Human evolutionary geneticist @ Tartu university. Interested in admixture and demographic history of populations. Always fighting against python, R and BASH.
Tartu, Eesti
Joined April 2014
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Previous work suggested that the role of genes in educational attainment was higher in contemporary Estonia than during the Soviet era. With a tenfold larger dataset, our new preprint finds limited evidence to support this.
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Remember the famous UKB migration paper? We found that internal migration also shapes population structure in Estonia. Key patterns replicate within families.
Paper link in the last tweet.
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New pre-print out! 🎉 With Mathilde + team we traced spatio-temporal shifts in genetically regulated #transcription across 10,000 years of Western Eurasia, fine-mapping regulatory features targeted by #selection! 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.21.6… ! #popgen #genomics
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Matteo Ferro, a doctoral candidate in my team has a new blog on health data science where he is collecting the most interesting papers, each month.
Check it out!
healthdatascience.substack.c…
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New paper on Punic people ancient DNA led by @HaraldRingbauer
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:
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Our new Nature Genetics paper on human segmental duplications (SDs) provides a pangenome perspective of SDs, new potential protein-coding genes, and greater complexity in human variation with implications for disease and evolution. rdcu.be/d5AD9
ALT Pangenome representation of human SDs
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Finding relevant papers for literature review takes a lot of time.
So, MIT researchers built Undermind, an AI-powered search engine.
It can generate well-researched overviews on any topic and is 10-50 times better than Google Scholar.
Here's how to use it:
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Another chapter on generating in silico artificial genomes led by Antoine Szatkownik with @florajay_ , @emiliahsc and many others I couldn’t locate here. This time using diffusion models and with a utility perspective:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Excited to share our review article on Denisovans, now out in @NatureGenet🥳I am very grateful to @emiliahsc for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬
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🚨Our latest preprint on ancient Italy is out with a new Republican sample!🚨
Is the Roman Empire ancestry shift towards the Near East really an Imperial thing?
⏲️We show that it probably began from the Republican period 200 years before the Empire.
1/n
tinyurl.com/yk4vresz
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🧬 A new study co-authored by our @davidebolo93 @Raveancic & @nicolesoranzo reveals that human amylase genes, crucial for starch digestion, underwent multiple duplication and deletion events throughout evolution.
📰 Published in @nature
humantechnopole.it/en/news/t…
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Do you want to study ancient DNA? 🧬 have a look at 👇🏻
#JobAlert
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We're hiring 5 postdoctoral researchers for the ERC Synergy Last Neanderthals. Deadline: August 27th. Positions available in Ancient DNA, Biocultural Modeling, Excavation & Documentation, Histomorphometric & Isotopic Analysis, and Zooarchaeology
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Finally our ancient DNA study on Merovingian Flanders is out @PNASNews!
Discover our surprising capture of a fusion of 2 genetic ancestries on coastal Koksijde (Belgium) in 675-750 AD #EarlyMiddelAges
Our paper 👉 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
🧵1/9 @KU_Leuven @CHG_CME
(Photo: @vioe)
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“A molecular and cellular perspective on human brain evolution and tempo”; A must-read @Nature Perspective by @feline_lindhout @fennamk K. Pollard and @mad_lancaster
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nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Happy to see that our paper on archaic admixture and its phenotypic impact in Papua New Guinean populations is out now in @PNASNews! Thanks to all co-authors for this fun collaboration @genomicstartu pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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Excited to co-organise this with @idamoltke @MaanasaRaghavan and Johannes Krause.
Abstract deadline on Tuesday!
🧬💀 Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo is returning to #EESHuman as keynote speaker and we're so excited about the meeting! Here's a short clip from his last visit to EMBL in 2019 📽️
Submit abstract now and join us to discuss latest updates in the field 🙌🏻
➡️ s.embl.org/ees24-09/