Mait Metspalu

Research interests

Publications

• The genetic history of admixture across inner Eurasia

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2019 · 10.1038/s41559-019-0878-2

• Multiple Deeply Divergent Denisovan Ancestries in Papuans

  Cell · 2019 · 10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.035

• Extensive Farming in Estonia Started through a Sex-Biased Migration from the Steppe

  Current Biology · 2017 · 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.022

• Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

  Nature · 2016 · 10.1038/nature19792

• The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18964

• A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18299

• Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation

  Science · 2015 · 10.1126/science.aab3761

• The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Turkic-Speaking Nomads across Eurasia

  PLoS Genetics · 2015 · 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005068

• Early Divergent Strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 Years Ago

  Cell · 2015 · 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.009

• Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

  Science · 2015 · 10.1126/science.aab3884

• A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture

  Genome Research · 2015 · 10.1101/gr.186684.114

• Genetic Heritage of the Balto-Slavic Speaking Populations: A Synthesis of Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosomal Data

  PLoS ONE · 2015 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0135820

• Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14507

• The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

  Nature · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13025

• Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

  Nature · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12736

• A “Copernican” Reassessment of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Tree from its Root

  The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2012 · 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.03.002

• An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

  Science · 2011 · 10.1126/science.1211177

• The Caucasus as an Asymmetric Semipermeable Barrier to Ancient Human Migrations

  Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2011 · 10.1093/molbev/msr221

• The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people

  Nature · 2010 · 10.1038/nature09103

• Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

  Nature · 2010 · 10.1038/nature08835

• Paleo-Eskimo mtDNA Genome Reveals Matrilineal Discontinuity in Greenland

  Science · 2008 · 10.1126/science.1159750

• Beringian Standstill and Spread of Native American Founders

  PLoS ONE · 2007 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0000829

• Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans

  BMC Genetics · 2004 · 10.1186/1471-2156-5-26

• The Genetic Heritage of the Earliest Settlers Persists Both in Indian Tribal and Caste Populations

  The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2003 · 10.1086/346068

• Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages

  Current Biology · 1999 · 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)80057-3

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