The history of the British Isles and Ireland is characterized by multiple periods of major
cultural change, including the influential transformation after the end of Roman rule, which …

Genetic imputation is a cost-efficient way to improve the power and resolution of genome-
wide association (GWA) studies. Current publicly accessible imputation reference panels …

Background The genetic origins of Uralic speakers from across a vast territory in the
temperate zone of North Eurasia have remained elusive. Previous studies have shown …

The Y chromosome has been widely explored for the study of human migrations. Due to its
paternal inheritance, the Y chromosome polymorphisms are helpful tools for understanding …

Abstract Background The appearance of Slavs in East-Central Europe has been the subject
of an over 200-year debate driven by two conflicting hypotheses. The first assumes that …

Population biobanks are collections of thoroughly annotated biological material stored for
many years. Population biobanks are a valuable resource for both basic science and …

In this study, we compare the genetic ancestry of individuals from two as yet genetically
unstudied cultural traditions in Estonia in the context of available modern and ancient …

The transition from Stone to Bronze Age in Central and Western Europe was a period of
major population movements originating from the Ponto-Caspian Steppe. Here, we report …

Summary The Early Iron Age nomadic Scythians have been described as a confederation of
tribes of different origins, based on ancient DNA evidence [1–3]. It is still unclear how much …

Haplotype-based analyses have recently been leveraged to interrogate the fine-scale
structure in specific geographic regions, notably in Europe, although an equivalent …