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Richard Villems
Researcher at University of Tartu
Publications - 168
Citations - 22214
Richard Villems is an academic researcher from University of Tartu. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Haplogroup. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 168 publications receiving 20176 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Villems include Estonian Biocentre & Estonian Academy of Sciences.
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The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations
Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Heng Li,Mark Lipson,Iain Mathieson,Melissa Gymrek,Fernando Racimo,Mengyao Zhao,Mengyao Zhao,Mengyao Zhao,Niru Chennagiri,Niru Chennagiri,Niru Chennagiri,Susanne Nordenfelt,Susanne Nordenfelt,Susanne Nordenfelt,Arti Tandon,Arti Tandon,Pontus Skoglund,Pontus Skoglund,Iosif Lazaridis,Iosif Lazaridis,Sriram Sankararaman,Sriram Sankararaman,Sriram Sankararaman,Qiaomei Fu,Qiaomei Fu,Qiaomei Fu,Nadin Rohland,Nadin Rohland,Gabriel Renaud,Yaniv Erlich,Thomas Willems,Carla Gallo,Jeffrey P. Spence,Yun S. Song,Yun S. Song,Giovanni Poletti,Francois Balloux,George van Driem,Peter de Knijff,Irene Gallego Romero,Aashish R. Jha,Doron M. Behar,Claudio M. Bravi,Cristian Capelli,Tor Hervig,Andrés Moreno-Estrada,Olga L. Posukh,Elena Balanovska,Oleg Balanovsky,Sena Karachanak-Yankova,Hovhannes Sahakyan,Hovhannes Sahakyan,Draga Toncheva,Levon Yepiskoposyan,Chris Tyler-Smith,Yali Xue,M. Syafiq Abdullah,Andres Ruiz-Linares,Cynthia M. Beall,Anna Di Rienzo,Choongwon Jeong,Elena B. Starikovskaya,Ene Metspalu,Ene Metspalu,Jüri Parik,Richard Villems,Richard Villems,Richard Villems,Brenna M. Henn,Ugur Hodoglugil,Robert W. Mahley,Antti Sajantila,George Stamatoyannopoulos,Joseph Wee,Rita Khusainova,Elza Khusnutdinova,Sergey Litvinov,Sergey Litvinov,George Ayodo,David Comas,Michael F. Hammer,Toomas Kivisild,Toomas Kivisild,William Klitz,Cheryl A. Winkler,Damian Labuda,Michael J. Bamshad,Lynn B. Jorde,Sarah A. Tishkoff,W. Scott Watkins,Mait Metspalu,Stanislav Dryomov,Rem I. Sukernik,Lalji Singh,Lalji Singh,Kumarasamy Thangaraj,Svante Pääbo,Janet Kelso,Nick Patterson,David Reich,David Reich,David Reich +104 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andamanese do not derive substantial ancestry from an early dispersal of modern humans; instead, their modern human ancestry is consistent with coming from the same source as that of other non-Africans.
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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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Tracing European founder lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA pool.
Martin B. Richards,Martin B. Richards,Vincent Macaulay,Eileen Hickey,Emilce Vega,Bryan Sykes,Valentina Guida,Chiara Rengo,Chiara Rengo,Daniele Sellitto,Fulvio Cruciani,Toomas Kivisild,Richard Villems,Mark G. Thomas,Serge Rychkov,Oksana Rychkov,Yuri Rychkov,Mukaddes Gölge,Dimitar Dimitrov,Emmeline W. Hill,Daniel G. Bradley,Valentino Romano,Francesco Calì,Giuseppe Vona,Andrew G. Demaine,Surinder S. Papiha,Costas Triantaphyllidis,Gheorghe Stefanescu,Jiří Hatina,Michele Belledi,Anna Di Rienzo,Andrea Novelletto,Ariella Oppenheim,Søren Nørby,Nadia Al-Zaheri,S. Santachiara-Benerecetti,Rosaria Scozzari,Antonio Torroni,Antonio Torroni,Hans-Jürgen Bandelt +39 more
TL;DR: There has been substantial back-migration into the Near East, there was a founder effect or bottleneck associated with the Last Glacial Maximum, 20,000 years ago, and a way to account for multiple dispersals of common sequence types is suggested.
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Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans
Maanasa Raghavan,Pontus Skoglund,Kelly E. Graf,Mait Metspalu,Anders Albrechtsen,Ida Moltke,Simon Rasmussen,Thomas W. Stafford,Ludovic Orlando,Ene Metspalu,Monika Karmin,Kristiina Tambets,Siiri Rootsi,Reedik Mägi,Paula F. Campos,Elena Balanovska,Oleg Balanovsky,Elza Khusnutdinova,Sergey Litvinov,Ludmila P. Osipova,Sardana A. Fedorova,Mikhail Voevoda,Michael DeGiorgio,Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén,Søren Brunak,Svetlana Demeshchenko,Toomas Kivisild,Richard Villems,Rasmus Nielsen,Mattias Jakobsson,Eske Willerslev +30 more
TL;DR: The findings reveal that western Eurasian genetic signatures in modern-day Native Americans derive not only from post-Columbian admixture, as commonly thought, but also from a mixed ancestry of the First Americans.
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Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo
Morten Rasmussen,Yingrui Li,Stinus Lindgreen,Jakob Skou Pedersen,Anders Albrechtsen,Ida Moltke,Mait Metspalu,Ene Metspalu,Toomas Kivisild,Toomas Kivisild,Ramneek Gupta,Marcelo Bertalan,Kasper Nielsen,M. Thomas P. Gilbert,Yong Wang,Maanasa Raghavan,Maanasa Raghavan,Paula F. Campos,Hanne Munkholm Kamp,Andrew Wilson,Andrew Gledhill,Silvana R. Tridico,Silvana R. Tridico,Michael Bunce,Eline D. Lorenzen,Jonas Binladen,Xiaosen Guo,Jing Zhao,Xiuqing Zhang,Hao Zhang,Zhuo Li,Minfeng Chen,Ludovic Orlando,Karsten Kristiansen,Mads Bak,Niels Tommerup,Christian Bendixen,Tracey Pierre,Bjarne Grønnow,Morten Meldgaard,Claus Andreasen,S. A. Fedorova,S. A. Fedorova,Ludmila P. Osipova,Thomas Higham,Christopher Bronk Ramsey,Thomas Hansen,Finn Cilius Nielsen,Michael H. Crawford,Søren Brunak,Søren Brunak,Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén,Richard Villems,Rasmus Nielsen,Rasmus Nielsen,Anders Krogh,Jun Wang,Eske Willerslev +57 more
TL;DR: This genome sequence of an ancient human obtained from ∼4,000-year-old permafrost-preserved hair provides evidence for a migration from Siberia into the New World some 5,500 years ago, independent of that giving rise to the modern Native Americans and Inuit.