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Cases of trisomy 21 and trisomy 18 among historic and prehistoric individuals discovered from ancient DNA (2024)
Journal Article
Rohrlach, A. B., Rivollat, M., de-Miguel-Ibáñez, P., Moilanen, U., Liira, A., Teixeira, J. C., …Prüfer, K. (2024). Cases of trisomy 21 and trisomy 18 among historic and prehistoric individuals discovered from ancient DNA. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 1294. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45438-1

Aneuploidies, and in particular, trisomies represent the most common genetic aberrations observed in human genetics today. To explore the presence of trisomies in historic and prehistoric populations we screen nearly 10,000 ancient human individuals... Read More about Cases of trisomy 21 and trisomy 18 among historic and prehistoric individuals discovered from ancient DNA.

Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community (2023)
Journal Article
Rohrlach, A. B., Ringbauer, H., Childebayeva, A., Mendisco, F., Barquera, R., Szolek, A., …Haak, W. (2023). Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community. Nature, 620(7974), 600-606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06350-8

Social anthropology and ethnographic studies have described kinship systems and networks of contact and exchange in extant populations1,2,3,4. However, for prehistoric societies, these systems can be studied only indirectly from biological and cultur... Read More about Extensive pedigrees reveal the social organization of a Neolithic community.