• Diverse variola virus (smallpox) strains were widespread in northern Europe in the Viking Age 

      Mühlemann, Barbara; Vinner, Lasse; Margaryan, Ashot; Wilhelmson, Helene; Castro, Constanza De La Fuente; Allentoft, Morten E.; Damgaard, Peter De Barros; Hansen, Anders J.; Nielsen, Sofie Holtsmark; Strand, Lisa Mariann; Bill, Jan; Buzhilova, Alexandra; Pushkina, Tamara; Falys, Ceri; Khartanovich, Valeri; Moiseyev, Vyacheslav; Jørkov, Marie Louise Schjellerup; Sørensen, Palle Østergaard; Magnusson, Yvonne; Gustin, Ingrid; Schroeder, Hannes; Sutter, Gerd; Smith, Geoffrey L.; Drosten, Christian; Fouchier, Ron A. M.; Smith, Derek J.; Willerslev, Eske; Jones, Terry C.; Sikora, Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Humans have a notable capacity to withstand the ravages of infectious diseases. Smallpox killed millions of people but drove Jenner's invention of vaccination, which eventually led to the annihilation of this virus, declared ...
    • Population genomics of the Viking world 

      Margaryan, Ashot; Lawson, Daniel J.; Sikora, Martin; Racimo, Fernando; Rasmussen, Simon; Moltke, Ida; Cassidy, Lara M.; Jørsboe, Emil; Ingason, Andres; Pedersen, Mikkel Winther; Korneliussen, Thorfinn; Wilhelmson, Helene; Bus, Magdalena M.; de Barros Damgaard, Peter; Martiniano, Rui; Renaud, Gabriel; Bhérer, Claude; Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor; Fotakis, Anna K.; Allen, Marie; Allmäe, Raili; Molak, Martyna; Cappellini, Enrico; Scorrano, Gabriele; McColl, Hugh; Buzhilova, Alexandra; Fox, Allison; Albrechtsen, Anders; Schütz, Berit; Skar, Birgitte; Arcini, Caroline; Falys, Ceri; Jonson, Charlotte Hedenstierna; Błaszczyk, Dariusz; Pezhemsky, Denis; Turner-Walker, Gordon; Gestsdóttir, Hildur; Lundstrøm, Inge; Gustin, Ingrid; Mainland, Ingrid; Potekhina, Inna; Muntoni, Italo M.; Cheng, Jade Y.; Stenderup, Jesper; Ma, Jilong; Gibson, Julie; Peets, Jüri; Gustafsson, Jörgen; Iversen, Katrine Højholt; Simpson, Linzi; Strand, Lisa Mariann; Loe, Louise; Sikora, Maeve; Florek, Marek; Vretemark, Maria; Redknap, Mark; Bajka, Monika; Pushkina, Tamara; Søvsø, Morten; Grigoreva, Natalia; Christensen, Tom; Kastholm, Ole; Uldum, Otto; Favia, Pasquale; Holck, Per; Sten, Sabine; Arge, Símun V; Ellingvåg, Sturla; Moiseyev, Vayacheslav; Bogdanowicz, Wiesław; Magnusson, Yvonne; Orlando, Ludovic; Pentz, Peter; Jessen, Mads Dengsø; Pedersen, Anne; Collard, Mark; Bradley, Daniel G.; Jørkov, Marie Louise; Arneborg, Jette; Lynnerup, Niels; Price, Neil; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Allentoft, Morten E.; Bill, Jan; Sindbæk, Søren M; Hedeager, Lotte; Kristiansen, Kristian; Nielsen, Rasmus; Werge, Thomas; Willerslev, Eske (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age (about ad 750–1050) was a far-flung transformation in world history1,2. Here we sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites across ...