M. Allentoft

Most-cited papers

Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia
M. Allentoft, Martin Sikora, K. Sjögren, Simon Rasmussen +62 more
2015Nature1,411 citations Open access
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The Beaker Phenomenon and the Genomic Transformation of Northwest Europe
Í. Olalde, S. Brace, M. Allentoft, I. Armit +140 more
2018Nature653 citations Open access
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Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans
M. Raghavan, Matthias Steinrücken, Kelley Harris, S. Schiffels +97 more
2015Science506 citations Open access
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Early Divergent Strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 Years Ago
Simon Rasmussen, M. Allentoft, Kasper Nielsen, L. Orlando +27 more
2015Cell471 citations Open access
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The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia
Hugh McColl, F. Racimo, L. Vinner, F. Demeter +62 more
2018Science395 citations Open access
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The First Horse Herders and the Impact of Early Bronze Age Steppe Expansions into Asia
Peter de Barros Damgaard, Rui Martiniano, J. Kamm, J. V. Moreno-Mayar +47 more
2018Science366 citations Open access
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Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers
Martin Sikora, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, V. Sousa, A. Albrechtsen +23 more
2017Science302 citations Open access
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Early human dispersals within the Americas
J. V. Moreno-Mayar, L. Vinner, Peter de Barros Damgaard, C. de la Fuente +50 more
2018Science301 citations Open access
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The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes
P. Librado, Naveed Khan, A. Fages, M. Kusliy +159 more
2021Nature272 citations Open access
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The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene
Martin Sikora, V. Pitulko, V. Sousa, M. Allentoft +50 more
2018Nature272 citations Open access
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Improving access to endogenous DNA in ancient bones and teeth
Peter de Barros Damgaard, A. Margaryan, H. Schroeder, L. Orlando +2 more
2015Scientific Reports272 citations Open access
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Author Correction: 137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes
Peter de Barros Damgaard, Nina Marchi, Simon Rasmussen, Michaël Peyrot +73 more
2018Nature263 citations Open access
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Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series
A. Fages, Kristian Hanghøj, Naveed Khan, Charleen Gaunitz +117 more
2019Cell254 citations Open access
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A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA
K. Kjær, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Bianca de Sanctis, B. De Cahsan +34 more
2022Nature243 citations Open access
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Population genomics of the Viking world
A. Margaryan, Daniel J. Lawson, Martin Sikora, F. Racimo +86 more
2019Nature243 citations Open access
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137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes
Peter de Barros Damgaard, Nina Marchi, Simon Rasmussen, Michaël Peyrot +73 more
2018Nature202 citations Open access
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Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe
K. Kristiansen, M. Allentoft, K. Frei, R. Iversen +8 more
2017Antiquity194 citations Open access
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Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period
B. Mühlemann, T. Jones, Peter de Barros Damgaard, M. Allentoft +30 more
2018Nature187 citations Open access
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Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia
M. Allentoft, Martin Sikora, Alba Refoyo-Martínez, Evan K. Irving-Pease +160 more
2023bioRxiv172 citations Open access
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Unraveling ancestry, kinship, and violence in a Late Neolithic mass grave
H. Schroeder, A. Margaryan, M. Szmyt, Bertrand Theulot +19 more
2019Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America165 citations Open access
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Tracing the dynamic life story of a Bronze Age Female
Karin Margarita Frei, Ulla Mannering, K. Kristiansen, M. Allentoft +7 more
2015Scientific Reports149 citations Open access
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Early Pleistocene enamel proteome sequences from Dmanisi resolve Stephanorhinus phylogeny
E. Cappellini, F. Welker, L. Pandolfi, J. R. Madrigal +40 more
2018Nature146 citations Open access
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Diverse variola virus (smallpox) strains were widespread in northern Europe in the Viking Age
B. Mühlemann, L. Vinner, A. Margaryan, H. Wilhelmson +25 more
2020Science144 citations Open access
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Extensive farming in Estonia started through a sex-biased migration from the Steppe
Lehti Saag, Liivi Varul, C. Scheib, Jesper T. Stenderup +10 more
2017bioRxiv143 citations Open access
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Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem
M. Saccó, S. Mammola, F. Altermatt, R. Alther +47 more
2023Global Change Biology140 citations Open access
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Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations
William Barrie, Yao-Ling Yang, Evan K. Irving-Pease, K. Attfield +27 more
2024Nature128 citations Open access
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Enamel Proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine.
F. Welker, Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal, Martin Kuhlwilm, W. Liao +14 more
2019Nature116 citations Open access
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A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch
T. Jensen, Jonas Niemann, K. H. Iversen, A. Fotakis +18 more
2019Nature Communications112 citations Open access
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Genome-wide ancestry of 17th-century enslaved Africans from the Caribbean
H. Schroeder, M. Ávila-Arcos, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, G. D. Poznik +15 more
2015Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America109 citations Open access
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Selection in Europeans on Fatty Acid Desaturases Associated with Dietary Changes
Matthew T. Buckley, F. Racimo, M. Allentoft, M. Jensen +13 more
2017Molecular biology and evolution105 citations Open access
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Ancient genomics
C. Der Sarkissian, M. Allentoft, M. Ávila-Arcos, Ross Barnett +22 more
2015Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences105 citations Open access
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Ancient Biomolecules and Evolutionary Inference.
E. Cappellini, A. Prohaska, F. Racimo, Frido Welker +15 more
2018Annual Review of Biochemistry100 citations Open access
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The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians
Evan K. Irving-Pease, Alba Refoyo-Martínez, William Barrie, A. Ingason +30 more
2024Nature97 citations Open access
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Human Disease Variation in the Light of Population Genomics.
A. Prohaska, F. Racimo, A. Schork, Martin Sikora +12 more
2019Cell90 citations Open access
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Imputation of ancient human genomes
Bárbara Sousa da Mota, S. Rubinacci, D. C. Cruz Dávalos, C. E. G. Amorim +11 more
2023Nature Communications86 citations Open access
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Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino
H. Schroeder, Martin Sikora, S. Gopalakrishnan, Lara M. Cassidy +23 more
2018Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America79 citations Open access
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Ancient human parvovirus B19 in Eurasia reveals its long-term association with humans
B. Mühlemann, A. Margaryan, Peter de Barros Damgaard, M. Allentoft +21 more
2018Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America72 citations Open access
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Kinship and social organization in Copper Age Europe. A cross-disciplinary analysis of archaeology, DNA, isotopes, and anthropology from two Bell Beaker cemeteries
K. Sjögren, Í. Olalde, Sophie Carver, M. Allentoft +11 more
2019bioRxiv66 citations Open access
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100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark
M. Allentoft, Martin Sikora, Anders Fischer, K. Sjögren +64 more
2024Nature64 citations Open access
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Ancient Jomon genome sequence analysis sheds light on migration patterns of early East Asian populations
Takashi Gakuhari, Shigeki Nakagome, Simon Rasmussen, M. Allentoft +24 more
2020Communications Biology62 citations Open access
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Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day Denmark
K. M. Frei, Sophie Bergerbrant, K. Sjögren, M. Jørkov +7 more
2019PLoS ONE62 citations Open access
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A matter of months: High precision migration chronology of a Bronze Age female
K. Frei, Chiara Villa, M. Jørkov, M. Allentoft +10 more
2017PLoS ONE61 citations Open access
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Ancient pathogen DNA in human teeth and petrous bones
A. Margaryan, H. B. Hansen, Simon Rasmussen, Martin Sikora +10 more
2018Ecology and Evolution53 citations Open access
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Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers
F. Seersholm, K. Sjögren, J. Koelman, M. Blank +22 more
2024Nature48 citations Open access
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Eight Millennia of Matrilineal Genetic Continuity in the South Caucasus.
A. Margaryan, M. Derenko, Hrant Hovhannisyan, B. Malyarchuk +14 more
2017Current Biology45 citations Open access
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The rise of genomics in snake venom research: recent advances and future perspectives
Wei-Qiao Rao, K. Kalogeropoulos, M. Allentoft, S. Gopalakrishnan +10 more
2022GigaScience41 citations Open access
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The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia
Martin Sikora, Elisabetta Canteri, A. Fernàndez-Guerra, Nikolay Oskolkov +21 more
2025Nature40 citations Open access
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Approaching sheep herds origins and the emergence of the wool economy in continental Europe during the Bronze Age
S. Sabatini, S. Bergerbrant, L. Ø. Brandt, A. Margaryan +1 more
2019Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences39 citations Open access
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Identifying commoners in the Early Bronze Age: burials outside barrows
Sophie Bergerbrant, K. Kristiansen, M. Allentoft, K. Frei +3 more
201726 citations
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Genomic Steppe ancestry in skeletons from the Neolithic Single Grave Culture in Denmark
Anne Friis-Holm Egfjord, A. Margaryan, A. Fischer, K. Sjögren +9 more
2021PLoS ONE24 citations Open access
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