The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

(2018) Peter de Barros Damgaard et al.   NATURE

Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski’s horses

(2018) Charleen Gaunitz et al.   SCIENCE

The genomic history of southeastern Europe

(2018) Iain Mathieson et al.   NATURE

The study of human Y chromosome variation through ancient DNA

(2017) Toomas Kivisild   HUMAN GENETICS

Efficient Computation of the Joint Sample Frequency Spectra for Multiple Populations

(2017) John A. Kamm et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS

Genome-wide data from two early Neolithic East Asian individuals dating to 7700 years ago

(2017) Veronika Siska et al.   Science Advances

Human Y Chromosome Haplogroup N: A Non-trivial Time-Resolved Phylogeography that Cuts across Language Families

(2016) Anne-Mai Ilumäe et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Reconstructing genetic history of Siberian and Northeastern European populations

(2016) Emily H.M. Wong et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

HaploGrep 2: mitochondrial haplogroup classification in the era of high-throughput sequencing

(2016) Hansi Weissensteiner et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genomic reconstruction of the history of extant populations of India reveals five distinct ancestral components and a complex structure

(2016) Analabha Basu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

(2016) Zuzana Hofmanová et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chronology of middle Holocene hunter–gatherers in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia: Corrections based on examination of the freshwater reservoir effect

(2016) Andrzej W. Weber et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from East England reveal British migration history

(2016) Stephan Schiffels et al.   Nature Communications

New Radiocarbon Dates and a Review of the Chronology of Prehistoric Populations from the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia, Russia

(2016) Svetlana V Svyatko et al.   RADIOCARBON

Leveraging Distant Relatedness to Quantify Human Mutation and Gene-Conversion Rates

(2015) Pier Francesco Palamara et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture

(2015) Monika Karmin et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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 fine-scale genetic structure of the British population

(2015) Stephen Leslie et al.   NATURE

Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians

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

Improving access to endogenous DNA in ancient bones and teeth

(2015) Peter B. Damgaard et al.   Scientific Reports

Calibrating the Human Mutation Rate via Ancestral Recombination Density in Diploid Genomes

(2015) Mark Lipson et al.   PLoS Genetics

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Rare Variation Facilitates Inferences of Fine-Scale Population Structure in Humans

(2014) Timothy D. O’Connor 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

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

(2014) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

The ancient Yakuts: a population genetic enigma

(2014) C. Keyser et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Freshwater Reservoir Offsets Investigated Through Paired Human-Faunal 14C Dating and Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis at Lake Baikal, Siberia

(2014) Rick J Schulting et al.   RADIOCARBON

Analyzing Radiocarbon Reservoir Offsets Through Stable Nitrogen Isotopes and Bayesian Modeling: A Case Study Using Paired Human and Faunal Remains from the Cis-Baikal Region, Siberia

(2014) Christopher Bronk Ramsey et al.   RADIOCARBON

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

Demography and the Age of Rare Variants

(2014) Iain Mathieson et al.   PLoS Genetics

Autosomal and uniparental portraits of the native populations of Sakha (Yakutia): implications for the peopling of Northeast Eurasia

(2013) Sardana A Fedorova et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

(2013) Qiaomei Fu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Accurate sex identification of ancient human remains using DNA shotgun sequencing

(2013) Pontus Skoglund et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse

(2013) Ludovic Orlando et al.   NATURE

Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

(2013) Maanasa Raghavan et al.   NATURE

The First Peopling of South America: New Evidence from Y-Chromosome Haplogroup Q

(2013) Vincenza Battaglia et al.   PLoS One

Investigating the Prehistory of Tungusic Peoples of Siberia and the Amur-Ussuri Region with Complete mtDNA Genome Sequences and Y-chromosomal Markers

(2013) Ana T. Duggan et al.   PLoS One

Sequencing Y Chromosomes Resolves Discrepancy in Time to Common Ancestor of Males Versus Females

(2013) G. D. Poznik et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient DNA Reveals Prehistoric Gene-Flow from Siberia in the Complex Human Population History of North East Europe

(2013) Clio Der Sarkissian et al.   PLoS Genetics

Mitochondrial DNA Signals of Late Glacial Recolonization of Europe from Near Eastern Refugia

(2012) Maria Pala et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome Variation Provides Evidence for a Recent Common Ancestry between Native Americans and Indigenous Altaians

(2012) Matthew C. Dulik et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Qualimap: evaluating next-generation sequencing alignment data

(2012) Fernando García-Alcalde et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Length and GC-biases during sequencing library amplification: A comparison of various polymerase-buffer systems with ancient and modern DNA sequencing libraries

(2012) Jesse Dabney et al.   BIOTECHNIQUES

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

Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography

(2012) G. Larson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A freshwater old carbon offset in Lake Baikal, Siberia and problems with the radiocarbon dating of archaeological sediments: Evidence from the Sagan-Zaba II site

(2012) Tatiana Nomokonova et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Inference of Population Structure using Dense Haplotype Data

(2012) Daniel John Lawson et al.   PLoS Genetics

A statistical framework for SNP calling, mutation discovery, association mapping and population genetical parameter estimation from sequencing data

(2011) H. Li   BIOINFORMATICS

A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data

(2011) Mark A DePristo et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A linear complexity phasing method for thousands of genomes

(2011) Olivier Delaneau et al.   NATURE METHODS

An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

(2011) M. Rasmussen et al.   SCIENCE

Human evolution in Siberia: from frozen bodies to ancient DNA

(2010) Eric Crubézy et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A major Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b Holocene era founder effect in Central and Western Europe

(2010) Natalie M Myres et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

(2010) Morten Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Origin and Post-Glacial Dispersal of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups C and D in Northern Asia

(2010) Miroslava Derenko et al.   PLoS One

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

(2010) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Reconstructing Indian population history

(2009) David Reich et al.   NATURE

The Earliest Horse Harnessing and Milking

(2009) A. K. Outram et al.   SCIENCE

Genetic analyses reveal independent domestication origins of Eurasian reindeer

(2008) K. H Roed et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES