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Joachim Burger is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research spans across several scientific fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. The most prominent subfields of their work are Genetics, Paleontology, Archaeology, Anthropology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Themes frequently explored in their publications cover Forensic and Genetic Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Genetic diversity and population structure, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology.

The scientist's publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • The genomic origins of the world's first farmers, 2022, Cell
  • Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years, 2020, Current Biology
  • The genomic history of the Aegean palatial civilizations, 2021, Cell
  • Screening archaeological bone for palaeogenetic and palaeoproteomic studies, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Ancient genomes provide insights into family structure and the heredity of social status in the early Bronze Age of southeastern Europe, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors contributing extensively to their research include Jens Blöcher, Laura Winkelbach, Yoan Diekmann, Daniel Wegmann, and Maxime Brami.

Their work appears predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Cell, PLoS ONE, and Science Advances.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection May Increase the Risk of Imprinting Defects

    Gerald F. Cox;Gerald F. Cox;Joachim Bürger;Va Lip;Ulrike A. Mau

  • A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

    Qiaomei Fu;Qiaomei Fu;Alissa Mittnik;Philip L.F. Johnson;Kirsten Bos;Kirsten Bos

  • Ancient DNA from the first European farmers in 7500-year-old Neolithic sites

    Wolfgang Haak;Peter Forster;Barbara Bramanti;Shuichi Matsumura

  • Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers

    B. Bramanti;M. G. Thomas;Wolfgang Haak;M. Unterlaender

  • The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe

    Yuval Itan;Adam Powell;Mark A. Beaumont;Joachim Burger

  • Absence of the lactase-persistence-associated allele in early Neolithic Europeans

    J. Burger;M. Kirchner;B. Bramanti;Wolfgang Haak

  • Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

    Zuzana Hofmanová;Susanne Kreutzer;Garrett Hellenthal;Christian Sell

  • Evolution of lactase persistence: an example of human niche construction

    Pascale Gerbault;Anke Liebert;Yuval Itan;Adam Powell

  • Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates

    Frido Welker;Matthew J. Collins;Jessica A. Thomas;Marc Wadsley

  • Parallel palaeogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers.

    Mark Lipson;Anna Szécsényi-Nagy;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Annamária Pósa

  • DNA preservation: a microsatellite-DNA study on ancient skeletal remains.

    Joachim Burger;Susanne Hummel;Bernd Herrmann;Winfried Henke

  • Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series

    Antoine Fages;Antoine Fages;Kristian Hanghøj;Kristian Hanghøj;Naveed Khan;Naveed Khan;Charleen Gaunitz

  • Mitochondrial DNA analysis shows a Near Eastern Neolithic origin for domestic cattle and no indication of domestication of European aurochs

    Ceiridwen J. Edwards;Ruth Bollongino;Amelie Scheu;Andrew Chamberlain

  • Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent

    Farnaz Broushaki;Mark G. Thomas;Vivian Link;Vivian Link;Saioa López

  • A population genetics view of animal domestication

    Greger Larson;Joachim Burger

  • Direct evidence for positive selection of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation in Europeans during the last 5,000 y

    Sandra Wilde;Adrian Timpson;Karola Kirsanow;Elke Kaiser

  • Modern Taurine Cattle descended from small number of Near-Eastern founders

    Ruth Bollongino;Ruth Bollongino;Joachim Burger;Adam Powell;Marjan Mashkour

  • Ancient European dog genomes reveal continuity since the Early Neolithic.

    Laura R. Botigué;Shiya Song;Amelie Scheu;Shyamalika Gopalan

  • 2000 years of parallel societies in Stone Age Central Europe.

    Ruth Bollongino;Olaf Nehlich;Michael P. Richards;Jörg Orschiedt

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark G. Thomas
Mark G. Thomas University College London
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Daniel G. Bradley
Daniel G. Bradley Trinity College Dublin
Wolfgang Haak
Wolfgang Haak Max Planck Society
Matthew J. Collins
Matthew J. Collins University of Cambridge
André Reis
André Reis University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Nadin Rohland
Nadin Rohland Harvard University
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University

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