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Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death.
Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Ancient DNA and Human Physiology.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Genomic insights into natural selection in recent human history.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
- Insights into infectious diseases through ancient pathogen genomics.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Insights into human adaptation from ancient DNA.Nature genetics · 2026Review
- Temporal shifts in polygenic traits track major epidemics in Western Eurasia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
- Estimating allele frequencies, ancestry proportions and genotype likelihoods in the presence of mapping bias.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
- SimOutbreakSelection: a simulation-based tool to optimise sampling design and analysis strategies for detecting epidemic-driven selection.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden.Genome biology · 2025Article
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- Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
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- DORA: an interactive map for the visualization and analysis of ancient human DNA and associated data.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death.Science advances · 2024Article
- Evolutionary immuno-genetics of endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase II (ERAP2).Genes and immunity · 2023Review
- Reply to Barton et al: signatures of natural selection during the Black Death.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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