The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024‏ - nature.com
More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans.
While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the …

[HTML][HTML] Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

ME Allentoft, M Sikora, A Refoyo-Martínez… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene,,,–.
Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced …

New insights into human immunity from ancient genomics

G Kerner, E Patin, L Quintana-Murci - Current Opinion in Immunology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Population genetic studies have clearly indicated that immunity and host defense are among
the functions most frequently subject to natural selection, and increased our understanding …

Tracing the Evolution of Human Immunity Through Ancient DNA

E Patin, L Quintana-Murci - Annual Review of Immunology, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Infections have imposed strong selection pressures throughout human evolution, making the
study of natural selection's effects on immunity genes highly complementary to disease …

Benchmarking freely available HLA ty** algorithms across varying genes, coverages and ty** resolutions

NH Thuesen, MS Klausen, S Gopalakrishnan… - Frontiers in …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Identifying the specific human leukocyte antigen (HLA) allele combination of an individual is
crucial in organ donation, risk assessment of autoimmune and infectious diseases and …

Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community

M Rivollat, AB Rohrlach, H Ringbauer, A Childebayeva… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Social anthropology and ethnographic studies have described kinship systems and
networks of contact and exchange in extant populations,,–. However, for prehistoric …

Population genomics of stone age eurasia

ME Allentoft, M Sikora, A Refoyo-Martínez… - BioRxiv, 2022‏ - biorxiv.org
The transitions from foraging to farming and later to pastoralism in Stone Age Eurasia (c. 11-
3 thousand years before present, BP) represent some of the most dramatic lifestyle changes …

Pervasive findings of directional selection realize the promise of ancient DNA to elucidate human adaptation

A Akbari, AR Barton, S Gazal, Z Li, M Kariminejad… - …, 2024‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We present a method for detecting evidence of natural selection in ancient DNA time-series
data that leverages an opportunity not utilized in previous scans: testing for a consistent …

[HTML][HTML] Hunter-gatherer admixture facilitated natural selection in Neolithic European farmers

T Davy, D Ju, I Mathieson, P Skoglund - Current Biology, 2023‏ - cell.com
Ancient DNA has revealed multiple episodes of admixture in human prehistory during
geographic expansions associated with cultural innovations. One important example is the …

Ancient DNA HLA ty** reveals significant shifts in frequency in Europe since the Neolithic

AG Plascencia, M Jakobsson, F Sánchez-Quinto - Scientific Reports, 2025‏ - nature.com
Computational HLA ty** has surged as a cost-effective strategy to uncover questions
regarding the evolution of the HLA system, enabling immunogenic characterization from …