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Christiana Lyn Scheib

University of Cambridge
Verified email at cam.ac.uk
Cited by 2114

Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

…, MAW Sayres, S Kaewert, C Inchley, CL Scheib… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
High-coverage whole-genome sequence studies have so far focused on a limited number 1
of geographically restricted populations 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , or been targeted at specific diseases, …

[HTML][HTML] Palaeogenomics of upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers

…, M Lari, A Modi, S Vai, T Saupe, CL Scheib… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years 1 , 2 . Our knowledge of
the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing …

Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541–750)

M Keller, MA Spyrou, CL Scheib… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The first historically documented pandemic caused by Yersinia pestis began as the Justinianic
Plague in 541 within the Roman Empire and continued as the so-called First Pandemic …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogeography of the second plague pandemic revealed through analysis of historical Yersinia pestis genomes

MA Spyrou, M Keller, RI Tukhbatova, CL Scheib… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The second plague pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis, devastated Europe and the nearby
regions between the 14 th and 18 th centuries AD. Here we analyse human remains from …

[PDF][PDF] Extensive farming in Estonia started through a sex-biased migration from the Steppe

L Saag, L Varul, CL Scheib, J Stenderup, ME Allentoft… - Current biology, 2017 - cell.com
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming in Europe was brought upon by arrival
of new people carrying novel material culture and genetic ancestry. The exact nature and …

Ancient human parallel lineages within North America contributed to a coastal expansion

CL Scheib, H Li, T Desai, V Link, C Kendall, G Dewar… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Little is known regarding the first people to enter the Americas and their genetic legacy.
Genomic analysis of the oldest human remains from the Americas showed a direct relationship …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating genotype imputation pipeline for ultra-low coverage ancient genomes

R Hui, E D'Atanasio, LM Cassidy, CL Scheib… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Although ancient DNA data have become increasingly more important in studies about past
populations, it is often not feasible or practical to obtain high coverage genomes from poorly …

[HTML][HTML] The arrival of Siberian ancestry connecting the Eastern Baltic to Uralic speakers further East

…, ER Mikhaylova, A Kushniarevich, CL Scheib… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
In this study, we compare the genetic ancestry of individuals from two as yet genetically
unstudied cultural traditions in Estonia in the context of available modern and ancient datasets: …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula

…, S Benazzi, C Capelli, L Pagani, CL Scheib - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Across Europe, the genetics of the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age transition is increasingly
characterized in terms of an influx of Steppe-related ancestry. The effect of this major shift on the …

[PDF][PDF] Shifts in the genetic landscape of the western Eurasian steppe associated with the beginning and end of the Scythian dominance

M Järve, L Saag, CL Scheib, AK Pathak, F Montinaro… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
The Early Iron Age nomadic Scythians have been described as a confederation of tribes of
different origins, based on ancient DNA evidence [1–3]. It is still unclear how much of the …