Martin Sikora

Martin Sikora

Associate Professor


  1. 2019
  2. Published

    Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day Denmark

    Frei, K. M., Bergerbrant, S., Sjögren, K., Jørkov, M L S, Lynnerup, Niels, Harvig, L., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sikora, Martin, Price, T. D., Frei, Robert & Kristiansen, K., 2019, In: PLoS ONE. 14, 8, e0219850.

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  3. Published

    The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

    Sikora, M., Pitulko, V. V., Sousa, V. C., Allentoft, M. E., Vinner, L., Rasmussen, S., Margaryan, A., Damgaard, P. D. B., de la Fuente Castro, C., Renaud, G., Yang, M. A., Fu, Q., Dupanloup, I., Giampoudakis, K., Nogues, D. B., Rahbek, C., Kroonen, G., Peyrot, M., McColl, H., Vasilyev, S. V. & 27 others, Veselovskaya, E., Gerasimova, M., Pavlova, E. Y., Chasnyk, V. G., Nikolskiy, P. A., Gromov, A. V., Khartanovich, V. I., Moiseyev, V., Grebenyuk, P. S., Fedorchenko, A. Y., Lebedintsev, A. I., Slobodin, S. B., Malyarchuk, B. A., Martiniano, R., Meldgaard, Morten, Arppe, L., Palo, J. U., Sundell, T., Mannermaa, K., Putkonen, M., Alexandersen, V., Primeau, C., Baimukhanov, N., Malhi, R. S., Sjögren, K. G., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2019, In: Nature. 570, p. 182–188

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  4. Published

    Unraveling ancestry, kinship, and violence in a Late Neolithic mass grave

    Schroeder, H., Margaryan, A., Szmyt, M., Theulot, B., Włodarczak, P., Rasmussen, S., Gopalakrishnan, S., Szczepanek, A., Konopka, T., Jensen, T. Z. T., Witkowska, B., Wilk, S., Przybyła, M. M., Pospieszny, Ł., Sjögren, K-G., Belka, Z., Olsen, J., Kristiansen, K., Willerslev, E., Frei, K. M. & 3 others, Sikora, Martin, Johannsen, N. N. & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 22, p. 10705-10710

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  5. 2018
  6. Published

    Early human dispersals within the Americas

    Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Vinner, L., de Barros Damgaard, P., de la Fuente, C., Allentoft, M. E., Vimala, T., Racimo, F., Rasmussen, S., Margaryan, A., Iraeta Orbegozo, M., Mylopotamitaki, D., Alexandersen, V., Primeau, C., Gregersen, K., Hansen, K. L., Lynnerup, N., Kjær, K., Schroeder, H., Malaspinas, A. S., Sikora, M. & 2 others, Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 7 Dec 2018, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 362, 6419, p. 1, 1-11 12 p., eaav2621.

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  7. Published

    Ancient nuclear genomes enable repatriation of Indigenous human remains

    Wright, J. L., Wasef, S., Heupink, T. H., Westaway, M. C., Rasmussen, S., Pardoe, C., Fourmile, G. G., Young, M., Johnson, T., Slade, J., Kennedy, R., Winch, P., Pappin, M., Wales, T., Bates, W. ., Hamilton, S., Whyman, N., Van Holst Pellekaan, S., Mcallister, P. J., Taçon, P. S. C. & 8 others, Curnoe, D., Li, R., Millar, C., Subramanian, S., Willerslev, Eske, Malaspinas, A., Sikora, Martin & Lambert, D. M., 1 Dec 2018, In: Science Advances. 4, 12, 13 p., eaau5064.

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  8. Published

    The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia

    McColl, H., Racimo, F., Vinner, L., Demeter, F. P. M., Gakuhari, T., Moreno Mayar, J. V., van Driem, G., Gram Wilken, U., Seguin-Orlando, A., de la Fuente Castro, C. P., Wasef, S., Shoocongdej, R., Souksavatdy, V., Sayavongkhamdy, T., Saidin, M. M., Allentoft, M. E., Sato, T., Malaspinas, A-S., Aghakhanian, F. A., Korneliussen, T. S. & 46 others, Prohaska, Ana, Margaryan, Ashot, Damgaard, P. D. B., Kaewsutthi, S., Lertrit, P., Nguyen, T. M. H., Hung, H., Minh Tran, T., Nghia Truong, H., Nguyen, G. H., Shahidan, S., Wiradnyana, K., Matsumae, H., Shigehara, N., Yoneda, M., Ishida, H., Masuyama, T., Yamada, Y., Tajima, A., Shibata, H., Toyoda, A., Hanihara, T., Nakagome, S., Deviese, T., Bacon, A., Duringer, P., Ponche, J., Shackelford, L., Patole-Edoumba, E., Nguyen, A. T., Bellina-Pryce, B., Galipaud, J., Kinaston, R., Buckley, H., Pottier, C., Rasmussen, Simon, Higham, T., Foley, R. A., Lahr, M. M., Orlando, L., Sikora, Martin, Phipps, M. E., Oota, H., Higham, C., Lambert, D. M. & Willerslev, Eske, 6 Jul 2018, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 361, 6397, p. 88-92 5 p.

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  9. Published

    Discussion: Are the Origins of Indo-European Languages Explained by the Migration of the Yamnaya Culture to the West?

    Klejn, L. S., Haak, W., Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Reich, D., Kristiansen, K., Sjögren, K., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sikora, Martin & Willerslev, Eske, 1 Feb 2018, In: European Journal of Archaeology. 21, 01, p. 3-17

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  10. Published

    137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

    Damgaard, P. D. B., Marchi, N., Rasmussen, S., Peyrot, M., Renaud, G., Korneliussen, T. S., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Pedersen, M. W., Goldberg, A., Usmanova, E., Baimukhanov, N., Loman, V., Hedeager, L., Pedersen, A. G., Nielsen, K., Afanasievl, G., Akmatov, K., Aldashev, A., Alpaslan, A., Baimbetov, G. & 55 others, Bazaliiskii, V. I., Beisenov, A., Boldbaatar, B., Boldgiv, B., Dorzhu, C., Ellingvag, S., Erdenebaatar, D., Dajani, R., Dmitriev, E., Evdokimov, V., Frei, K. M., Gromov, A., Goryachev, A., Hakonarson, H., Hegay, T., Khachatryan, Z., Khaskhanov, R., Kitov', E., Kolbina, A., Kubatbek, T., Kukushkin, A., Kukushkin, I., Lau, N., Margaryan, Ashot, Merkyte, Inga, Mertz, I. V., Mertz, V. K., Mijiddorj, E., Moiyesev, V., Mukhtarova, G., Nurmukhanbetov, B., Orozbekova, Z., Panyushkina, I., Pieta, K., Smrčka, V., Shevnina, I., Logvin, A., Sjögren, K., Štolcová, T., Tashbaeva, K., Tkachev, A., Tulegenov, T., Voyakin, D., Yepiskoposyan, L., Undrakhbold, S., Varfolomeev, V., Weber, A., Kradin, N., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Orlando, L. A. A., Nielsen, Rasmus, Sikora, Martin, Heyer, E., Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Nature. 557, 7705, p. 369-374 6 p.

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  11. Published

    Ancient Biomolecules and Evolutionary Inference

    Cappellini, Enrico, Prohaska, Ana, Racimo, Fernando, Welker, Frido, Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Damgaard, P. D. B., Gutenbrunner, P., Dunne, J., Hammann, S., Roffet-Salque, M., Ilardo, M., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Wang, Yucheng, Sikora, Martin, Vinner, Lasse, Cox, J., Evershed, R. P. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Annual Review of Biochemistry. 87, 32 p., 36.

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  12. Published

    Ancient hepatitis B viruses from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period

    Mühlemann, B., Jones, T. C., Damgaard, P. D. B., Allentoft, M. E., Shevnina, I., Logvin, A., Usmanova, E., Panyushkina, I. P., Boldgiv, B., Bazartseren, T., Tashbaeva, K., Merz, V., Lau, N., Smrcka, V., Voyakin, D., Kitov, E., Epimakhov, A., Pokutta, D., Vicze, M., Price, T. D. & 14 others, Moiseyev, V., Hansen, Anders Johannes, Orlando, L. A. A., Rasmussen, Simon, Sikora, Martin, Vinner, Lasse, Osterhaus, A. D. M. E., Smith, D. J., Glebe, D., Fouchier, R. A. M., Drosten, C., Sjögren, K., Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Nature. 557, 7705, p. 418-423 6 p.

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  13. Published

    Ancient human parvovirus B19 in Eurasia reveals its long-term association with humans

    Mühlemann, B., Margaryan, A., Damgaard, P. D. B., Allentoft, M. E., Vinner, L., Hansen, A. J., Weber, A., Bazaliiskii, V. I., Molak, M., Arneborg, J., Bogdanowicz, W., Falys, C., Sablin, M., Smrcka, V., Sten, S., Tashbaeva, K., Lynnerup, N., Sikora, M., Smith, D. J., Fouchier, R. A. M. & 5 others, Drosten, C., Sjögren, K., Kristiansen, K., Willerslev, Eske & Jones, T. C., 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 29, p. 7557-7562 6 p.

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  14. Published

    Ancient pathogen DNA in human teeth and petrous bones

    Margaryan, Ashot, Hansen, H., Rasmussen, Simon, Sikora, Martin, Moiseyev, V., Khoklov, A., Epimakhov, A., Yepiskoposyan, L., Kriiska, A., Varul, L., Saag, L., Lynnerup, Niels, Willerslev, Eske & Allentoft, Morten Erik, 2018, In: Ecology and Evolution. 8, 6, p. 3534-3542 9 p.

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  15. Published

    Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino

    Schroeder, H., Sikora, M., Gopalakrishnan, S., Cassidy, L. M., Delserc, P. M., Velasco, M. S., Schraiber, J. G., Rasmussen, S., Homburger, J. R., Avila-Arcos, M. C., Allentoft, M. E., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Renaud, G., Gomez-Carballa, A., Laffoon, J. E., Hopkins, R. J. A., Higham, T. F. G., Carr, R. S., Schaffer, W. C., Day, J. S. & 7 others, Hoogland, M., Salas, A., Bustamante, C. D., Nielsen, R., Bradley, D. G., Hofman, C. L. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 10, p. 2341-2346 6 p.

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  16. Published

    Physiological and Genetic Adaptations to Diving in Sea Nomads

    Ilardo, M. A., Moltke, Ida, Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Cheng, J., Stern, A. J., Racimo, Fernando, Damgaard, P. D. B., Sikora, Martin, Seguin-Orlando, A., Rasmussen, Simon, van den Munckhof, I. C. L., ter Horst, R., Joosten, L. A. B., Netea, M. G., Salingkat, S., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Cell. 173, 3, p. 569-580 12 p., e15.

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  17. Published

    Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans

    Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Potter, B. A., Vinner, Lasse, Steinrucken, M., Rasmussen, Simon, Terhorst, J., Kamm, J. A., Albrechtsen, Anders, Malaspinas, A., Sikora, Martin, Reuther, J. D., Irish, J. D., Malhi, R. S., Orlando, L. A. A., Song, Y. S., Nielsen, Rasmus, Meltzer, D. J. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Nature Genetics. 553, 7687, p. 203-207 5 p.

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  18. Published

    The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

    Damgaard, P. D. B., Martiniano, R., Kamm, J., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Kroonen, G., Peyrot, M., Barjamovic, G., Rasmussen, S., Zacho, C. G., Baimukhanov, N., Zaibert, V., Merz, V., Biddanda, A., Merz, I., Loman, V., Evdokimov, V., Usmanova, E., Hemphill, B., Seguin-Orlando, A., Yediay, F. E. & 31 others, Ullah, I., Sjögren, K., Iversen, K. H., Choin, J., jxb425, jxb425, Ilardo, M., Schroeder, Hannes, Moiseyev, V., Gromov, A., Polyakov, A., Omura, S., Senyurt, S. Y., Orlando, L. A. A., Ahmad, H., McKenzie, C., Margaryan, Ashot, Hameed, A., Samad, A., Gul, N., Khokhar, M. H., Goriunova, O. I., Bazaliiskii, V. I., Novembre, J., Weber, A. W., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Nielsen, R., Kristiansen, K., Sikora, Martin, Outram, A. K., Durbin, R. & Willerslev, Eske, 2018, In: Science. 360, 6396, 11 p., 1422.

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  19. 2017
  20. Published

    Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers

    Sikora, M., Seguin-Orlando, A., Sousa, V. C., Albrechtsen, A., Korneliussen, T. S., Ko, A., Rasmussen, S., Dupanloup, I., Nigst, P. R., Bosch, M. D., Renaud, G., Allentoft, M. E., Margaryan, A., Vasilyev, S. V., Veselovskaya, E. V., Borutskaya, S. B., Deviese, T., Comeskey, D., Higham, T., Manica, A. & 7 others, Foley, R., Meltzer, D. J., Nielsen, Rasmus, Excoffler, L., Lahr, M. M., Orlando, L. A. A. & Willerslev, Eske, 3 Nov 2017, In: Science. 358, 6363, p. 659-662 4 p.

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  21. Published

    Genome-wide ancestry and demographic history of African-descendant Maroon communities from French Guiana and Suriname

    Fortes-Lima, C., Gessain, A., Ruiz-Linares, A., Bortolini, M., Migot-Nabias, F., Bellis, G., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Restrepo, B. N., Rojas, W., Avendaño-Tamayo, E., Bedoya, G., Orlando, L. A. A., Salas, A., Helgason, A., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Sikora, Martin, Schroeder, Hannes & Dugoujon, J., 2 Nov 2017, In: American Journal of Human Genetics. 101, 5, p. 725-736 12 p.

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  22. Published

    High Y-chromosomal differentiation among ethnic groups of Dir and Swat districts, Pakistan

    Ullah, I., Olofsson, Jill Katharina, Margaryan, Ashot, Ilardo, M., Ahmad, H., Sikora, Martin, Hansen, Anders Johannes, Shahid Nadeem, M., Fazal, N., Ali, M., Buchard, Anders, Hemphill, B. E., Willerslev, Eske & Allentoft, Morten Erik, Nov 2017, In: Annals of Human Genetics. 81, 6, p. 234–248

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  23. Published

    Selection in Europeans on fatty acid desaturases associated with dietary changes

    Buckley, M. T., Racimo, Fernando, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Jensen, M. K., Jonsson, Anna Elisabet, Huang, H., Hormozdiari, F., Sikora, Martin, Marnetto, D., Eskin, E., Jørgensen, M. E., Grarup, Niels, Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Hansen, Torben, Kraft, P., Willerslev, Eske & Nielsen, Rasmus, Jun 2017, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34, 6, p. 1307-1318 12 p.

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  24. Published

    Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe: [incl. Corrigendum]

    Kristiansen, K., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Frei, K. M., Iversen, Rune, Johannsen, N. N., Kroonen, Guus, Pospieszny, L., Price, T. D., Rasmussen, Simon, Sjögren, K., Sikora, Martin & Willerslev, Eske, Apr 2017, In: Antiquity. 91, 356, p. 334-347

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  25. Published

    A Genomic View of the Pleistocene Population History of Asia

    Sikora, Martin, 2017, In: Current Anthropology. 58, p. S397-S405

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  26. 2016
  27. Published

    A genomic history of aboriginal Australia

    Malaspinas, A. S., Westaway, M. C., Muller, C. E., Sousa, V. C., Lao, O., Alves, I., Bergström, A., Athanasiadis, G., Cheng, J. Y., Crawford, J. E., Heupink, T. H., Macholdt, E., Peischl, S., Rasmussen, S., Schiffels, S., Subramanian, S., Wright, J. L., Albrechtsen, A., Barbieri, C., Dupanloup, I. & 55 others, Eriksson, A., Margaryan, Ashot, Moltke, Ida, Pugach, I., Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Levkivskyi, I. P., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Ni, S., Racimo, F., Sikora, Martin, Xue, Y., Aghakhanian, F. A., Brucato, N., Brunak, Søren, Campos, P., Clark, W., Ellingvåg, S., Fourmile, G., Gerbault, P., Injie, D., Koki, G., Leavesley, M., Logan, B., Lynch, A., Matisoo-Smith, E. A., McAllister, P. J., Mentzer, A. J., Metspalu, M., Migliano, A. B., Murgha, L., Phipps, M. E., Pomat, W., Reynolds, D., Ricaut, F., Siba, P., Thomas, M. G., Wales, T., Wall, C. M., Oppenheimer, S. J., Tyler-Smith, C., Durbin, R., Dortch, J., Manica, A., Schierup, M. H., Foley, R. A., Lahr, M. M., Bowern, C., Wall, J. D., Mailund, T., Stoneking, M., Nielsen, Rasmus, Sandhu, M. S., Excoffier, L., Lambert, D. M. & Willerslev, Eske, 2016, In: Nature. 538, 7624, p. 207-214 8 p.

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  28. 2015
  29. Published

    Early divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 years ago

    Rasmussen, S., Allentoft, M. E., Nielsen, K., Orlando, L. A. A., Sikora, M., Sjögren, K-G., Pedersen, A. G., Schubert, M., Van Dam, A., Kapel, C. M. O., Nielsen, H. B., Brunak, S., Avetisyan, P., Epimakhov, A., Khalyapin, M. V., Gnuni, A., Kriiska, A., Lasak, I., Metspalu, M., Moiseyev, V. & 11 others, Gromov, A., Pokutta, D., Saag, L., Varul, L., Yepiskoposyan, L., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Foley, R. A., Lahr, M. M., Nielsen, R., Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Cell. 163, 3, p. 571-582 12 p.

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  30. Published

    Genome-wide ancestry of 17th-century enslaved Africans from the Caribbean

    Schroeder, Hannes, Avila Arcos, M. D. C., Malaspinas, A. S., Poznik, G. D., Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela, Carpenter, M. L., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Sikora, Martin, Johnson, P. L. F., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Samaniego Castruita, J. A., Haviser, J. B., Dee, M. W., Stafford, T. W., Salas, A., Orlando, L. A. A., Willerslev, Eske, Bustamente, C. D. & Gilbert, M Thomas P, 2015, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS). 112, 12, p. 3669–3673 5 p.

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