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Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers.
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- A minimal hybridization capture approach for the parallel enrichment and cost-effective detection of ancient human pathogens.iScience · 2026Article
- Local ancestry inference identifies robust evidence of selection in Neolithic Europe.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A prehistoric East-Asian Yersinia pestis genome and a ~5.3 ka trans-Eurasian expansion of plague.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland.Communications biology · 2026Article
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- Fault-tolerant pedigree reconstruction from pairwise kinship relations.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
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- Paleopathology Meets Public Health: Deep-Time Syndemics and the Ecology of Emerging Infections.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Insights into infectious diseases through ancient pathogen genomics.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Insights into human adaptation from ancient DNA.Nature genetics · 2026Review
- Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Autosomal ancestry and male founder events explain variation in male height across 60 Caucasian populations.Human genomics · 2026Article
- Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
- Commentary on Seersholm Et al.: Yersinia pestis Infection Is Not Synonymous With Deadly Plague in Neolithic Scandinavia.American journal of biological anthropology · 2026Article
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- Interaction of Bacteria and Fleas, Focusing on the Plague Bacterium-A Review.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- Fifteen millennia of human mitogenome evolution in Sicily.Science advances · 2025Article
- Was descent in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe patrilineal or bilateral?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Ancient Origins and Global Diversity of Plague: Genomic Evidence for Deep Eurasian Reservoirs and Recurrent Emergence.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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26 authors.
Frederik Valeur SeersholmLundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. frederikseersholm@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-2217-3247
Karl-Göran SjögrenDepartment of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Julia KoelmanHuman Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Malou BlankDepartment of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-0057-8756
Emma M SvenssonHuman Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Jacqueline StaringLygature, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Magdalena FraserHuman Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Thomaz PinottiLundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hugh McCollLundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-7568-4270
Charleen GaunitzLundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tatiana Ruiz-BedoyaHuman Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-4858-846X
Lena GranehällHuman Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-9970-4080
Berenice Villegas-RamirezHuman Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Anders FischerSealand Archaeology, Kalundborg, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-0852-5904
T Douglas PriceDepartment of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5951-5621
Morten E AllentoftLundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-4424-3568
Astrid K N IversenNuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3507-5956
Tony AxelssonDepartment of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-9902-7067
Torbjörn AhlströmDepartment of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Anders GötherströmCentre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jan StoråDepartment of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kristian KristiansenLundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Eske WillerslevLundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mattias JakobssonHuman Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-7840-7853
Helena MalmströmHuman Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6456-8055
Martin SikoraLundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. martin.sikora@sund.ku.dk.ORCID 0000-0003-2818-8319
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Wellcome Trust
Abstract
In the period between 5,300 and 4,900 calibrated years before present (cal. BP), populations across large parts of Europe underwent a period of demographic decline
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FarmersGenomicsPedigreePlaguePopulation DynamicsYersinia pestisCemeteriesFemaleGenome, BacterialHistory, AncientHumansMalePhylogenyScandinavian and Nordic CountriesTime FactorsVirulence FactorsVirulence Factors
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