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37 publications

2026

Preprint

Ancient DNA reveals matrilineal organisation and recurrent unions between dominant matrilines in Iron Age Britain

Iñigo Olalde, Ian Armit, Lindsey Büster, Diego Esteve-Gómez, Núria Puig I Riera, Almudena Sánchez-Sanz, et al. · bioRxiv, 10.64898/2026.08.03.742615

2026

Scientific paper

Lasting Lower Rhine-Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion

Iñigo Olalde, Eveline Altena, Quentin Bourgeois, et al. · Nature 652, 938-946

2026

Scientific paper

The genetic legacy of the 17th-century colonial capital of St. Mary’s City

Éadaoin Harney, Ethan Jewett, Steven Micheletti, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Current Biology 36(11), 2731-2743.e6

2025

Scientific paper

A comprehensive phylogeny of mammalian PRNP gene reveals no influence of prion misfolding propensity on the evolution of this gene

Cristina Sampedro-Torres-Quevedo, Hasier Eraña, Jorge M. Charco, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · PLOS Pathogens 21(6), 1-25

2025

Scientific paper

Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples

Tian Chen Zeng, Leonid A Vyazov, Alexander Kim, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Nature 644(8075), 122-132

2025

Scientific paper

Exploring the association between SNPs and facial morphology in a Spanish population

Belén Navarro-López, Franziska Wilke, Victoria Suárez-Ulloa, Miriam Baeta, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Scientific Reports 15(1), 1-11

2025

Scientific paper

Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors

Harald Ringbauer, Ayelet Salman-Minkov, Dalit Regev, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Nature

2025

Scientific paper

The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans

Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson, David Anthony, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Nature 639(8053), 132-142

2025

Scientific paper

La irrupción de los muertos en las iglesias parroquiales de fines de la Edad Media. Análisis de su materialidad a partir de un caso de estudio (Santa María de Portilla, Zambrana, Álava)

José Luis Solaun, Lourdes Herrasti, Caterina Raffone, Miriam Baeta, et al. · Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia 76, 141–158

2024

Scientific paper

Social and genetic diversity among the first farmers of Central Europe

Pere Gelabert, Penny Bickle, Daniela Hofmann, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Nature human behaviour 9, 53-64

2024

Preprint

Disparate demographic impacts of the Roman Colonization and the Migration Period in the Iberian Peninsula

Pablo Carrión, Iñigo Olalde, Juan Manuel Jiménez-Arenas, et al. · bioRxiv

2024

Scientific paper

Historical and archaeogenomic identification of high-status Englishmen at Jamestown, Virginia

Douglas W. Owsley, Karin S. Bruwelheide, Éadaoin Harney, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Antiquity 98(400), 1040-1054

2024

Scientific paper

Microsatellites’ mutation modeling through the analysis of the Y-chromosomal transmission: Results of a GHEP-ISFG collaborative study

Sofia Antão-Sousa, Leonor Gusmão, Nidia M. Modesti, Miriam Baeta, et al. · Forensic Science International: Genetics 69, 102999

2024

Scientific paper

Y-chromosome analysis recapitulates key events of Mediterranean populations

Belén Navarro-López, Miriam Baeta, O. Moreno-López, Caterina Raffone, et al. · Heliyon 10(16), e35329

2023

Scientific paper

A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations

Iñigo Olalde, Pablo Carrión, Ilija Mikić, et al. · Cell 186(25)

2023

Scientific paper

The genetic legacy of African Americans from Catoctin Furnace

Éadaoin Harney, Steven Micheletti, Karin S. Bruwelheide, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Science 381(6657), eade4995

2022

Scientific paper

Stone Age Yersinia pestis genomes shed light on the early evolution, diversity, and ecology of plague

Aida Andrades Valtueña, Gunnar U Neumann, Maria A Spyrou, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(17), e2116722119

2022

Scientific paper

At the beginnings of the funerary Megalithism in Iberia at Campo de Hockey necropolis

Eduardo Vijande-Vila, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Berta Morell-Rovira, Íñigo Olalde, et al. · Scientific Reports 12(1), 1-21

2022

Scientific paper

Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers

Mark Lipson, Elizabeth A Sawchuk, Jessica C Thompson, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Nature 603(7900), 290-296

2022

Scientific paper

Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia

Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Camila Oliart, Cristina Rihuete-Herrada, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Scientific Reports 12, 1-15

2022

Scientific paper

Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century

Shamam Waldman, Daniel Backenroth, Eadaoin Harney, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Cell 185(25), 4703-4716

2022

Scientific paper

A genetic probe into the ancient and medieval history of Southern Europe and West Asia

Iosif Lazaridis, Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, Ayşe Acar, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Science 377(6609), 940-951

2022

Scientific paper

Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia

Iosif Lazaridis, Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, Ayşe Acar, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Science 377(6609), 982-987

2022

Scientific paper

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

Iosif Lazaridis, Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, Ayşe Acar, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Science 377(6609), eabm4247

2022

Scientific paper

Look-alike humans identified by facial recognition algorithms show genetic similarities

Ricky S Joshi, Maria Rigau, Carlos A García-Prieto, Iñigo Olalde, et al. · Cell Reports 40(8), 111257

2022

Scientific paper

Development and validation of a new multiplex for upgrading Y-STRs population databases from 12 to 23 markers and its forensic casework application

Belén Navarro-López, Miriam Baeta, Eva Granizo-Rodríguez, O. Moreno-López, Tamara Kleinbielen, Joana Francesca Ferragut, Antònia Picornell, Marian M. de Pancorbo · Scientific Reports 12(1), 21734