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Enrico Macholdt

former PhD candidate in Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary …
Verified email at eva.mpg.de
Cited by 933

A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

…, JY Cheng, JE Crawford, TH Heupink, E Macholdt… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we
generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama–Nyungan …

[PDF][PDF] Tracing pastoralist migrations to southern Africa with lactase persistence alleles

E Macholdt, V Lede, C Barbieri, SW Mpoloka, H Chen… - Current Biology, 2014 - cell.com
Although southern African Khoisan populations are often assumed to have remained largely
isolated during prehistory, there is growing evidence for a migration of pastoralists from …

[HTML][HTML] New insights from Thailand into the maternal genetic history of Mainland Southeast Asia

…, S Ruangchai, R Schröder, E Macholdt… - European Journal of …, 2018 - nature.com
Tai-Kadai (TK) is one of the major language families in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA),
with a concentration in the area of Thailand and Laos. Our previous study of 1234 mtDNA …

Contrasting paternal and maternal genetic histories of Thai and Lao populations

…, S Ghirotto, L Arias, E Macholdt… - Molecular Biology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The human demographic history of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) has not been well
studied; in particular, there have been very few sequence-based studies of variation in the male-…

[HTML][HTML] Complete human mtDNA genome sequences from Vietnam and the phylogeography of Mainland Southeast Asia

NT Duong, E Macholdt, ND Ton, L Arias, R Schröder… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Vietnam is an important crossroads within Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) and a gateway
to Island Southeast Asia, and as such exhibits high levels of ethnolinguistic diversity. …

[HTML][HTML] Refining the Y chromosome phylogeny with southern African sequences

C Barbieri, A Hübner, E Macholdt, S Ni, S Lippold… - Human genetics, 2016 - Springer
The recent availability of large-scale sequence data for the human Y chromosome has
revolutionized analyses of and insights gained from this non-recombining, paternally inherited …

[HTML][HTML] The paternal and maternal genetic history of Vietnamese populations

E Macholdt, L Arias, NT Duong, ND Ton… - European Journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
Vietnam exhibits great cultural and linguistic diversity, yet the genetic history of Vietnamese
populations remains poorly understood. Previous studies focused mostly on the majority …

[HTML][HTML] Contrasting maternal and paternal genetic variation of hunter-gatherer groups in Thailand

…, P Changmai, P Flegontov, R Schröder, E Macholdt… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The Maniq and Mlabri are the only recorded nomadic hunter-gatherer groups in Thailand.
Here, we sequenced complete mitochondrial (mt) DNA genomes and ~2.364 Mbp of non-…

New insights into the history of the C‐14010 lactase persistence variant in E astern and S outhern A frica

E Macholdt, M Slatkin, B Pakendorf… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Lactase persistence (LP), the ability to digest lactose into adulthood, is strongly associated
with the cultural traits of pastoralism and milk‐drinking among human populations, and …

[HTML][HTML] Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in south and southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans

M Metspalu, T Kivisild, E Metspalu, J Parik… - BMC genetics, 2004 - Springer
Background Recent advances in the understanding of the maternal and paternal heritage of
south and southwest Asian populations have highlighted their role in the colonization of …