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Wolfgang Haak

Wolfgang Haak

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Biology and Biochemistry

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65
Citations
24431
World Ranking
8958
National Ranking
653

Overview

Wolfgang Haak is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the life sciences and humanities, with a strong emphasis on genetics and archaeology. The scientist has made contributions to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Arts and Humanities.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Race, Genetics, and Society
  • Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research

Haak has published extensively in the subfields of Genetics, Archeology, Paleontology, Molecular Biology, and Ecology.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Wolfgang Haak include:

  • "A Dynamic 6,000-Year Genetic History of Eurasia's Eastern Steppe," 2020, Cell
  • "A Paleogenomic Reconstruction of the Deep Population History of the Andes," 2020, Cell
  • "The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool," 2022, Nature
  • "Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Genetic history from the Middle Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia," 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Haak include:

  • Johannes Krause
  • Adam B. Rohrlach
  • Ainash Childebayeva
  • Stephan Schiffels
  • Maïté Rivollat

Wolfgang Haak's work is often published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Scientific Reports
  • Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

    Wolfgang Haak;Iosif Lazaridis;Nick Patterson;Nadin Rohland

  • Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

    Iain Mathieson;Iosif Lazaridis;Iosif Lazaridis;Nadin Rohland;Nadin Rohland;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick

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

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

  • The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

    Qiaomei Fu;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Mateja Hajdinjak;Martin Petr

  • The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

    Iñigo Olalde;Selina Brace;Morten E. Allentoft;Ian Armit

  • The genomic history of southeastern Europe

    Iain Mathieson;Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Anna Szécsényi-Nagy

  • Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions

    Christina J Adler;Keith Dobney;Laura S Weyrich;John Kaidonis

  • 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

  • Ancient DNA from European early Neolithic farmers reveals their Near Eastern affinities

    Wolfgang Haak;Oleg Balanovsky;Juan J. Sanchez;Sergey Koshel

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

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

  • The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years.

    Iñigo Olalde;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Nick Patterson;Nadin Rohland

  • Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus

    Laura S. Weyrich;Sebastian Duchene;Julien Soubrier;Luis Arriola

  • Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe

    Cosimo Posth;Gabriel Renaud;Alissa Mittnik;Alissa Mittnik;Dorothée G. Drucker

  • Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas

    Bastien Llamas;Lars Fehren-Schmitz;Guido Valverde;Julien Soubrier

  • Ancient DNA reveals key stages in the formation of central European mitochondrial genetic diversity.

    Guido Brandt;Wolfgang Haak;Christina J. Adler;Christina Roth

  • Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

    Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Nathan Nakatsuka;Nathan Nakatsuka;Iosif Lazaridis;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund

  • Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age

    Wolfgang Haak;Guido Brandt;Hylke N. de Jong;Christian Meyer

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

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

  • Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia

    Ray Tobler;Adam Rohrlach;Julien Soubrier;Julien Soubrier;Pere Bover

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Nadin Rohland
Nadin Rohland Harvard University
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University
Joachim Burger
Joachim Burger Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer Max Planck Society
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu
Carles Lalueza-Fox
Carles Lalueza-Fox Pompeu Fabra University

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