Eurogenes Blog

In my last blog post I made a mistake in my interpretation of this quote from Lazaridis, Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. , because it confused th...

Update 29/08/22: Dear Iosif #2 ... I'm skimming through the Lazaridis, Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. paper that just came out at Scie...

I updated my Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of Mediterranean populations with most of the ancient Jewish samples from the Waldman et al....

I had a quick look at the genotype data from the recent Waldman et al. preprint focusing on the ancestry of early Jews from Erfurt, Germany...

Harvard's David Reich is doing a talk next month about the genetic history of West Asia and nearby parts of Europe. This is a quote from...

It's that time of the academic year again when bioRxiv is inundated with ancient DNA preprints. I'm not complaining, but I almost s...

Over at bioRxiv at this LINK . Here's the abstract: We report genome-wide data for 33 Ashkenazi Jews (AJ), dated to the 14th century,...

Over at bioRxiv at this LINK . It'll take me a few days to read this manuscript properly. Here's the abstract: The transitions fr...

I don't like discussing current events and politics here, but it's impossible to ignore what is happening in Eastern Europe. It...

In a recent paper about complex traits in Europeans, Marnetto et al. found that blond hair and blue eyes showed a relatively high associati...