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Ene Metspalu publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ene Metspalu sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 101 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Ene Metspalu D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ene Metspalu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ene Metspalu is affiliated with the University of Tartu in Estonia and works primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including Genetics, Archeology, Geography, Planning and Development, Molecular Biology, and Plant Science.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology

The scientist has contributed to multiple research papers notable for their focus on genetic ancestry, population genetics, and human evolutionary history. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Origin and diffusion of human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Genetic characterization of populations in the Marquesas Archipelago in the context of the Austronesian expansion," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Patterns of genetic connectedness between modern and medieval Estonian genomes reveal the origins of a major ancestry component of the Finnish population," 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ene Metspalu include:

  • Mait Metspalu
  • Maere Reidla
  • Kristiina Tambets
  • Lehti Saag
  • Anu Solnik

Publication venues where their research is often published include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • European Journal of Human Genetics
  • Science Advances
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics

This profile highlights a scientist whose work integrates genetics with archaeological and anthropological contexts, supported by frequent collaborations and contributions to recognized journals focused on human genetic diversity and history.

Best Publications

  • Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

    Iosif Lazaridis;Iosif Lazaridis;Nick Patterson;Alissa Mittnik;Gabriel Renaud

  • The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

    Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Heng Li;Mark Lipson;Iain Mathieson

  • Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

    Maanasa Raghavan;Pontus Skoglund;Kelly E. Graf;Mait Metspalu

  • Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

    Morten Rasmussen;Yingrui Li;Stinus Lindgreen;Jakob Skou Pedersen

  • An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

    Morten Rasmussen;Xiaosen Guo;Yong Wang;Kirk E. Lohmueller

  • Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Maanasa Raghavan;Matthias Steinrücken;Matthias Steinrücken;Kelley Harris;Stephan Schiffels

  • The dawn of human matrilineal diversity.

    Doron M. Behar;Richard Villems;Himla Soodyall;Jason Blue-Smith

  • Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

    Luca Pagani;Luca Pagani;Luca Pagani;Daniel John Lawson;Evelyn Jagoda;Evelyn Jagoda;Alexander Mörseburg

  • The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people

    Doron M. Behar;Bayazit Yunusbayev;Bayazit Yunusbayev;Mait Metspalu;Ene Metspalu

  • A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture

    Monika Karmin;Monika Karmin;Lauri Saag;Lauri Saag;Mário Vicente;Melissa A. Wilson Sayres;Melissa A. Wilson Sayres

  • The Genetic Heritage of the Earliest Settlers Persists Both in Indian Tribal and Caste Populations

    T. Kivisild;T. Kivisild;S. Rootsi;M. Metspalu;S. Mastana

  • Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans

    Mait Metspalu;Toomas Kivisild;Ene Metspalu;Juri Parik

  • A Signal, from Human mtDNA, of Postglacial Recolonization in Europe

    Antonio Torroni;Antonio Torroni;Hans Jürgen Bandelt;Vincent Macaulay;Martin Richards

  • Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages

    T. Kivisild;M.J. Bamshad;K. Kaldma;M. Metspalu

  • Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation

    Peter H. Sudmant;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Bradley J. Nelson;Fereydoun Hormozdiari

  • Ethiopian mitochondrial DNA heritage: tracking gene flow across and around the gate of tears.

    Toomas Kivisild;Maere Reidla;Ene Metspalu;Alexandra Rosa

  • The Western and Eastern Roots of the Saami—the Story of Genetic “Outliers” Told by Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosomes

    Kristiina Tambets;Siiri Rootsi;Toomas Kivisild;Hela Help

  • Paleo-Eskimo mtDNA Genome Reveals Matrilineal Discontinuity in Greenland

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Toomas Kivisild;Bjarne Grønnow;Pernille K. Andersen

  • Disuniting Uniformity: A Pied Cladistic Canvas of mtDNA Haplogroup H in Eurasia

    Eva Liis Loogväli;Urmas Roostalu;Boris A. Malyarchuk;Miroslava V. Derenko

  • Origin and Diffusion of mtDNA Haplogroup X

    Maere Reidla;Toomas Kivisild;Ene Metspalu;Katrin Kaldma

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu
Mait Metspalu
Mait Metspalu University of Tartu
E. K. Khusnutdinova
E. K. Khusnutdinova Russian Academy of Sciences
Doron M. Behar
Doron M. Behar University of Tartu
Reedik Mägi
Reedik Mägi University of Tartu
Antonio Torroni
Antonio Torroni University of Pavia
Kumarasamy Thangaraj
Kumarasamy Thangaraj Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Chris Tyler-Smith
Chris Tyler-Smith Wellcome Sanger Institute

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