) I. S. Castaneda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Toll-Like Receptors and Their Different Contributions to Host Defense

(2009) Luis B. Barreiro et al.   PLoS Genetics

A Single SNP in an Evolutionary Conserved Region within Intron 86 of the HERC2 Gene Determines Human Blue-Brown Eye Color

(2008) Richard A. Sturm et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Blue eye color in humans may be caused by a perfectly associated founder mutation in a regulatory element located within the HERC2 gene inhibiting OCA2 expression

(2008) Hans Eiberg et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

Worldwide Human Relationships Inferred from Genome-Wide Patterns of Variation

(2008) J. Z. Li et al.   SCIENCE