Charleen Gaunitz

Charleen Gaunitz

Research consultant


  1. 2024
  2. Published

    Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations

    Barrie, W., Yang, Y., Irving-Pease, E. K., Attfield, K. E., Scorrano, G., Jensen, L. T., Armen, A. P., Dimopoulos, E. A., Stern, A., Refoyo-Martinez, A., Pearson, A., Ramsøe, A., Gaunitz, C., Demeter, F., Jørkov, M. L. S., Møller, S. B., Springborg, B., Klassen, L., Hyldgård, I. M., Wickmann, N. & 11 others, Vinner, Lasse, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sikora, Martin, Kristiansen, Kristian, Rodriguez, S., Nielsen, Rasmus, Iversen, A. K. N., Lawson, D. J., Fugger, Lars & Willerslev, Eske, 2024, In: Nature. 625, 7994, p. 321-328

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

    Allentoft, M. E., Sikora, M., Refoyo-Martínez, A., Irving-Pease, E. K., Fischer, A., Barrie, W., Ingason, A., Stenderup, J., Sjögren, K-G., Pearson, A., da Mota, B. S., Paulsson, B. S., Halgren, A., Macleod, R., Jørkov, M. L. S., Demeter, F., Sørensen, L., Nielsen, P. O., Henriksen, R. A., Vimala, T. & 144 others, McColl, Hugh, Margaryan, Ashot, Ilardo, M., Vaughn, Andrew Howland, Mortensen, M. F., Nielsen, A. B., Hede, M. U., Johannsen, N. N., Rasmussen, P., Vinner, Lasse, Renaud, Gabriel, Stern, A., Jensen, Theis Zetner Trolle, Scorrano, Gabriele, Schroeder, Hannes, Lysdahl, P., Ramsøe, Abigail Daisy, Skorobogatov, A., Schork, Andrew Joseph, Rosengren, A., Ruter, Anthony Henry, Outram, A., Timoshenko, A. A., Buzhilova, A., Coppa, A., Zubova, A., Silva, A. M., Hansen, Anders Johannes, Gromov, A., Logvin, A., Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte, Nielsen, B. H., González-Rabanal, B., Lalueza-Fox, C., McKenzie, C. J., Gaunitz, Charleen, Blasco, C., Liesau, C., Martinez-Labarga, C., Pozdnyakov, D. V., Cuenca-Solana, D., Lordkipanidze, D. O., En’shin, D., Salazar-García, D. C., Price, T. D., Borić, D., Kostyleva, E., Veselovskaya, E. V., Usmanova, E. R., Cappellini, Enrico, Petersen, Erik Brinch, Kannegaard, E., Radina, F., Yediay, Fulya Eylem, Duday, H., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Merts, I., Potekhina, I., Shevnina, I., Altinkaya, Isin, Guilaine, J., Hansen, J., Tortosa, J. E. A., Zilhão, J., Vega, J., Pedersen, K. B., Tunia, K., Zhao, Lei, Mylnikova, L. N., Larsson, L., Metz, L., Yepiskoposyan, L., Pedersen, L., Sarti, L., Orlando, L., Slimak, L., Klassen, L., Blank, M., González-Morales, M., Silvestrini, M., Vretemark, M., Nesterova, M. S., Rykun, M., Rolfo, M. F., Szmyt, M., Przybyła, M., Calattini, M., Sablin, M., Dobisíková, M., Meldgaard, Morten, Johansen, M., Berezina, N., Card, N., Saveliev, N. A., Poshekhonova, O., Rickards, O., Lozovskaya, O. V., Gábor, O., Uldum, O. C., Aurino, P., Kosintsev, P., Courtaud, P., Ríos, P., Mortensen, P., Lotz, P., Persson, P., Bangsgaard, P., de Barros Damgaard, P., Vang Petersen, P., Martinez, P. P., Włodarczak, P., Smolyaninov, R. V., Maring, R., Menduiña, R., Badalyan, R., Iversen, Rune, Turin, R., Vasilyev, S., Wåhlin, S., Borutskaya, S., Skochina, S., Sørensen, S. A., Andersen, S. H., Jørgensen, T., Serikov, Y. B., Molodin, V. I., Smrcka, V., Merts, V., Appadurai, V., Moiseyev, V., Magnusson, Y., Kjær, Kurt H., Lynnerup, Niels, Lawson, D. J., Sudmant, P. H., Rasmussen, Simon, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Durbin, R., Nielsen, Rasmus, Delaneau, O., Werge, Thomas, Racimo, Fernando, Kristiansen, Kristian & Willerslev, Eske, 2024, In: Nature. 625, 7994, p. 301-311

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  4. 2022
  5. Published

    A Middle Pleistocene Denisovan molar from the Annamite Chain of northern Laos

    Demeter, F., Zanolli, C., Westaway, K. E., Joannes-Boyau, R., Duringer, P., Morley, M. W., Welker, F., Rüther, P. L., Skinner, M. M., McColl, H., Gaunitz, C., Vinner, L., Dunn, T. E., Olsen, J. V., Sikora, M., Ponche, J-L., Suzzoni, E., Frangeul, S., Boesch, Q., Antoine, P-O. & 20 others, Pan, L., Xing, S., Zhao, J., Bailey, R. M., Boualaphane, S., Sichanthongtip, P., Sihanam, D., Patole-Edoumba, E., Aubaile, F., Crozier, F., Bourgon, N., Zachwieja, A., Luangkhoth, T., Souksavatdy, V., Sayavongkhamdy, T., Cappellini, Enrico, Bacon, A., Hublin, J., Willerslev, Eske & Shackelford, L., 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 17 p., 2557.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Genetic risk for Multiple Sclerosis originated in Pastoralist Steppe populations

    Barrie, W., Yang, Y., Attfield, K. E., Irving-Pease, E., Scorrano, G., Jensen, L. T., Armen, A. P., Dimopoulos, E. A., Stern, A., Refoyo-Martínez, A., Ramsøe, A., Gaunitz, C., Demeter, F., Jørkov, M. L. S., Møller, S. B., Springborg, B., Klassen, L., Hyldgård, I. M., Wickmann, N., Vinner, L. & 9 others, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Sikora, Martin, Kristiansen, K., Rodriguez, S., Nielsen, Rasmus, Iversen, A. K. N., Lawson, D. J., Fugger, L. & Willerslev, Eske, 2022, bioRxiv, 55 p.

    Research output: Working paperPreprintResearch

  7. Published

    Population Genomics of Stone Age Eurasia

    Allentoft, M. E., Sikora, M., Refoyo-Martínez, A., Irving-Pease, E. K., Fischer, A., Barrie, W., Ingason, A., Stenderup, J., Sjögren, K-G., Pearson, A., Mota, B., Paulsson, B. S., Halgren, A., Macleod, R., Schjellerup Jørkov, M. L., Demeter, F., Novosolov, M., Sørensen, L., Nielsen, P-O., Henriksen, R. H. A. & 143 others, Vimala, Tharsika, McColl, Hugh, Margaryan, Ashot, Ilardo, M., Vaughn, A., Mortensen, M. F., Nielsen, A. B., Hede, M. U., Rasmussen, P., Vinner, Lasse, Renaud, Gabriel, Stern, A., Jensen, Theis Zetner Trolle, Johannsen, N. N., Scorrano, Gabriele, Schroeder, Hannes, Lysdahl, P., Ramsøe, Abigail Daisy, Skorobogatov, A., Schork, Andrew Joseph, Rosengren, A., Ruter, Anthony Henry, Outram, A., Timoshenko, A. A., Buzhilova, A., Coppa, A., Zubova, A., Silva, A. M., Hansen, Anders Johannes, Gromov, A., Logvin, A., Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte, Nielsen, B. H., González-Rabanal, B., Lalueza-Fox, C., McKenzie, C. J., Gaunitz, Charleen, Blasco, C., Liesau, C., Martinez-Labarga, C., Pozdnyakov, D. V., Cuenca-Solana, D., Lordkipanidze, D. O., En’shin, D., Salazar-García, D. C., Price, T. D., Borić, D., Kostyleva, E., Veselovskaya, E. V., Usmanova, E. R., Cappellini, Enrico, Petersen, Erik Brinch, Kannegaard, E., Radina, F., Yediay, Fulya Eylem, Duday, H., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Potekhina, I., Shevnina, I., Altinkaya, Isin, Guilaine, J., Hansen, J., Tortosa, J. E. A., Zilhão, J., Vega, J., Pedersen, K. B., Tunia, K., Zhao, Lei, Mylnikova, L. N., Larsson, L., Metz, L., Yeppiskoposyan, L., Pedersen, L., Sarti, L., Orlando, L., Slimak, L., Klassen, L., Blank, M., González-Morales, M., Silvestrini, M., Vretemark, M., Nesterova, M. S., Rykun, M., Rolfo, M. F., Szmyt, M., Przybyła, M., Calattini, M., Sablin, M., Dobisíková, M., Meldgaard, Morten, Johansen, M., Berezina, N., Card, N., Saveliev, N. A., Poshekhonova, O., Rickards, O., Lozovskaya, O. V., Uldum, O. C., Aurino, P., Kosintsev, P., Courtaud, P., Ríos, P., Mortensen, P., Lotz, P., Persson, P. Å., Bangsgaard, P., Damgaard, P. D. B., Petersen, P. V., Martinez, P. P., Włodarczak, P., Smolyaninov, R. V., Maring, R., Menduiña, R., Badalyan, R., Iversen, Rune, Turin, R., Vasilyiev, S., Wåhlin, S., Borutskaya, S., Skochina, S., Sørensen, S. A., Andersen, S. H., Jørgensen, T., Serikov, Y. B., Molodin, V. I., Smrcka, V., Merz, V., Appadurai, V., Moiseyev, V., Magnusson, Y., Kjær, Kurt H., Lynnerup, Niels, Lawson, D. J., Sudmant, P. H., Rasmussen, Simon, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Durbin, R., Nielsen, R., Delaneau, O., Werge, Thomas, Racimo, Fernando, Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2022, p. 1-71, (bioRxiv).

    Research output: Working paperPreprintResearch

  8. 2020
  9. Published

    The mules that are not mules-metrics, morphology, archaeogenomics and mtDNA d-loop diversity in equids from Roman Switzerland

    Granado, J. D., Dill, N., Gaunitz, Charleen, Fages, A., Khan, N., Mraz, M. S., Deschler-Erb, S., Orlando, L. & Schlumbaum, A., 2020, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 123, 9 p., 105253.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  10. 2019
  11. Published

    Reconstructing the History of Biological Changes Underlying Extinction and Domestication Processes: A Tale from Ancient Horse Genomics

    Gaunitz, Charleen, 2019, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.

    Research output: Book/ReportPh.D. thesis

  12. Published

    Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series

    Fages, A., Hanghøj, K., Khan, N., Gaunitz, C., Seguin-Orlando, A., Leonardi, M., McCrory Constantz, C., Gamba, C., Al-Rasheid, K. A. S., Albizuri, S., Alfarhan, A. H., Allentoft, M., Alquraishi, S., Anthony, D., Baimukhanov, N., Barrett, J. H., Bayarsaikhan, J., Benecke, N., Bernáldez-Sánchez, E., Berrocal-Rangel, L. & 101 others, Biglari, F., Boessenkool, S., Boldgiv, B., Brem, G., Brown, D., Burger, J., Crubézy, E., Daugnora, L., Davoudi, H., Damgaard, P. D. B., de los Ángeles de Chorro y de Villa-Ceballos, M., Deschler-Erb, S., Detry, C., Dill, N., do Mar Oom, M., Dohr, A., Ellingvåg, S., Erdenebaatar, D., Fathi, H., Felkel, S., Fernández-Rodríguez, C., García-Viñas, E., Germonpré, M., Granado, J. D., Hallsson, J. H., Hemmer, H., Hofreiter, M., Kasparov, A., Khasanov, M., Khazaeli, R., Kosintsev, P., Kristiansen, K., Kubatbek, T., Kuderna, L., Kuznetsov, P., Laleh, H., Leonard, J. A., Lhuillier, J., Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck, C., Logvin, A., Lõugas, L., Ludwig, A., Luis, C., Arruda, A. M., Marques-Bonet, T., Matoso Silva, R., Merz, V., Mijiddorj, E., Miller, B. K., Monchalov, O., Mohaseb, F. A., Morales, A., Nieto-Espinet, A., Nistelberger, H., Onar, V., Pálsdóttir, A. H., Pitulko, V., Pitskhelauri, K., Pruvost, M., Rajic Sikanjic, P., Rapan Papeša, A., Roslyakova, N., Sardari, A., Sauer, E., Schafberg, R., Scheu, A., Schibler, J., Schlumbaum, A., Serrand, N., Serres-Armero, A., Shapiro, B., Sheikhi Seno, S., Shevnina, I., Shidrang, S., Southon, J., Star, B., Sykes, N., Taheri, K., Taylor, W., Teegen, W. R., Trbojević Vukičević, T., Trixl, S., Tumen, D., Undrakhbold, S., Usmanova, E., Vahdati, A., Valenzuela-Lamas, S., Viegas, C., Wallner, B., Weinstock, J., Zaibert, V., Clavel, B., Lepetz, S., Mashkour, M., Helgason, A., Stefánsson, K., Barrey, E., Willerslev, Eske, Outram, A. K., Librado, P. & Orlando, L., 2019, In: Cell. 177, 6, p. 1419-1435, e1-e31

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  13. 2018
  14. Published

    Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski's horses

    Gaunitz, C., Fages, A. A., Hanghøj, K. E., Albrechtsen, A., Khan, N., Schubert, M., Seguin-Orlando, A., Owens, I. J., Felkel, S., Bignon-Lau, O., Damgaard, P. D. B., Mittnik, A., Mohaseb, A. F., Davoudi, H., Alquraishi, S., Alfarhan, A. H., Al-Rasheid, K. A. S., Crubézy, E., Benecke, N., Olsen, S. & 27 others, Brown, D., Anthony, D., Massy, K., Pitulko, V., Kasparov, A., Brem, G., Hofreiter, M., Mukhtarova, G., Baimukhanov, N., Lõugas, L., Onar, V., Stockhammer, P. W., Krause, J., Boldgiv, B., Undrakhbold, S., Erdenebaatar, D., Lepetz, S., Mashkour, M., Ludwig, A., Wallner, B., Merz, V., Merz, I., Zaibert, V., Willerslev, Eske, Sanz, P. L., Outram, A. K. & Orlando, L. A. A., 2018, In: Science. 360, 6384, p. 111-114 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  15. 2017
  16. Published

    Experimental conditions improving in-solution target enrichment for ancient DNA

    Cruz-Dávalos, D. I., Llamas, B., Gaunitz, Charleen, Fages, A. A., Gamba, C., Soubrier, J., Sanz, P. L., Seguin-Orlando, A., Pruvost, M., Alfarhan, A. H., Alquraishi, S. A., Al-Rasheid, K. A. S., Scheu, A., Beneke, N., Ludwig, A., Cooper, A., Willerslev, Eske & Orlando, L. A. A., May 2017, In: Molecular Ecology Resources. 17, 3, p. 508-522 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Ancient genomic changes associated with domestication of the horse

    Sanz, P. L., Gamba, C., Gaunitz, C., Der Sarkissian, C., Pruvost, M., Albrechtsen, A., Fages, A. A., Khan, N., Schubert, M., Jagannathan, V., Serres-Armero, A., Kuderna, L. F. K., Povolotskaya, I. S., Seguin-Orlando, A., Lepetz, S., Neuditschko, M., Thèves, C., Alquraishi, S., Alfarhan, A. H., AL-Rasheid, K. & 13 others, Rieder, S., Samashev, Z., Francfort, H., Benecke, N., Hofreiter, M., Ludwig, A., Keyser, C., Marques-Bonet, T., Ludes, B., Crubézy, E., Leeb, T., Willerslev, Eske & Orlando, L. A. A., 28 Apr 2017, In: Science. 356, 6336, p. 442-445 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Zonkey: a simple, accurate and sensitive pipeline to genetically identify equine Fl-hybrids in archaeological assemblages

    Schubert, Mikkel, Mashkour, M., Gaunitz, Charleen, Fages, A. A., Seguin-Orlando, A., Sheikhi, S., Alfarhan, A. H., Alquraishi, S. A., Al-Rasheid, K. A. S., Chuang, R., Ermini, L., Gamba, C., Weinstock, J., Vedat, O. & Orlando, L. A. A., Feb 2017, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 78, p. 147-157 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  19. 2016
  20. Published

    The evolutionary origin and genetic makeup of domestic horses

    Sanz, P. L., Fages, A. A., Gaunitz, Charleen, Leonardi, M., Wagner, S., Khan, N., Hanghøj, Kristian Ebbesen, Alquraishi, S. A., Alfarhan, A. H., Al-Rasheid, K. A., Der Sarkissian, C., Schubert, Mikkel & Orlando, L. A. A., Oct 2016, In: Genetics. 204, 2, p. 423-434 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewpeer-review

  21. Published

    Comparing the performance of three ancient DNA extraction methods for high-throughput sequencing

    Gamba, C., Hanghøj, Kristian Ebbesen, Gaunitz, Charleen, Alfarhan, A. H., Alquraishi, S. A., Al-Rasheid, K. A. S., Bradley, D. G. & Orlando, L. A. A., 2016, In: Molecular Ecology Resources. 16, 2, p. 459-469 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

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