Origins of modern human ancestry

A Bergström, C Stringer, M Hajdinjak, EML Scerri… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
New finds in the palaeoanthropological and genomic records have changed our view of the
origins of modern human ancestry. Here we review our current understanding of how the …

Ancient DNA analysis

L Orlando, R Allaby, P Skoglund… - Nature reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

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 …

Duration and key determinants of infectious virus shedding in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)

JJA van Kampen, DAMC van de Vijver… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Key questions in COVID-19 are the duration and determinants of infectious virus shedding.
Here, we report that infectious virus shedding is detected by virus cultures in 23 of the 129 …

Palaeogenomics of upper palaeolithic to neolithic European hunter-gatherers

C Posth, H Yu, A Ghalichi, H Rougier, I Crevecoeur… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years,. Our knowledge of the
genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to …

[HTML][HTML] Non-invasive early detection of cancer four years before conventional diagnosis using a blood test

X Chen, J Gole, A Gore, Q He, M Lu, J Min… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Early detection has the potential to reduce cancer mortality, but an effective screening test
must demonstrate asymptomatic cancer detection years before conventional diagnosis in a …

Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

CC Wang, HY Yeh, AN Popov, HQ Zhang… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people,. Here we report genome …

A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species

LFK Kuderna, H Gao, MC Janiak, M Kuhlwilm, JD Orkin… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
The rich diversity of morphology and behavior displayed across primate species provides an
informative context in which to study the impact of genomic diversity on fundamental …

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals

H Zeberg, S Pääbo - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
A recent genetic association study identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus
for respiratory failure after infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths

T Van der Valk, P Pečnerová, D Díez-del-Molino… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Temporal genomic data hold great potential for studying evolutionary processes such as
speciation. However, sampling across speciation events would, in many cases, require …