Genetic studies of Neolithic and Bronze Age skeletons from Europe have provided evidence for strong population genetic changes at the beginning and th…
The Merovingian period (5th to 8th cc AD) was a time of demographic, socioeconomic, cultural, and political realignment in Western Europe. Here, we re…
Infectious diseases are among the strongest selective pressures driving human evolution1,2. This includes the single greatest mortality event in recor…
During the medieval period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans migrated to the Near East to take part in the Crusades, and many of them settled in the…
Enigmatic phenomena have sparked the imagination of people around the globe intocreating folkloric creatures. One prime example is Zana of Abkhazia (S…
The peopling of Europe by anatomically modern humans occurred over 45 kya. While there is a broad understanding of the genetic diversity of ancient hu…
The precise genetic origins of the first Neolithic farming populations in Europe and Southwest Asia, as well as the processes and the timing of their …
In this study, whole genome sequencing and whole exome sequencing were performed to detected the genomic features of the pancreatic adenosquamous carc…
More than half of all cancer patients receive radiation therapy, but resistance is commonly observed. Currently, it is unknown if resistance to radiat…
Respiratory samples collected at the Academisch Medisch Centrum from cystic fibrosis patients were analysed by next generation sequencing (16S amplico…