Kendra A Sirak

Biographic Data

ID173967
NAMEKendra A Sirak
GIVEN NAMESKendra A
FAMILY NAMESirak
SIGNATURESIRAK K A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College Dublin
ORCID0000-0003-2347-3479
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • DNA insights into Neolithic society

    Open AccessKendra A Sirak, Kendra SirakARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023References: 8

  • Ancient Human DNA and African Population History

    Kendra A Sirak, E A Sawchuk et al.CHAPTER2022

    Ancient DNA has emerged as a powerful tool for investigating the human past and reconstructing the movements, mixtures, and adaptations that have structured genetic variation throughout human history. While the study of genome-wide ancient human DNA was initially restricted to regions with temperate climates, methodological breakthroughs have now extended the reach of ancient DNA analysis to parts of the world with hot and humid climates that are…

  • The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

    Open AccessVagheesh M Narasimhan, Nick Patterson et al.ARTICLEScience2019

    Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspective by Schaefer and Shapiro). They establish key phases in the population prehistory of Eurasia, incl…

  • Balancing analytical goals and anthropological stewardship in the midst of the paleogenomics revolution

    Kendra A Sirak, Jakob W SedigARTICLEWorld Archaeology2019Cited by: 10References: 71

    Ancient DNA research is on a trajectory of rapid growth and is becoming an increasingly important part of the archaeologist's toolkit. In this paper, we situate the current relationship between ancient DNA and archaeology within the context of how other destructive scientific methods were incorporated into archaeological work. We discuss the need for discipline-wide standards for the destructive sampling of human remains for ancient DNA analysis …

  • The genomic history of southeastern Europe

    Open AccessIain Mathieson, Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al.ARTICLENature2018

  • Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory

    Open AccessMark Lipson, Olivia Cheronet et al.ARTICLEScience2018

    Ancient migrations in Southeast Asia The past movements and peopling of Southeast Asia have been poorly represented in ancient DNA studies (see the Perspective by Bellwood). Lipson et al. generated sequences from people inhabiting Southeast Asia from about 1700 to 4100 years ago. Screening of more than a hundred individuals from five sites yielded ancient DNA from 18 individuals. Comparisons with present-day populations suggest two waves of mixin…

  • Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

    Open AccessIosif Lazaridis, Dani Nadel et al.ARTICLENature2016

  • Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific

    Open AccessPeter Skoglund, Pontus Skoglund et al.ARTICLENature2016

  • Developmental patterns of bilateral asymmetry in ancestral puebloans

    Open AccessErin B Waxenbaum, Kendra A SirakARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2016

    OBJECTIVES: Producing and maintaining a bilaterally symmetric phenotype throughout the lifespan is energetically demanding. Over the course of an individual's life, various intrinsic and external stressors impact the growth trajectory. These perturbations can compromise the allocation of energetic resources to processes that maintain developmental precision, potentially resulting in bilateral asymmetry (BA). Because different stressors are presen…

  • Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

    Open AccessIain Mathieson, Iosif Lazaridis et al.ARTICLENature2015

  • Optimal Ancient DNA Yields from the Inner Ear Part of the Human Petrous Bone

    Open AccessRon Pinhasi, Daniel M Fernandes et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2015

    The invention and development of next or second generation sequencing methods has resulted in a dramatic transformation of ancient DNA research and allowed shotgun sequencing of entire genomes from fossil specimens. However, although there are exceptions, most fossil specimens contain only low (~ 1% or less) percentages of endogenous DNA. The only skeletal element for which a systematically higher endogenous DNA content compared to other skeletal…

  • Analysis of nutritional disease in prehistory

    Open AccessGeorge J Armelagos, Kendra A Sirak et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2014