Simon Rasmussen

Simon Rasmussen

Associate professor, group leader, Professor


  1. 2022
  2. Published

    The population genomic legacy of the second plague pandemic

    Gopalakrishnan, S., Ebenesersdóttir, S. S., Lundstrøm, I. K. C., Turner-Walker, G., Moore, K. H. S., Luisi, P., Margaryan, A., Martin, M. D., Ellegaard, M. R., Magnússon, Ó., Sigurðsson, Á., Snorradóttir, S., Magnúsdóttir, D. N., Laffoon, J. E., van Dorp, L., Liu, X., Moltke, I., Ávila-Arcos, M. C., Schraiber, J. G., Rasmussen, S. & 40 others, Juan, D., Gelabert, P., de-Dios, T., Fotaki, Anna Katerina, Iraeta Orbegozo, Miren, Vågene, Åshild Joanne, Denham, S. D., Christophersen, A., Stenøien, H. K., Vieira, Filipe Garrett, Liu, Shanlin, Günther, T., Kivisild, T., Moseng, O. G., Skar, B., Cheung, C., Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela, Wales, N., Schroeder, Hannes, Campos, P. F., Guðmundsdóttir, V. B., Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas, Petersen, Bent, Halgunset, J., Gilbert, E., Cavalleri, G. L., Hovig, E., Kockum, I., Olsson, T., Alfredsson, L., Hansen, Thomas Folkmann, Werge, Thomas, Willerslev, Eske, Balloux, F., Marques-Bonet, T., Lalueza-Fox, C., Nielsen, Rasmus, Stefánsson, K., Helgason, A. & Gilbert, M Thomas P, 2022, In: Current Biology. 32, 21, p. 4743-4751.e6

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  3. Published

    Whole-Exome Sequencing Implicates Neuronal Calcium Channel with Familial Atrial Fibrillation

    Vad, Oliver Tim Bundgaard, Yan, Y., Denti, F., Ahlberg, Gustav, Refsgaard, L., Bomholtz, Sofia Hammami, Santos, J. L., Rasmussen, Simon, Haunsø, Stig, Svendsen, Jesper Hastrup, Christophersen, I. E., Schmitt, Nicole, Olesen, Morten Steen Salling & Bentzen, Bo Hjorth, 2022, In: Frontiers in Genetics. 13, 8 p., 806429.

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  4. 2021
  5. Published

    Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae: Use of whole-genome sequences to validate species identification methods

    Jensen, C. S., Iversen, K. H., Dargis, R., Shewmaker, P., Rasmussen, Simon, Christensen, J. J. & Nielsen, X. C., 2021, In: Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 59, 2, 11 p., e02503-20.

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  6. Published

    A large-scale investigation into the role of classical HLA loci in multiple types of severe infections, with a focus on overlaps with autoimmune and mental disorders

    Nudel, R., Allesøe, R. L., Thompson, W. K., Werge, Thomas, Rasmussen, Simon & Benros, Michael Eriksen, 2021, In: Journal of Translational Medicine. 19, 230.

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  7. Published

    Defining NASH from a multi-omics systems biology perspective

    Niu, Lili, Sulek, K., Vasilopoulou, C. G., Santos, A., Albrechtsen, Nicolai Jacob Wewer, Rasmussen, Simon, Meier, F. & Mann, Matthias, 2021, In: Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10, 20, 22 p., 4673.

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  8. Published

    Extension of Plant Phenotypes by the Foliar Microbiome

    Hawkes, C. V., Kjøller, Rasmus, Raaijmakers, J. M., Riber, Leise, Christensen, Svend, Rasmussen, Simon, Christensen, Jan H., Dahl, A. B., Westergaard, Jesper Cairo, Nielsen, Mads, Brown-Guedira, G. & Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg, 2021, In: Annual Review of Plant Biology. 72, p. 823-846 24 p.

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  9. Published

    Genetic factors underlying the bidirectional relationship between autoimmune and mental disorders - findings from a Danish population-based study: [Incl. Corrigendum]

    Liu, X., Nudel, R., Thompson, W. K., Appadurai, V., Schork, A. J., Buil, A., Rasmussen, Simon, Allesøe, R. L., Werge, Thomas, Mors, O., Børglum, A. D., Hougaard, D. M., Mortensen, P. B., Nordentoft, Merete & Benros, Michael Eriksen, 2021, In: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 91, p. 10-23 14 p.

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  10. Published

    Gut microbial changes of patients with psychotic and affective disorders: A systematic review

    Vindegaard, N., Speyer, H., Nordentoft, Merete, Rasmussen, Simon & Benros, Michael Eriksen, 2021, In: Schizophrenia Research. 234, p. 41-50 10 p.

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  11. Published

    Improved metagenome binning and assembly using deep variational autoencoders

    Nissen, J. N., Johansen, Joachim, Allesoe, R. L., Sonderby, C. K., Armenteros, J. J. A., Grønbech, Christopher Heje, Jensen, Lars Juhl, Nielsen, H. B., Petersen, T. N., Winther, Ole & Rasmussen, Simon, 2021, In: Nature Biotechnology. 39, p. 555-560

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  12. Published

    The ubiquitin ligase RFWD3 is required for translesion DNA synthesis

    Gallina, I., Hendriks, Ivo Alexander, Hoffmann, Saskia, Larsen, N. B., Johansen, Joachim, S.Colding-Christensen, Camilla, Schubert, Lisa, Sellés Baiget, Selene, Fábián, Z., Kühbacher, U., Gao, A. O., Räschle, M., Rasmussen, Simon, Nielsen, Michael Lund, Mailand, Niels & Duxin, Julien, 2021, In: Molecular Cell. 81, 3, p. 442-458.e9 27 p.

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  13. 2020
  14. Published

    Similar genomic patterns of clinical infective endocarditis and oral isolates of Streptococcus sanguinis and Streptococcus gordonii

    Iversen, K. H., Rasmussen, L. H., Al-Nakeeb, K., Armenteros, J. J. A., Jensen, C. S., Dargis, R., Lukjancenko, O., Justesen, U. S., Moser, C., Rosenvinge, F. S., Nielsen, X. C., Christensen, J. J. & Rasmussen, Simon, 17 Feb 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 1, 11 p., 2728.

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  15. Published

    A draft genome sequence of the elusive giant squid, Architeuthis dux

    da Fonseca, R. R., Couto, A., Machado, A. M., Brejova, B., Albertin, C. B., Silva, F., Gardner, P., Baril, T., Hayward, A., Campos, A., Ribeiro, Â. M., Barrio-Hernandez, I., Hoving, H-J., Tafur-Jimenez, R., Chu, C., Frazão, B., Petersen, B., Peñaloza, F., Musacchia, F., Alexander, G. C. & 24 others, Osório, H., Winkelmann, I., Simakov, O., Rasmussen, Simon, Rahman, M. Z., Pisani, D., Vinther, J., Jarvis, E., KU, thw266, Strugnell, J. M., Castro, L. F. C., Fedrigo, O., Patricio, M., Li, Q., Rocha, S., Antunes, A., Wu, Y., Ma, B., Sanges, R., Vinar, T., Blagoev, B., Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas, Nielsen, Rasmus & Gilbert, M Thomas P, 2020, In: GigaScience. 9, 1, 12 p., giz152.

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  16. Published

    Paleogenomic insights into the red complex bacteria Tannerella forsythia in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial individuals from Mexico

    Bravo-Lopez, M., Villa-Islas, V., Rocha Arriaga, C., Villasenor-Altamirano, A. B., Guzman-Solis, A., Sandoval-Velasco, M., Wesp, J. K., Alcantara, K., Lopez-Corral, A., Gomez-Valdes, J., Mejia, E., Herrera, A., Meraz-Moreno, A., Moreno-Cabrera, M. D. L. L., Moreno-Estrada, A., Nieves-Colon, M. A., Olvera, J., Perez-Perez, J., Iversen, K. H., Rasmussen, S. & 3 others, Sandoval, K., Zepeda, G. & Avila-Arcos, M. C., 2020, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 375, 1812, 13 p., 20190580.

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  17. Published

    Population genomics of the Viking world: [incl. correction]

    Margaryan, A., Lawson, D. J., Sikora, M., Racimo, F., Rasmussen, S., Moltke, I., Cassidy, L. M., Jørsboe, E., Ingason, A., Pedersen, M. W., Korneliussen, T., Wilhelmson, H., Buś, M. M., de Barros Damgaard, P., Martiniano, R., Renaud, G., Bhérer, C., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Fotakis, A. K., Allen, M. & 30 others, Allmäe, R., Molak, M., Cappellini, Enrico, Scorrano, Gabriele, McColl, Hugh, Buzhilova, A., Fox, A., Albrechtsen, Anders, Schütz, B., Skar, B., Arcini, C., Lundstrøm, I., Cheng, J., Stenderup, Jesper Tandberg, Iversen, K. H., Arge, S. V., Ellingvåg, S., Orlando, L., Pentz, P., Jessen, M. D., Pedersen, A., Jørkov, M L S, Lynnerup, Niels, Gilbert, M Thomas P, Allentoft, Morten Erik, Sindbæk, S. M., Kristiansen, K., Nielsen, Rasmus, Werge, Thomas & Willerslev, Eske, 2020, In: Nature. 585, 7825, p. 390-396 7 p.

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  18. 2019
  19. Published

    A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch

    Jensen, T. Z. T., Niemann, J., Iversen, K. H., Fotakis, A. K., Gopalakrishnan, S., Vågene, Å. J., Pedersen, M. W., Sinding, M-H. S., Ellegaard, M. R., Allentoft, M. E., Lanigan, L. T., Taurozzi, A. J., Nielsen, S. H., Dee, M. W., Mortensen, M. N., Christensen, M. C., Sørensen, S. A., Collins, M. J., Gilbert, M. T. P., Sikora, M. & 2 others, Rasmussen, Simon & Schroeder, Hannes, 2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 10 p., 5520.

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  20. Published

    Emergence and Spread of Basal Lineages of Yersinia pestis during the Neolithic Decline

    Rascovan, N., Sjogren, K., Kristiansen, K., Nielsen, Rasmus, Willerslev, Eske, Desnues, C. & Rasmussen, Simon, 2019, In: Cell. 176, 1-2, p. 295-305.e10

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  21. Published

    Genetic studies of abdominal MRI data identify genes regulating hepcidin as major determinants of liver iron concentration

    Wilman, H. R., Parisinos, C. A., Atabaki-Pasdar, N., Kelly, M., Thomas, E. L., Neubauer, S., Jennison, C., Ehrhardt, B., Baum, P., Schoelsch, C., Freijer, J., Grempler, R., Graefe-Mody, U., Hennige, A., Dings, C., Lehr, T., Scherer, N., Sihinecich, I., Pattou, F., Raverdi, V. & 31 others, Caiazzo, R., Torres, F., Verkindt, H., Mari, A., Tura, A., Giorgino, T., Bizzotto, Froguel, P., Brorsson, C., Brunak, Søren, De Masi, F., Pedersen, H., Banasik, Karina, Thomas, Cecilia Engel, Lundgaard, Agnete Troen, Nielsen, A., Mazzoni, G., Karaderi, Tugce, Rasmussen, Simon, Johansen, Joachim, Allesøe, R., Arumugam, Mani, Allin, K., Hansen, Torben, Hansen, T., Jonsson, Anna Elisabet, Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Dutta, A., Vogt, J., drb459, drb459 & IMI-DIRECT consortium, I. C., 2019, In: Journal of Hepatology. 71, 3, p. 594-602 9 p.

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  22. Global monitoring of antimicrobial resistance based on metagenomics analyses of urban sewage

    Hendriksen, R. S., Munk, P., Njage, P., van Bunnik, B., McNally, L., Lukjancenko, O., Röder, T., Nieuwenhuijse, D., Pedersen, S. K., Kjeldgaard, J., Kaas, R. S., Clausen, P. T. L. C., Vogt, J. K., Leekitcharoenphon, P., van de Schans, M. G. M., Zuidema, T., de Roda Husman, A. M., Rasmussen, S., Petersen, B., Bego, A. & 108 others, Rees, C., Cassar, S., Coventry, K., Collignon, P., Allerberger, F., Rahube, T. O., Oliveira, G., Ivanov, I., Vuthy, Y., Sopheak, T., Yost, C. K., Ke, C., Zheng, H., Baisheng, L., Jiao, X., Donado-Godoy, P., Coulibaly, K. J., Jergović, M., Hrenovic, J., Karpíšková, R., Villacis, J. E., Legesse, M., Eguale, T., Heikinheimo, A., Malania, L., Nitsche, A., Brinkmann, A., Saba, C. K. S., Kocsis, B., Solymosi, N., Thorsteinsdottir, T. R., Hatha, A. M., Alebouyeh, M., Morris, D., Cormican, M., O’Connor, L., Moran-Gilad, J., Alba, P., Battisti, A., Shakenova, Z., Kiiyukia, C., Ng’eno, E., Raka, L., Avsejenko, J., Bērziņš, A., Bartkevics, V., Penny, C., Rajandas, H., Parimannan, S., Haber, M. V., Pal, P., Jeunen, G. J., Gemmell, N., Fashae, K., Holmstad, R., Hasan, R., Shakoor, S., Rojas, M. L. Z., Wasyl, D., Bosevska, G., Kochubovski, M., Radu, C., Gassama, A., Radosavljevic, V., Wuertz, S., Zuniga-Montanez, R., Tay, M. Y. F., Gavačová, D., Pastuchova, K., Truska, P., Trkov, M., Esterhuyse, K., Keddy, K., Cerdà-Cuéllar, M., Pathirage, S., Norrgren, L., Örn, S., Larsson, D. G. J., Heijden, T. V. D., Kumburu, H. H., Sanneh, B., Bidjada, P., Njanpop-Lafourcade, B. M., Nikiema-Pessinaba, S. C., Levent, B., Meschke, J. S., Beck, N. K., Van, C. D., Phuc, N. D., Tran, D. M. N., Kwenda, G., Tabo, D. A., Wester, A. L., Cuadros-Orellana, S., Amid, C., Cochrane, G., Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas, Schmitt, H., Alvarez, J. R. M., Aidara-Kane, A., Pamp, S. J., Lund, O., Hald, T., Woolhouse, M., Koopmans, M. P., Vigre, H., Petersen, T. N. & Aarestrup, F. M., 2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 1, 12 p., 1124.

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  23. Published

    Immunity and mental illness: findings from a Danish population-based immunogenetic study of seven psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders

    Nudel, R., Benros, Michael Eriksen, Krebs, M. D., Allesøe, R. L., Lemvigh, C. K., Bybjerg-Grauholm, J., Børglum, A. D., Daly, M. J., Nordentoft, Merete, Mors, O., Hougaard, D. M., Mortensen, P. B., Buil, A., Werge, Thomas, Rasmussen, Simon & Thompson, W. K., 2019, In: European Journal of Human Genetics. 27, p. 1445-1455

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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 2018
  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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