Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén

Biographic Data

ID7993521
NAMEThomas Sicheritz‐Pontén
GIVEN NAMESThomas
FAMILY NAMESicheritz‐Pontén
SIGNATUREPONTÉN T S
AFFILIATIONSTechnical University of Denmark
ORCID0000-0001-6615-1141
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX0

  • Contamination of the Arctic reflected in microbial metagenomes from the Greenland ice sheet

    Open AccessAviaja Lyberth Hauptmann, Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Globally emitted contaminants accumulate in the Arctic and are stored in the frozen environments of the cryosphere. Climate change influences the release of these contaminants through elevated melt rates, resulting in increased contamination locally. Our understanding of how biological processes interact with contamination in the Arctic is limited. Through shotgun metagenomic data and binned genomes from metagenomes we show that microbial communi…

  • Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

    Open AccessMorten E Allentoft, Mateusz Sikora et al.ARTICLENature2015

    The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000–1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations, potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods to sequence low-coverage genomes from 101 ancient humans from across Eurasia. We show that the Bronze Age w…

  • Early Divergent Strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 Years Ago

    Open AccessSimon Rasmussen, Morten E Allentoft et al.ARTICLECell2015

    The bacteria Yersinia pestis is the etiological agent of plague and has caused human pandemics with millions of deaths in historic times. How and when it originated remains contentious. Here, we report the oldest direct evidence of Yersinia pestis identified by ancient DNA in human teeth from Asia and Europe dating from 2,800 to 5,000 years ago. By sequencing the genomes, we find that these ancient plague strains are basal to all known Yersinia p…

  • The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

    Open AccessMorten Rasmussen, Sarah L Anzick et al.ARTICLENature2014

  • Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

    Open AccessMaanasa Raghavan, Peter Skoglund et al.ARTICLENature2014

  • An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

    Open AccessMorten Rasmussen, Xiaosen Guo et al.ARTICLEScience2011

    Whole-genome data indicate that early modern humans expanded into Australia 62,000 to 75,000 years ago.

  • Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

    Open AccessMorten Rasmussen, Yingrui Li et al.ARTICLENature2010

    We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from ∼4,000-year-old permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known culture to settle in Greenland. Sequenced to an average depth of 20×, we recover 79% of the diploid genome, an amount close to the practical limit of current sequencing technologies. We identify 353,151 high-confidence single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), of which 6.8% hav…