Organizations:

Tartu Students' Nature Protection Circle (1996)
Estonian Society of Human Genetics (2000)
Estonian Green Movement (2003)
Tartu river boat society (2004)
European Society of Human Genetics (2008)
Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) (2008)
American Society for Human Genetics (2011)


Publications:

ISI; PubMed:

Rasmussen S, Allentoft ME, Nielsen K, Orlando L, Sikora M, Sjƶgren KG, Pedersen AG, Schubert M, Van Dam A, Kapel CM, Nielsen HB, Brunak S, Avetisyan P, Epimakhov A, Khalyapin MV, Gnuni A, Kriiska A, Lasak I, Metspalu M, Moiseyev V, Gromov A, Pokutta D, Saag L, Varul L, Yepiskoposyan L, Sicheritz-PontƩn T, Foley RA, Lahr MM, Nielsen R, Kristiansen K, Willerslev E. (2015) Early divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 years ago. Cell. 2015 Oct 22;163(3):571-82. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.009. Epub 2015 Oct 22.


Sudmant PH, Mallick S, Nelson BJ, Hormozdiari F, Krumm N, Huddleston J, Coe BP, Baker C, Nordenfelt S, Bamshad M, Jorde LB, Posukh OL, Sahakyan H, Watkins WS, Yepiskoposyan L, Abdullah MS, Bravi CM, Capelli C, Hervig T, Wee JT, Tyler-Smith C, van Driem G, Romero IG, Jha AR, Karachanak-Yankova S, Toncheva D, Comas D, Henn B, Kivisild T, Ruiz-Linares A, Sajantila A, Metspalu E, Parik J, Villems R, Starikovskaya EB, Ayodo G, Beall CM, Di Rienzo A, Hammer MF, Khusainova R, Khusnutdinova E, Klitz W, Winkler C, Labuda D, Metspalu M, Tishkoff SA, Dryomov S, Sukernik R, Patterson N, Reich D, Eichler EE. (2015) Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation. Science. 2015 Sep 11;349(6253):aab3761. doi: 10.1126/science.aab3761. Epub 2015 Aug 6.


Kushniarevich A, Utevska O, Chuhryaeva M, Agdzhoyan A, Dibirova K, Uktveryte I, Mƶls M, Mulahasanovic L, Pshenichnov A, Frolova S, Shanko A, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Tambets K, Tamm E, Koshel S, Zaporozhchenko V, Atramentova L, Kučinskas V, Davydenko O, Goncharova O, Evseeva I, Churnosov M, Pocheshchova E, Yunusbayev B, Khusnutdinova E, Marjanović D, Rudan P, Rootsi S, Yankovsky N, Endicott P, Kassian A, Dybo A; Genographic Consortium, Tyler-Smith C, Balanovska E, Metspalu M, Kivisild T, Villems R, Balanovsky O. (2015) Genetic Heritage of the Balto-Slavic Speaking Populations: A Synthesis of Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosomal Data. PLoS One. 2015 Sep 2;10(9):e0135820. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135820. eCollection 2015.


Raghavan M, SteinrĆ¼cken M, Harris K, Schiffels S, Rasmussen S, DeGiorgio M, Albrechtsen A, Valdiosera C, Ɓvila-Arcos MC, Malaspinas AS, Eriksson A, Moltke I, Metspalu M, Homburger JR, Wall J, Cornejo OE, Moreno-Mayar JV, Korneliussen TS, Pierre T, Rasmussen M, Campos PF, Damgaard Pde B, Allentoft ME, Lindo J, Metspalu E, RodrĆ­guez-Varela R, Mansilla J, Henrickson C, Seguin-Orlando A, Malmstrƶm H, Stafford T Jr, Shringarpure SS, Moreno-Estrada A, Karmin M, Tambets K, Bergstrƶm A, Xue Y, Warmuth V, Friend AD, Singarayer J, Valdes P, Balloux F, Leboreiro I, Vera JL, Rangel-Villalobos H, Pettener D, Luiselli D, Davis LG, Heyer E, Zollikofer CP, Ponce de LeĆ³n MS, Smith CI, Grimes V, Pike KA, Deal M, Fuller BT, Arriaza B, Standen V, Luz MF, Ricaut F, Guidon N, Osipova L, Voevoda MI, Posukh OL, Balanovsky O, Lavryashina M, Bogunov Y, Khusnutdinova E, Gubina M, Balanovska E, Fedorova S, Litvinov S, Malyarchuk B, Derenko M, Mosher MJ, Archer D, Cybulski J, Petzelt B, Mitchell J, Worl R, Norman PJ, Parham P, Kemp BM, Kivisild T, Tyler-Smith C, Sandhu MS, Crawford M, Villems R, Smith DG, Waters MR, Goebel T, Johnson JR, Malhi RS, Jakobsson M, Meltzer DJ, Manica A, Durbin R, Bustamante CD, Song YS, Nielsen R, Willerslev E. (2015) POPULATION GENETICS. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans. Science. 2015 Aug 21;349(6250):aab3884. doi: 10.1126/science.aab3884. Epub 2015 Jul 21.


Allentoft ME, Sikora M, Sjƶgren KG, Rasmussen S, Rasmussen M, Stenderup J, Damgaard PB, Schroeder H, Ahlstrƶm T, Vinner L, Malaspinas AS, Margaryan A, Higham T, Chivall D, Lynnerup N, Harvig L, Baron J, Della Casa P, Dąbrowski P, Duffy PR, Ebel AV, Epimakhov A, Frei K, Furmanek M, Gralak T, Gromov A, Gronkiewicz S, Grupe G, Hajdu T, Jarysz R, Khartanovich V, Khokhlov A, Kiss V, KolĆ”Å™ J, Kriiska A, Lasak I, Longhi C, McGlynn G, Merkevicius A, Merkyte I, Metspalu M, Mkrtchyan R, Moiseyev V, Paja L, PĆ”lfi G, Pokutta D, Pospieszny Ł, Price TD, Saag L, Sablin M, Shishlina N, Smrčka V, Soenov VI, SzeverĆ©nyi V, TĆ³th G, Trifanova SV, Varul L, Vicze M, Yepiskoposyan L, Zhitenev V, Orlando L, Sicheritz-PontĆ©n T, Brunak S, Nielsen R, Kristiansen K, Willerslev E. (2015) Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia. Nature. 2015 Jun 11;522(7555):167-72. doi: 10.1038/nature14507.


Karmin M, Saag L, Vicente M, Wilson Sayres MA, JƤrve M, Talas UG, Rootsi S, IlumƤe AM, MƤgi R, Mitt M, Pagani L, Puurand T, Faltyskova Z, Clemente F, Cardona A, Metspalu E, Sahakyan H, Yunusbayev B, Hudjashov G, DeGiorgio M, LoogvƤli EL, Eichstaedt C, Eelmets M, Chaubey G, Tambets K, Litvinov S, Mormina M, Xue Y, Ayub Q, Zoraqi G, Korneliussen TS, Akhatova F, Lachance J, Tishkoff S, Momynaliev K, Ricaut FX, Kusuma P, Razafindrazaka H, Pierron D, Cox MP, Sultana GN, Willerslev R, Muller C, Westaway M, Lambert D, Skaro V, Kovačevic L, Turdikulova S, Dalimova D, Khusainova R, Trofimova N, Akhmetova V, Khidiyatova I, Lichman DV, Isakova J, Pocheshkhova E, Sabitov Z, Barashkov NA, Nymadawa P, Mihailov E, Seng JW, Evseeva I, Migliano AB, Abdullah S, Andriadze G, Primorac D, Atramentova L, Utevska O, Yepiskoposyan L, Marjanovic D, Kushniarevich A, Behar DM, Gilissen C, Vissers L, Veltman JA, Balanovska E, Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Metspalu A, Fedorova S, Eriksson A, Manica A, Mendez FL, Karafet TM, Veeramah KR, Bradman N, Hammer MF, Osipova LP, Balanovsky O, Khusnutdinova EK, Johnsen K, Remm M, Thomas MG, Tyler-Smith C, Underhill PA, Willerslev E, Nielsen R, Metspalu M, Villems R, Kivisild T. (2015) A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture. Genome Res. 2015 Apr;25(4):459-66. doi: 10.1101/gr.186684.114. Epub 2015 Mar 13.


Yunusbayev B, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Valeev A, Litvinov S, Valiev R, Akhmetova V, Balanovska E, Balanovsky O, Turdikulova S, Dalimova D, Nymadawa P, Bahmanimehr A, Sahakyan H, Tambets K, Fedorova S, Barashkov N, Khidiyatova I, Mihailov E, Khusainova R, Damba L, Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Osipova L, Voevoda M, Yepiskoposyan L, Kivisild T, Khusnutdinova E, Villems R. (2015) The genetic legacy of the expansion of Turkic-speaking nomads across Eurasia. PLoS Genet. 2015 Apr 21;11(4):e1005068. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005068. eCollection 2015.


Chaubey G, Singh M, Crivellaro F, Tamang R, Nandan A, Singh K, Sharma VK, Pathak AK, Shah AM, Sharma V, Singh VK, Selvi Rani D, Rai N, Kushniarevich A, IlumƤe AM, Karmin M, Phillip A, Verma A, Prank E, Singh VK, Li B, Govindaraj P, Chaubey AK, Dubey PK, Reddy AG, Premkumar K, Vishnupriya S, Pande V, Parik J, Rootsi S, Endicott P, Metspalu M, Lahr MM, van Driem G, Villems R, Kivisild T, Singh L, Thangaraj K. (2014) Unravelling the distinct strains of Tharu ancestry. Eur J Hum Genet. 2014 Dec;22(12):1404-12. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.36. Epub 2014 Mar 26.


Clemente FJ, Cardona A, Inchley CE, Peter BM, Jacobs G, Pagani L, Lawson DJ, AntĆ£o T, Vicente M, Mitt M, DeGiorgio M, Faltyskova Z, Xue Y, Ayub Q, Szpak M, MƤgi R, Eriksson A, Manica A, Raghavan M, Rasmussen M, Rasmussen S, Willerslev E, Vidal-Puig A, Tyler-Smith C, Villems R, Nielsen R, Metspalu M, Malyarchuk B, Derenko M, Kivisild T. (2014) A Selective Sweep on a Deleterious Mutation in CPT1A in Arctic Populations. Am J Hum Genet. 2014 Oct 23;95(5):584-589. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.09.016. [Epub ahead of print]


Lazaridis I, Patterson N, Mittnik A, Renaud G, Mallick S, Kirsanow K, Sudmant PH, Schraiber JG, Castellano S, Lipson M, Berger B, Economou C, Bollongino R, Fu Q, Bos KI, Nordenfelt S, Li H, de Filippo C, PrĆ¼fer K, Sawyer S, Posth C, Haak W, Hallgren F, Fornander E, Rohland N, Delsate D, Francken M, Guinet JM, Wahl J, Ayodo G, Babiker HA, Bailliet G, Balanovska E, Balanovsky O, Barrantes R, Bedoya G, Ben-Ami H, Bene J, Berrada F, Bravi CM, Brisighelli F, Busby GB, Cali F, Churnosov M, Cole DE, Corach D, Damba L, van Driem G, Dryomov S, Dugoujon JM, Fedorova SA, Gallego Romero I, Gubina M, Hammer M, Henn BM, Hervig T, Hodoglugil U, Jha AR, Karachanak-Yankova S, Khusainova R, Khusnutdinova E, Kittles R, Kivisild T, Klitz W, Kučinskas V, Kushniarevich A, Laredj L, Litvinov S, Loukidis T, Mahley RW, Melegh B, Metspalu E, Molina J, Mountain J, NƤkkƤlƤjƤrvi K, Nesheva D, Nyambo T, Osipova L, Parik J, Platonov F, Posukh O, Romano V, Rothhammer F, Rudan I, Ruizbakiev R, Sahakyan H, Sajantila A, Salas A, Starikovskaya EB, Tarekegn A, Toncheva D, Turdikulova S, Uktveryte I, Utevska O, Vasquez R, Villena M, Voevoda M, Winkler CA, Yepiskoposyan L, Zalloua P, Zemunik T, Cooper A, Capelli C, Thomas MG, Ruiz-Linares A, Tishkoff SA, Singh L, Thangaraj K, Villems R, Comas D, Sukernik R, Metspalu M, Meyer M, Eichler EE, Burger J, Slatkin M, PƤƤbo S, Kelso J, Reich D, Krause J. (2014) Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans. Nature. 2014 Sep 18;513(7518):409-13. doi: 10.1038/nature13673.


Raghavan M, DeGiorgio M, Albrechtsen A, Moltke I, Skoglund P, Korneliussen TS, GrĆønnow B, Appelt M, GullĆøv HC, Friesen TM, Fitzhugh W, Malmstrƶm H, Rasmussen S, Olsen J, Melchior L, Fuller BT, Fahrni SM, Stafford T Jr, Grimes V, Renouf MA, Cybulski J, Lynnerup N, Lahr MM, Britton K, Knecht R, Arneborg J, Metspalu M, Cornejo OE, Malaspinas AS, Wang Y, Rasmussen M, Raghavan V, Hansen TV, Khusnutdinova E, Pierre T, Dneprovsky K, Andreasen C, Lange H, Hayes MG, Coltrain J, Spitsyn VA, Gƶtherstrƶm A, Orlando L, Kivisild T, Villems R, Crawford MH, Nielsen FC, Dissing J, Heinemeier J, Meldgaard M, Bustamante C, O'Rourke DH, Jakobsson M, Gilbert MT, Nielsen R, Willerslev E. (2014) The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic. Science. 2014 Aug 29;345(6200):1255832. doi: 10.1126/science.1255832.


Cardona A, Pagani L, Antao T, Lawson DJ, Eichstaedt CA, Yngvadottir B, Shwe MT, Wee J, Romero IG, Raj S, Metspalu M, Villems R, Willerslev E, Tyler-Smith C, Malyarchuk BA, Derenko MV, Kivisild T. (2014) Genome-wide analysis of cold adaptation in indigenous Siberian populations. PLoS One. 2014 May 21;9(5):e98076. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098076. eCollection 2014.


Rasmussen M, Anzick SL, Waters MR, Skoglund P, DeGiorgio M, Stafford TW Jr, Rasmussen S, Moltke I, Albrechtsen A, Doyle SM, Poznik GD, Gudmundsdottir V, Yadav R, Malaspinas AS, White SS 5th, Allentoft ME, Cornejo OE, Tambets K, Eriksson A, Heintzman PD, Karmin M, Korneliussen TS, Meltzer DJ, Pierre TL, Stenderup J, Saag L, Warmuth VM, Lopes MC, Malhi RS, Brunak S, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Barnes I, Collins M, Orlando L, Balloux F, Manica A, Gupta R, Metspalu M, Bustamante CD, Jakobsson M, Nielsen R, Willerslev E. (2014) The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana. Nature. 2014 Feb 13;506(7487):225-9. doi: 10.1038/nature13025.


Rootsi S, Behar DM, JƤrve M, Lin AA, Myres NM, Passarelli B, Poznik GD, Tzur S, Sahakyan H, Pathak AK, Rosset S, Metspalu M, Grugni V, Semino O, Metspalu E, Bustamante CD, Skorecki K, Villems R, Kivisild T, Underhill PA. (2013) Phylogenetic applications of whole Y-chromosome sequences and the Near Eastern origin of Ashkenazi Levites. Nat Commun. 2013;4:2928. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3928.


Behar DM, Metspalu M, Baran Y, Kopelman NM, Yunusbayev B, Gladstein A, Tzur S, Sahakyan H, Bahmanimehr A, Yepiskoposyan L, Tambets K, Khusnutdinova EK, Kushniarevich A, Balanovsky O, Balanovsky E, Kovacevic L, Marjanovic D, Mihailov E, Kouvatsi A, Triantaphyllidis C, King RJ, Semino O, Torroni A, Hammer MF, Metspalu E, Skorecki K, Rosset S, Halperin E, Villems R, Rosenberg NA. (2013) No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Ashkenazi Jews. Hum Biol. 2013 Dec;85(6):859-900.


Migliano AB, Romero I, Metspalu M, Leavesley M, Pagani L, Antao T, Huang DW, Sherman BT, Siddle K, Scholes C, Hudjashov G, Kaitokai E, Babalu A, Belatti M, Cagan A, Hopkinshaw B, Shaw C, Nelis M, Metspalu E, MƤgi R, Lempicki RA, Villems R, Lahr MM, Kivisild T. (2013) Evolution of the pygmy phenotype: evidence of positive selection fro genome-wide scans in African, Asian, and Melanesian pygmies. Hum Biol. 2013 Feb-Jun;85(1-3):251-84.


Raghavan M, Skoglund P, Graf KE, Metspalu M, Albrechtsen A, Moltke I, Rasmussen S, Stafford Jr TW, Orlando L, Metspalu E, Karmin M, Tambets K, Rootsi S, MŠgi R, Campos PF, Balanovska E, Balanovsky O, Khusnutdinova E, Litvinov S, Osipova LP, Fedorova SA, Voevoda MI, Degiorgio M, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Brunak S, Demeshchenko S, Kivisild T, Villems R, Nielsen R, Jakobsson M, Willerslev E. (2013) Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans. Nature. 2013 Nov 20. doi: 10.1038/nature12736.


Basu Mallick C, Iliescu FM, Mšls M, Hill S, Tamang R, Chaubey G, Goto R, Ho SY, Gallego Romero I, Crivellaro F, Hudjashov G, Rai N, Metspalu M, Mascie-Taylor CG, Pitchappan R, Singh L, Mirazon-Lahr M, Thangaraj K, Villems R, Kivisild T. (2013) The Light Skin Allele of SLC24A5 in South Asians and Europeans Shares Identity by Descent. PLoS Genet. 2013 Nov;9(11):e1003912. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003912. Epub 2013 Nov 7.


Di Cristofaro J, Pennarun E, Mazires S, Myres NM, Lin AA, Temori SA, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Witzel M, King RJ, Underhill PA, Villems R, Chiaroni J. (2013) Afghan hindu kush: where eurasian sub-continent gene flows converge. PLoS One. 2013 Oct 18;8(10):e76748. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076748.


Fedorova SA, Reidla M, Metspalu E, Metspalu M, Rootsi S, Tambets K, Trofimova N, Zhadanov SI, Hooshiar Kashani B, Olivieri A, Voevoda MI, Osipova LP, Platonov FA, Tomsky MI, Khusnutdinova EK, Torroni A, Villems R. (2013) Autosomal and uniparental portraits of the native populations of Sakha (Yakutia): implications for the peopling of Northeast Eurasia. BMC Evol Biol. 2013 Jun 19;13(1):127. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-127.


Pennarun, E.; Kivisild, T.; Metspalu, E.; Metspalu, M.; Reisberg, T.; Behar, D.; Jones, S.; Villems, R. (2012) Divorcing the Late Upper Palaeolitic Demographic Histories of mtDNA Haplogroupa M1 and U6 in Africa. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 234


Esko, T; Mezzavilla, M; Nelis, M; Borel, C; Debniak, T; Jakkula, E; Julia, A; Karachanak, S; Khrunin, A; Kisfali, P; Krulisova, V; AusrelŽ, KucinskienŽ, Z; Rehnstršm, K; Traglia, M; Nikitina-Zake, L; Zimprich, F; Antonarakis, SE; Estivill, X; Glavac, D; Gut, I; Klovins, J; Krawczak, M; Kucinskas, V; Lathrop, M; Macek, M; Marsal, S; Meitinger, T; Melegh, B; Limborska, S; Lubinski, J; Paolotie, A; Schreiber, S; Toncheva, D; Toniolo, D; Wichmann, HE; Zimprich, A; Metspalu, M; Gasparini, P; Metspalu, A; D'Adamo, P (2012) Genetic characterization of northeastern Italian population isolates in the context of broader European genetic diversity. European Journal of Human Genetics, xx - xx.


Behar DM, van Oven M, Rosset S, Metspalu M, Loogväli EL, Silva NM, Kivisild T, Torroni A, Villems R. (2012) A "Copernican" reassessment of the human mitochondrial DNA tree from its root. Am J Hum Genet. 2012 Apr 6;90(4):675-84.


Metspalu M, Romero IG, Yunusbayev B, Chaubey G, Mallick CB, Hudjashov G, Nelis M, Mägi R, Metspalu E, Remm M, Pitchappan R, Singh L, Thangaraj K, Villems R, Kivisild T. (2011) Shared and unique components of human population structure and genome-wide signals of positive selection in South Asia. Am J Hum Genet. 2011 Dec 9;89(6):731-44.


Rasmussen M, Guo X, Wang Y, Lohmueller KE, Rasmussen S, Albrechtsen A, Skotte L, Lindgreen S, Metspalu M, Jombart T, Kivisild T, Zhai W, Eriksson A, Manica A, Orlando L, De La Vega F, Tridico S, Metspalu E, Nielsen K, Avila-Arcos MC, Moreno-Mayar JV, Muller C, Dortch J, Gilbert MT, Lund O, Wesolowska A, Karmin M, Weinert LA, Wang B, Li J, Tai S, Xiao F, Hanihara T, van Driem G, Jha AR, Ricaut FX, de Knijff P, Migliano AB, Gallego-Romero I, Kristiansen K, Lambert DM, Brunak S, Forster P, Brinkmann B, Nehlich O, Bunce M, Richards M, Gupta R, Bustamante CD, Krogh A, Foley RA, Lahr MM, Balloux F, Sicheritz-PontŽn T, Villems R, Nielsen R, Jun W, Willerslev E. (2011) An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia. Science. 2011 Sep 22. [Epub ahead of print]


Yunusbayev B, Metspalu M, Järve M, Kutuev I, Rootsi S, Metspalu E, Behar DM, Varendi K, Sahakyan H, Khusainova R, Yepiskoposyan L, Khusnutdinova EK, Underhill PA, Kivisild T, Villems R. (2011) The Caucasus as an asymmetric semipermeable barrier to ancient human migrations. Mol Biol Evol. 2011 Sep 13. [Epub ahead of print]


Gallego Romero I, Basu Mallick C, Liebert A, Crivellaro F, Chaubey G, Itan Y, Metspalu M, Eaaswarkhanth M, Pitchappan R, Villems R, Reich D, Singh L, Thangaraj K, Thomas MG, Swallow DM, Miraz—n Lahr M, Kivisild T. (2011) Herders of Indian and European Cattle Share Their Predominant Allele for Lactase Persistence. Mol Biol Evol (2011) doi: 10.1093/molbev/msr190 Epub 2011 Sep 1.


Chaubey G, Metspalu M, Choi Y, Mägi R, Romero IG, Soares P, van Oven M, Behar DM, Rootsi S, Hudjashov G, Mallick CB, Karmin M, Nelis M, Parik J, Reddy AG, Metspalu E, van Driem G, Xue Y, Tyler-Smith C, Thangaraj K, Singh L, Remm M, Richards MB, Lahr MM, Kayser M, Villems R, Kivisild T. (2011) Population genetic structure in Indian Austroasiatic speakers: the role of landscape barriers and sex-specific admixture. Mol Biol Evol. 2011 Feb;28(2):1013-24. Epub 2010 Oct 26.


Behar DM, Yunusbayev B, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Rosset S, Parik J, Rootsi S, Chaubey G, Kutuev I, Yudkovsky G, Khusnutdinova EK, Balanovsky O, Semino O, Pereira L, Comas D, Gurwitz D, Bonne-Tamir B, Parfitt T, Hammer MF, Skorecki K, Villems R 2010 The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people.


Rasmussen M, Li Y, Lindgreen S, Pedersen JS, Albrechtsen A, Moltke I, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Kivisild T, Gupta R, Bertalan M, Nielsen K, Gilbert MT, Wang Y, Raghavan M, Campos PF, Kamp HM, Wilson AS, Gledhill A, Tridico S, Bunce M, Lorenzen ED, Binladen J, Guo X, Zhao J, Zhang X, Zhang H, Li Z, Chen M, Orlando L, Kristiansen K, Bak M, Tommerup N, Bendixen C, Pierre TL, Grønnow B, Meldgaard M, Andreasen C, Fedorova SA, Osipova LP, Higham TF, Ramsey CB, Hansen TV, Nielsen FC, Crawford MH, Brunak S, Sicheritz-Pontén T, Villems R, Nielsen R, Krogh A, Wang J, Willerslev E. (2010) Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo. Nature. 2010 Feb 11;463(7282):757-62.


Peter A Underhill, Natalie M Myres, Siiri Rootsi, Mait Metspalu, Lev A Zhivotovsky, Roy J King, Alice A Lin, Cheryl-Emiliane T Chow, Ornella Semino, Vincenza Battaglia, Ildus Kutuev, Mari Järve, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Qasim Ayub, Aisha Mohyuddin, S Qasim Mehdi, Sanghamitra Sengupta, Evgeny I Rogaev, Elza K Khusnutdinova, Andrey Pshenichnov, Oleg Balanovsky, Elena Balanovska, Nina Jeran, Dubravka Havas Augustin, Marian Baldovic, Rene J Herrera, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Vijay Singh, Lalji Singh, Partha Majumder, Pavao Rudan, Dragan Primorac, Richard Villems and Toomas Kivisild (2009) Separating the post-Glacial coancestry of European and Asian Y chromosomes within haplogroup R1a. EJHG. 2009 Aug 12.


Endicott P, Ho SY, Metspalu M, Stringer C. (2009) Evaluating the mitochondrial timescale of human evolution. Trends Ecol Evol. 2009 Aug 12.


Petraglia M, Clarkson C, Boivin N, Haslam M, Korisettar R, Chaubey G, Ditchfield P, Fuller D, James H, Jones S, Kivisild T, Koshy J, Lahr MM, Metspalu M, Roberts R, Arnold L. (2009) Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago. PNAS Jul 28;106(30):12261-6.


Chaubey G, Karmin M, Metspalu E, Metspalu M, Selvi-Rani D, Singh VK, Parik J, Solnik A, Naidu BP, Kumar A, Adarsh N, Mallick CB, Trivedi B, Prakash S, Reddy R, Shukla P, Bhagat S, Verma S, Vasnik S, Khan I, Barwa A, Sahoo D, Sharma A, Rashid M, Chandra V, Reddy AG, Torroni A, Foley RA, Thangaraj K, Singh L, Kivisild T, Villems R. (2008) Phylogeography of mtDNA haplogroup R7 in the Indian peninsula. BMC Evol Biol. 2008 Aug 4;8(1):227. [Epub ahead of print].


Gilbert MT, Kivisild T, Grønnow B, Andersen PK, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Tamm E, Axelsson E, Götherström A, Campos PF, Rasmussen M, Metspalu M, Higham TF, Schwenninger JL, Nathan R, De Hoog CJ, Koch A, Møller LN, Andreasen C, Meldgaard M, Villems R, Bendixen C, Willerslev E. (2008) Paleo-Eskimo mtDNA Genome Reveals Matrilineal Discontinuity in Greenland. Science. 2008 320, 1787 (Science express May 29).




S.S. Barik, R. Sahani, B.V.R. Prasad, P. Endicott, M. Metspalu, B.N. Sarkar, S. Bhattacharya, P.C.H. Annapoorna, J. Sreenath, D. Sun, J.J. Sanchez, S.Y.W. Ho, A. Chandrasekar, V.R. Rao (2008) Detailed mtDNA genotypes permit a reassessment of the settlement and population structure of the Andaman Islands. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2008 Jan 10; [Epub ahead of print]


Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Toomas Kivisild, Deepa SelviRani , Vijay Kumar Singh, Thanseem Ismail, Denise Carvalho-Silva, Mait Metspalu, LVKS Bhaskar, Alla G. Reddy, Sharat Chandra, Veena Pande, Prathap Naidu, Niharika Adarsh, Abhilasha Verma, Inaganti Amara Jyothi, Chandana Basu Mallick, Nidhi Shrivastava, Ragala Devasena, Babita Kumari, Amit Kumar Singh, Shailendra Kumar Dhar Diwedi, Shefali Singh, Geeta Rao, Pranav Gupta, Vartika Sonvane, Kavita Kumari, Afsar Basha, K. R Bhargavi, Albert Lalremruata, Aravind Kumar Gupta, Gurukamal Kaur, K. K. Reddy. A. Papa Rao, Richard Villems, Chris Tyler-Smith, Lalji Singh (2008) Maternal Footprints of Southeast Asians in North India. Hum Hered Jan 28;66(1):1-9 [Epub ahead of print]


Erika Tamm, Toomas Kivisild, Maere Reidla, Mait Metspalu, David Glenn Smith, Connie J Mulligan, Claudio M Bravi, Olga Rickards, Cristina Martinez-Labarga, Elsa K Khusnutdinova, Sardana A Fedorova, Maria V Golubenko, Vadim A Stepanov, Marina A Gubina, Sergey I Zhadanov, Ludmila P Ossipova, Larisa Damba, Mikhail I Voevoda, Jose E Dipierri, Richard Villems, Ripan S Malhi (2007) Beringian Standstill and Spread of Native American Founders. PLoSONE Sep 5;2(9):e829


Chaubey G, Metspalu M, Kivisild T, Villems R. (2007) Peopling of South Asia: investigating the cast-tribe continuum in India. BioEssays 29:1 (91-100)
Comment: Did the Dravidian speakers originate in Africa? by Clyde Winters Reply to Winters

Endicott P, Metspalu M, Stringer C, Macaulay V, Cooper A, et al. (2006) Multiplexed SNP Typing of Ancient DNA Clarifies the Origin of Andaman mtDNA Haplogroups amongst South Asian Tribal Populations. PLoS ONE 1(1): e81.


Sahoo S, Singh A, Himabindu G, Banerjee J, Sitalaximi T, Gaikwad S, Trivedi R, Endicott P, Kivisild T, Metspalu M, Villems R, Kashyap VK. (2006) A Prehistory of Indian Y chromosomes: Evaluating Demic Diffusion Scenarios. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103:4 .843-848


Metspalu M, Kivisild T, Metspalu E, Parik J, Hudjashov G, Kaldma K, Serk P, Karmin M, Behar DM, Gilbert MT, Endicott P, Mastana S, Papiha SS, Skorecki K, Torroni A, Villems R (2004) Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans. BMC Genetics 5:26
Correction:BMC Genetics 2005, 6:41

Kivisild T, Rootsi S, Metspalu M, Mastana S, Kaldma K, Parik J, Metspalu E, Adojaan M, Tolk H-V, Stepanov V, Gölge M, Usanga E, Papiha SS, Cinnioglu C, King R, Cavalli-Sforza L, Underhill PA, Villems R (2003a) The genetic heritage of the earliest settlers persists both in Indian tribal and caste populations. Am J Hum Genet 72:313-332


Kivisild T, Bamshad MJ, Kaldma K, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Laos S, Parik J, Watkins WS, Dixon ME, Papiha SS, Mastana SS, Mir MR, Ferak V, Villems R (1999a) Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages. Curr Biol 9:1331-1334


Book Chapters:

Endicott P, Metspalu M, Kivisild T (2007) Genetic evidence on modern human dispersals in South Asia: Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA perspectives. In: Petraglia M-D (ed) The Evolution and Diversity of Humans in South Asia. Springer/Kluwer Academic Publishers


Metspalu M, Kivisild T, Bandelt H-J, Richards M, Villems R (2006) The pioneer settlement of modern humans in Asia. In: Bandelt H-J, Macaulay V, Richards M (eds) Human mitochondrial DNA and the evolution of Homo sapiens. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg
supplementary Fig 1

Kivisild T, Metspalu M, Bandelt H-J, Richards M, Villems R (2006) The world mtDNA phylogeny. In: Bandelt H-J, Macaulay V, Richards M (eds) Human mitochondrial DNA and the evolution of Homo sapiens. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg


Kivisild T, Rootsi S, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Parik J, Kaldma K, Usanga E, Mastana S, Papiha S, Villems R (2003b) The Genetics of Language and Farming Spread in India. In: Bellwood P, Renfrew C (eds) Examining the farming/language dispersal hypothesis. The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, pp 215-222


Kivisild T, Papiha SS, Rootsi S, Parik J, Kaldma K, Reidla M, Laos S, Metspalu M, Pielberg G, Adojaan M, Metspalu E, Mastana SS, Wang Y, Gölge M, Demirtas H, Schnekenberg E, Stefano GF, Geberhiwot T, Claustres M, Villems R (2000) An Indian Ancestry: a key for understanding human diversity in Europe and beyond. In: Renfrew C, Boyle K (eds) Archaeogenetics: DNA and the population prehistory of Europe. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge, pp 267-279


Kivisild T, Kaldma K, Metspalu M, Parik J, Papiha SS, Villems R (1999b) The place of the Indian mitochondrial DNA variants in the global network of maternal lineages and the peopling of the Old World. In: Papiha SS, Deka R, Chakraborty R (eds) Genomic Diversity. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp 135-152


Other International:

Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Mait Metspalu, Monika Karmin, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Siiri Rootsi, Juri Parik, Anu Solnik, Deepe Selvi-Rani, Vijay Kumar Singh, Alla G. Reddy, Ene Metspalu, Lalji Singh, Toomas Kivisild, and Richard Villems (2008) Language shift by indigenous population: a model Genetic study in South Asia IJHG




in Estonian:

Metspalu M, (2008) Lämmastikväetise pärssiv mõju lämmastiku fikseerimisele halli lepa ja aktinomütseet Frankia sümbioosis. LOODUSKAITSEALASEID TÖID VIII, Toim. B. Peensoo, L. Roots. Tartu Üliõpilaste Looduskaitsering, Tartu, 2008


Metspalu M ja Tambets K (2004) Aasia asustamine kaasaegse inimese poolt: tulvavesi piki India Ookeani rannikut. Publicationes Instituti Geographici Universitatis Tartuensis 89, Toim. Ü. Mander, K. Remm, Tartu


Metspalu M, (2003) Eestlaste ema- ja isaliinidest Lääne-Euraasia kontekstis. LOODUSKAITSEALASEID TÖID VII, Toim. J. Eilart, J. Pärn T. Nuum, E. Kaur. Tartu Üliõpilaste Looduskaitsering, Tartu, 2003


Metspalu M, (2002) Mediaanvõrgud fülogeneesi kujutamisel. Võrkude teooria. Schola Biotheoretica XXVIII. Toim. I. Puura, T. Teder. Tartu: Sulemees, 2002.




Presentations at conferences:

"Graphing Genes, Cells and Embryos: Cultures of Seeing 3D and Beyond" Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin, June 11-15 2008
"Increasing resolution in phylogenetic studies can produce alternative rather than more detailed results."


"Genetics-Understanding Living Systems. XX International Congress of Genetics" July 12-17 2008, Berlin
Poster: High resolution survey of Andaman Islanders mtDNA variation suggests complex pattern for the peopling of the archipelago and hint for a back-migration event from Southeast Asia into South Asia


"HGM 2008. HUGO's 13th Human Genome Meeting" September 27-30 2008, Hyderabad, India
Poster: "High resolution phylogeographic study of mtDNA macrohaplogroup M in South Asia."


"Eesti Inimesegeneetika ühingu aastakonverents 2008" October 23-25 2008, Kuressaare , Estonia
"Geenid, keeled ja migratsioon"


seminar „Interdistsiplinaarseid võimalusi minevikusündmuste uurimisel” December 08-09 2007, Aegviidu, Estonia
"Eestlaste ema- ja isaliinidest"


"Fifth ISABS Conference in Forensic Genetics and Molecular Anthropology", September 3-7, 2007, Split, Croatia.
Poster: High resolution survey of Andaman Islanders mtDNA variation suggests complex pattern for the peopling of the archipelago and hint for a back-migration event from Southeast Asia into South Asia


15TH International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Congress 2003 Congress "Humankind/Nature Interaction: Past, Present and Future". Firenze 5-12 juuli 2003
Towards understanding the South Asian MtDNA tree


HUGO Human Genome Meeting, Shanghai 14-17 Aprill 2002
Poster: Commom Maternal Legacy of Indian Tribal and Caste Population


First Workshop on Information Technologies Application to Problems of Biodiversity and Dynamics of Ecosystems in North Eurasia (WITA-2001). Novosibirsk 14-19 juuli 2001
Human Mtdna And Y-Chromosomal Lineages Of Inda In The Context Of Eurasia


Eesti Inimesegeneetika Ühingu konverents "GENEETIKA 2000". Pärnus 12-13 mai 2000
Poster: Euraasia asustamine tänapäevase inimese poolt


4th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference, Sevilla 16-20 september 2000
Poster: Negative effect of N-fertilisation on N-fixation in Alnus-Frankia symbiosis as shown by N15 incorporation




Courses:

Wellcome Trust Advanced Course "Working with the HapMap" Hinxton, UK; 16-19 November 2007

A NBN-EBI course: ‘Databases in Bioinformatics’ European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK; October 4-5 2002

Reviewer for

Molecular Biology and Evolution (i.f.: 5.510)
GENE (i.f.: 2.266)
American Journal of Human Genetics(i.f.: 11.680)
European Journal of Human Genetics (i.f.: 4.380)
American Journal of Human Biology(i.f.: 2.021)
BMC Genetics (i.f.: 2.489)
PLoS ONE (i.f.: 4.411)


Teaching:

University of Tartu BGMR.02.023 Evolutionary Biology (starting 2006)
University of Tartu BGMR.02.018 Molecular evolution (introduction) (starting 2007)
Tallinn University of Technology YTP0081 Evolutionary Biology (starting 2008)


Scientific projects:



Estonian Science Foundation: The genetic structure of Eurasian populations and signals for local adaptations. A Case study of Circum Arctic populations. 2011-2014

Targeted financing (Long term institutional grants by the Estonian Government): Global structuring of human populations: migrations, drift and selection 2008-2013

Targeted financing (Long term institutional grants by the Estonian Government) Genome diversity and biological history of mankind 2003-2007

Estonian Science Foundation: Y-chromosomal phylogeny of the Volga-Ural and Siberian populations 2003-2006

INCO-COPERNICUS Project No ERBIC15CT960100 "Research and information on water purification by means of constructed wetlands (BIOPLATOS) in the Ukraine, supported by studies in Estonia, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden." 1998-2000

Manager of projects:

2008-2011 EU FP7-REGPOT-2007-1 nr.205419 "Unlocking the European Union convergence region potential in genetics (ECOGENE)"

2003-2006 EU FP5 No QLG2-CT-2002-90455 "Genetics for the European Research Area (GENERA)"

2000-2004 EU FP5 Centers of Excellence project No ICA1-CT-2000-70006 "Genetics for the next Millennium (GENEMILL)"

Wintertime mountaintreks:

Near-polar Urals, Russia (1993)
Kola Peninsula, Russia (1994)
Sarek National Park, northern Sweden (1995)
High-Tatra, Slovakia (1996)
Kola Peninsula, Russia (1998)
Eastarn-Sayan Mountains, Russia (1999)
Altay Mountains, Russia (2000)