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Kristiina Tambets

Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu
Verified email at ut.ee
Cited by 7902

Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

…, L Orlando, E Metspalu, M Karmin, K Tambets… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The origins of the First Americans remain contentious. Although Native Americans seem to
be genetically most closely related to east Asians 1 , 2 , 3 , there is no consensus with regard …

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

…, A Moreno-Estrada, M Karmin, K Tambets… - Science, 2015 - science.org
… When assuming the number of ancestral populations (K) to be four (K = 4), we found a Native
American–specific genetic component, indicating a shared genetic ancestry for all Native …

Genetic discontinuity between local hunter-gatherers and central Europe's first farmers

…, W Haak, M Unterländer, P Jores, K Tambets… - science, 2009 - science.org
After the domestication of animals and crops in the Near East some 11,000 years ago,
farming had reached much of central Europe by 7500 years before the present. The extent to …

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

…, M Eelmets, G Chaubey, K Tambets… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
It is commonly thought that human genetic diversity in non-African populations was shaped
primarily by an out-of-Africa dispersal 50–100 thousand yr ago (kya). Here, we present a …

Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

…, C Tyler-Smith, Y Xue, B Yunusbayev, K Tambets… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
High-coverage whole-genome sequence studies have so far focused on a limited number 1
of geographically restricted populations 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , or been targeted at specific diseases, …

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

…, SSW V, ME Allentoft, OE Cornejo, K Tambets… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Clovis, with its distinctive biface, blade and osseous technologies, is the oldest widespread
archaeological complex defined in North America, dating from 11,100 to 10,700 14 C years …

Genomic diversity and admixture differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian foragers and farmers

…, C Valdiosera, T Günther, P Hall, K Tambets… - Science, 2014 - science.org
… The four TRB individuals were assigned to haplogroups H and K, similar to previous
results (5) and as observed in other Neolithic farmers in Europe (6). The Y chromosome of the …

[PDF][PDF] A signal, from human mtDNA, of postglacial recolonization in Europe

…, E Metspalu, J Parik, HV Tolk, K Tambets… - The American Journal of …, 2001 - cell.com
Mitochondrial HVS-I sequences from 10,365 subjects belonging to 56 populations/geographical
regions of western Eurasia and northern Africa were first surveyed for the presence of …

[PDF][PDF] The western and eastern roots of the Saami—the story of genetic “outliers” told by mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes

K Tambets, S Rootsi, T Kivisild, P Serk… - The American Journal of …, 2004 - cell.com
The Saami are regarded as extreme genetic outliers among European populations. In this
study, a high-resolution phylogenetic analysis of Saami genetic heritage was undertaken in a …

Origin and expansion of haplogroup H, the dominant human mitochondrial DNA lineage in West Eurasia: the Near Eastern and Caucasian perspective

…, EL Loogväli, E Metspalu, K Tambets… - Molecular biology …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
More than a third of the European pool of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is fragmented
into a number of subclades of haplogroup (hg) H, the most frequent hg throughout western …