Zooming into the Population History of Iron Age Europe with Rare Genetic Variants.

Project Information

MICROSCOPE

Grant agreement ID: 851511

DOI

10.3030/851511

Project closed

EC signature date 16 October 2019

Start date 1 November 2019

End date 31 October 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 495 161,00

EU contribution

€ 1 495 161,00

Coordinated by

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

<i>PNPLA3</i> fatty liver allele was fixed in Neanderthals and segregates neutrally in humans

Author(s): Andreas Geier, Jonas Trost, Ke Wang, Clemens Schmid, Marcin Krawczyk, Stephan Schiffels
Published in: Gut, Issue 73, 2025, Page(s) 1008-1014, ISSN 0017-5749
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2023-331594

Cases of trisomy 21 and trisomy 18 among historic and prehistoric individuals discovered from ancient DNA

Author(s): Adam Benjamin Rohrlach, Maïté Rivollat, Patxuka de-Miguel-Ibáñez, Ulla Nordfors, Anne-Mari Liira, João C. Teixeira, Xavier Roca-Rada, Javier Armendáriz-Martija, Kamen Boyadzhiev, Yavor Boyadzhiev, Bastien Llamas, Anthi Tiliakou, Angela Mötsch, Jonathan Tuke, Eleni-Anna Prevedorou, Naya Polychronakou-Sgouritsa, Jane Buikstra, Päivi Onkamo, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Henrike O. Heyne, Johannes
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45438-1

Reproducible, portable, and efficient ancient genome reconstruction with nf-core/eager

Author(s): James A. Fellows Yates, Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Maxime Borry, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Zandra Fagernäs, Stephen Clayton, Maxime U. Garcia, Judith Neukamm, Alexander Peltzer
Published in: PeerJ, 2026, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.11.145615

The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool

Author(s): Joscha Gretzinger, Duncan Sayer, Pierre Justeau, Eveline Altena, Maria Pala, Katharina Dulias, Ceiridwen J Edwards, Susanne Jodoin, Laura Lacher, Susanna Sabin, Åshild J Vågene, Wolfgang Haak, S Sunna Ebenesersdóttir, Kristjan H S Moore, Rita Radzeviciute, Kara Schmidt, Selina Brace, Martina Abenhus Bager, Nick Patterson, Luka Papac, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Kimberly Callan
Published in: Nature, 2022, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05247-2

Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria

Author(s): Megan Michel, Eirini Skourtanioti, Federica Pierini, Evelyn K. Guevara, Angela Mötsch, Arthur Kocher, Rodrigo Barquera, Raffaela A. Bianco, Selina Carlhoff, Lorenza Coppola Bove, Suzanne Freilich, Karen Giffin, Taylor Hermes, Alina Hiß, Florian Knolle, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Gunnar U. Neumann, Luka Papac, Sandra Penske, Adam B. Rohrlach, Nada Salem, Lena Semerau, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Isabelle A
Published in: Nature, Issue 631, 2024, Page(s) 125-133, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07546-2

Reproducible, portable, and efficient ancient genome reconstruction with nf-core/eager

Author(s): James A Fellows Yates, Thiseas C Lamnidis, Maxime Borry, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Zandra Fagernäs, Stephen Clayton; Maxime U Garcia, Judith Neukamm, Alexander Peltzer
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 9, 2021, Page(s) e10947, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10947

Poseidon – A framework for archaeogenetic human genotype data management

Author(s): Clemens Schmid, Ayshin Ghalichi, Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Dhananjaya B. A. Mudiyanselage, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels
Published in: eLife, 2024, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.98317

Demes: a standard format for demographic models

Author(s): Gower, Graham; Ragsdale, Aaron P; Bisschop, Gertjan; Gutenkunst, Ryan N; Hartfield, Matthew; Noskova, Ekaterina; Schiffels, Stephan; Struck, Travis J; Kelleher, Jerome; Thornton, Kevin R
Published in: Demes: a standard format for demographic models, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 0016-6731
Publisher: Genetics Society of America
DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyac131

Estimating human mobility in Holocene Western Eurasia with large-scale ancient genomic data

Author(s): Clemens Schmid, Stephan Schiffels
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Issue 9, 2023, Page(s) e2218375120, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2218375120

Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe

Author(s): Joscha Gretzinger, Felicitas Schmitt, Angela Mötsch, Selina Carlhoff, Thiseas Christos Lamnidis, Yilei Huang, Harald Ringbauer, Corina Knipper, Michael Francken, Franziska Mandt, Leif Hansen, Cäcilia Freund, Cosimo Posth, Hannes Rathmann, Katerina Harvati, Günther Wieland, Lena Granehäll, Frank Maixner, Albert Zink, Wolfram Schier, Dirk Krausse, Johannes Krause, Stephan Schiffels
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 1467-1480, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Spriger Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01888-7

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

High resolution analysis of population structure using rare variants

Author(s): Lei Huang, Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Stephan Schiffels
Published in: biorxiv, 2026, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: openRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.18.665597

Book chapters (1)

Intramural child burials in Iron Age Navarra: How ancient DNA can contribute to household archaeology

Author(s): Papac, Luka; Miguel Ibáñez, María Paz de; Rohrlach, Adam B.; Armendáriz Martija, Javier; Peres, Marcello; Lamnidis, Thiseas C.; Mötsch, Angela; Schiffels, Stephan; Risch, Roberto
Published in: instname:Universidad Pública de Navarra, Issue 1, 2023
Publisher: Propylaeum, 2023 (Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle).
DOI: 10.11588/propylaeum.1280