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Alissa Mittnik
Researcher at University of Tübingen
Publications - 27
Citations - 6598
Alissa Mittnik is an academic researcher from University of Tübingen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Bronze Age. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 21 publications receiving 5090 citations. Previous affiliations of Alissa Mittnik include Max Planck Society.
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Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe
Wolfgang Haak,Iosif Lazaridis,Nick Patterson,Nadin Rohland,Swapan Mallick,Bastien Llamas,Guido Brandt,Susanne Nordenfelt,Eadaoin Harney,Kristin Stewardson,Qiaomei Fu,Alissa Mittnik,Eszter Bánffy,Christos Economou,Michael Francken,Susanne Friederich,Rafael Garrido Pena,Fredrik Hallgren,Valery Khartanovich,Aleksandr Khokhlov,Michael Kunst,Pavel Kuznetsov,Harald Meller,Oleg Mochalov,Vayacheslav Moiseyev,Nicole Nicklisch,Sandra Pichler,Roberto Risch,Manuel Ángel Rojo Guerra,Christina Roth,Anna Szécsényi-Nagy,Joachim Wahl,Matthias Meyer,Johannes Krause,Dorcas Brown,David W. Anthony,Alan Cooper,Kurt W. Alt,David Reich +38 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000-3,000 years ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms.
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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
Iosif Lazaridis,Iosif Lazaridis,Nick Patterson,Alissa Mittnik,Gabriel Renaud,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Karola Kirsanow,Peter H. Sudmant,Joshua G. Schraiber,Joshua G. Schraiber,Sergi Castellano,Mark Lipson,Bonnie Berger,Bonnie Berger,Christos Economou,Ruth Bollongino,Qiaomei Fu,Kirsten I. Bos,Susanne Nordenfelt,Susanne Nordenfelt,Heng Li,Heng Li,Cesare de Filippo,Kay Prüfer,Susanna Sawyer,Cosimo Posth,Wolfgang Haak,Fredrik Hallgren,Elin Fornander,Nadin Rohland,Nadin Rohland,Dominique Delsate,Michael Francken,Jean-Michel Guinet,Joachim Wahl,George Ayodo,Hamza A. Babiker,Hamza A. Babiker,Graciela Bailliet,Elena Balanovska,Oleg Balanovsky,Ramiro Barrantes,Gabriel Bedoya,Haim Ben-Ami,Judit Bene,Fouad Berrada,Claudio M. Bravi,Francesca Brisighelli,George B.J. Busby,Francesco Calì,Mikhail Churnosov,David E. C. Cole,Daniel Corach,Larissa Damba,George van Driem,Stanislav Dryomov,Jean-Michel Dugoujon,Sardana A. Fedorova,Irene Gallego Romero,Marina Gubina,Michael F. Hammer,Brenna M. Henn,Tor Hervig,Ugur Hodoglugil,Aashish R. Jha,Sena Karachanak-Yankova,Rita Khusainova,Elza Khusnutdinova,Rick A. Kittles,Toomas Kivisild,William Klitz,Vaidutis Kučinskas,Alena Kushniarevich,Leila Laredj,Sergey Litvinov,Theologos Loukidis,Theologos Loukidis,Robert W. Mahley,Béla Melegh,Ene Metspalu,Julio Molina,Joanna L. Mountain,Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi,Desislava Nesheva,Thomas B. Nyambo,Ludmila P. Osipova,Jüri Parik,Fedor Platonov,Olga L. Posukh,Valentino Romano,Francisco Rothhammer,Francisco Rothhammer,Igor Rudan,Ruslan Ruizbakiev,Hovhannes Sahakyan,Hovhannes Sahakyan,Antti Sajantila,Antonio Salas,Elena B. Starikovskaya,Ayele Tarekegn,Draga Toncheva,Shahlo Turdikulova,Ingrida Uktveryte,Olga Utevska,René Vasquez,Mercedes Villena,Mikhail Voevoda,Cheryl A. Winkler,Levon Yepiskoposyan,Pierre Zalloua,Pierre Zalloua,Tatijana Zemunik,Alan Cooper,Cristian Capelli,Mark G. Thomas,Andres Ruiz-Linares,Sarah A. Tishkoff,Lalji Singh,Kumarasamy Thangaraj,Richard Villems,Richard Villems,Richard Villems,David Comas,Rem I. Sukernik,Mait Metspalu,Matthias Meyer,Evan E. Eichler,Joachim Burger,Montgomery Slatkin,Svante Pääbo,Janet Kelso,David Reich,David Reich,David Reich,Johannes Krause,Johannes Krause +136 more
TL;DR: It is shown that most present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: west European hunter-gatherers, who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; ancient north Eurasians related to Upper Palaeolithic Siberians; and early European farmers, who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harboured west Europeanhunter-gatherer related ancestry.
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The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
Qiaomei Fu,Cosimo Posth,Cosimo Posth,Mateja Hajdinjak,Martin Petr,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Daniel Fernandes,Daniel Fernandes,Anja Furtwängler,Wolfgang Haak,Wolfgang Haak,Matthias Meyer,Alissa Mittnik,Alissa Mittnik,Birgit Nickel,Alexander Peltzer,Nadin Rohland,Viviane Slon,Sahra Talamo,Iosif Lazaridis,Mark Lipson,Iain Mathieson,Stephan Schiffels,Pontus Skoglund,Anatoly P. Derevianko,Anatoly P. Derevianko,Nikolai I. Drozdov,V. S. Slavinsky,A. A. Tsybankov,Renata Grifoni Cremonesi,Francesco Mallegni,Bernard Gély,E. Vacca,Manuel R. González Morales,Lawrence Guy Straus,Lawrence Guy Straus,Christine Neugebauer-Maresch,Maria Teschler-Nicola,Maria Teschler-Nicola,Silviu Constantin,Oana Teodora Moldovan,Stefano Benazzi,Marco Peresani,Donato Coppola,Martina Lari,Stefano Ricci,Annamaria Ronchitelli,Frédérique Valentin,Corinne Thevenet,Kurt Wehrberger,Dan Grigorescu,Hélène Rougier,Isabelle Crevecoeur,Damien Flas,Patrick Semal,Marcello A. Mannino,Christophe Cupillard,Hervé Bocherens,Nicholas J. Conard,Katerina Harvati,Vyacheslav Moiseyev,Dorothée G. Drucker,Jiří Svoboda,Jiří Svoboda,Michael P. Richards,David Caramelli,Ron Pinhasi,Janet Kelso,Nick Patterson,Johannes Krause,Johannes Krause,Svante Pääbo,David Reich,David Reich,David Reich +76 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from ~45,000-7,000 years ago and find that the proportion of Neanderthal DNA decreased from 3-6% to around 2%, consistent with natural selection against Neanderthal variants in modern humans.
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A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes
Qiaomei Fu,Qiaomei Fu,Alissa Mittnik,Philip L. F. Johnson,Kirsten I. Bos,Kirsten I. Bos,Martina Lari,Ruth Bollongino,Chengkai Sun,Liane Giemsch,Ralf Schmitz,Joachim Burger,Annamaria Ronchitelli,Fabio Martini,Renata Grifoni Cremonesi,Jiří Svoboda,Jiří Svoboda,Peter Bauer,David Caramelli,Sergi Castellano,David Reich,David Reich,Svante Pääbo,Johannes Krause +23 more
TL;DR: This work uses mitochondrial genome sequences from ten securely dated ancient modern humans spanning 40,000 years as calibration points for the mitochondrial clock, thus yielding a direct estimate of the mitochondrial substitution rate and implies a separation of non-Africans from the most closely related sub-Saharan African mitochondrial DNAs that occurred less than 62-95 kya.
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The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe
Iñigo Olalde,Selina Brace,Morten E. Allentoft,Ian Armit,Kristian Kristiansen,Thomas J. Booth,Nadin Rohland,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Anna Szécsényi-Nagy,Alissa Mittnik,Alissa Mittnik,Eveline Altena,Mark Lipson,Iosif Lazaridis,Iosif Lazaridis,Thomas K. Harper,Nick Patterson,Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht,Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht,Yoan Diekmann,Zuzana Faltyskova,Daniel Fernandes,Daniel Fernandes,Daniel Fernandes,Matthew Ferry,Matthew Ferry,Eadaoin Harney,Peter de Knijff,Megan Michel,Megan Michel,Jonas Oppenheimer,Jonas Oppenheimer,Kristin Stewardson,Kristin Stewardson,Alistair Barclay,Kurt W. Alt,Kurt W. Alt,Corina Liesau,Patricia Ríos,Concepción Blasco,Jorge Vega de Miguel,Roberto Menduiña García,Azucena Avilés Fernández,Eszter Bánffy,Eszter Bánffy,Maria Bernabò-Brea,David Billoin,Clive Bonsall,Laura Bonsall,Tim Allen,Lindsey Büster,Sophie Carver,Laura Castells Navarro,Oliver E. Craig,Gordon Cook,Barry Cunliffe,Anthony Denaire,Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy,Natasha Dodwell,Michal Ernée,Christopher Evans,Milan Kuchařík,Joan Francès Farré,Chris Fowler,Michiel Gazenbeek,Rafael Garrido Pena,María Haber-Uriarte,Elżbieta Haduch,Gill Hey,Nick Jowett,Timothy D J Knowles,Ken Massy,Saskia Pfrengle,Philippe Lefranc,Olivier Lemercier,Arnaud Lefebvre,Arnaud Lefebvre,César Heras Martínez,Virginia Galera Olmo,Ana Bastida Ramírez,Joaquín Lomba Maurandi,Tona Majó,Jacqueline I. McKinley,Kathleen McSweeney,Balázs Gusztáv Mende,Alessandra Modi,Gabriella Kulcsár,Viktória Kiss,András Czene,Róbert Patay,Anna Endrődi,Kitti Köhler,Tamás Hajdu,Tamás Hajdu,Tamás Szeniczey,János Dani,Zsolt Bernert,Maya Hoole,Olivia Cheronet,Olivia Cheronet,Denise Keating,Petr Velemínský,Miroslav Dobeš,Francesca Candilio,Francesca Candilio,Fraser Brown,Raúl Flores Fernández,Ana-Mercedes Herrero-Corral,Sebastiano Tusa,Emiliano Carnieri,Luigi Lentini,Antonella Valenti,Alessandro Zanini,Clive Waddington,Germán Delibes,Elisa Guerra-Doce,Benjamin Neil,Marcus Brittain,Mike Luke,Richard Mortimer,Jocelyne Desideri,Marie Besse,Günter Brücken,Mirosław Furmanek,Agata Hałuszko,Maksym Mackiewicz,Artur Rapiński,Stephany Leach,Ignacio Soriano,Katina T. Lillios,João Luís Cardoso,João Luís Cardoso,Mike Parker Pearson,Piotr Włodarczak,T. Douglas Price,Pilar Prieto,Pierre-Jérôme Rey,Roberto Risch,Manuel Ángel Rojo Guerra,Aurore Schmitt,Joël Serralongue,Ana Maria Silva,Václav Smrčka,Luc Vergnaud,João Zilhão,João Zilhão,João Zilhão,David Caramelli,Thomas Higham,Mark G. Thomas,Douglas J. Kennett,Harry Fokkens,Volker M Heyd,Volker M Heyd,Alison Sheridan,Karl-Göran Sjögren,Philipp W. Stockhammer,Philipp W. Stockhammer,Johannes Krause,Ron Pinhasi,Ron Pinhasi,Wolfgang Haak,Wolfgang Haak,Ian Barnes,Carles Lalueza-Fox,David Reich,David Reich,David Reich +169 more
TL;DR: Genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans is presented, finding limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and excludes migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions.