Population Geneticist | Ancient DNA
Research Group Leader at MPI-EVA Leipzig
www.hringbauer.com
Harald Ringbauer
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Link to published paper:
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
And link to prior BlueSky thread on our preprint summarizing our work:
bsky.app/profile/hrin...
Sequencing the emperors is not mere celebrity genomics.
Authentic remains from Medieval people with known life histories build a ressource for improving bioarchaelogical methods (like mapping C14 reservoir effects).
And the genomes will also help identifying other Medieval elites.
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Great to see @annikafreudiger.bsky.social paper published! 🎉
We analyzed how genetic markers are used to estimate relatedness in wild animals - a big field with 2861 relevant publications. 📈🧬
Even in 2026 mainly STRs are used - and we argue for low coverage WGS data and a simple aDNA estimator.
It is great to now have a proper way to cite pileupCaller! The code to generate pseudohaploid genotypes from BAMs is one of the most quoted github code chunks in human ancient DNA research.
Their two Ys are a perfect match too - as in the historic relationship. ✅️
They both are in a R1b haplogroup that is very rare today. The whole male lineage of emperors (which died out with Saint Henry) did not leave a big legacy!
Shoutout to FamilyTreeDNA for a productive collaboration. 🙌
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We just published a brief preprint on aDNA from two Medieval Ottonic emperors. 🧬👑
We confirm via IBD segments that remains attributed to Otto "the Great" and "Saint" Heinrich are third-degree relatives. As historically attested - suggesting that they are authentic. ✅️
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Finally an official publication of Pileupcaller. Please cite. Thanks to @joss-openjournals.bsky.social for the review process and publishing!
Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10)
@biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
New paper alert 🚨
Researchers at #CPGStlhm have analyzed ancient genomes from an Islamic cemetery in Ibiza (950–1150 CE) 🏖️
They found a highly diverse community with ancestry from Europe and North Africa!
The paper was published in @natcomms.nature.com
OA link www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨 Check out our new paper in Nature!
In our new study, we sequenced 128 high-coverage genomes from Indigenous peoples across Latin America and uncovered their unique genetic diversity and history. 👇🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term ada...
New in MEC!
@annikafreudiger.bsky.social et al. assess genetic relatedness on rhesus macaques and find that low-coverage whole-genome sequencing offers an accurate, cost-effective alternative to widely used methods.
@wileyecology.bsky.social
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