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Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

2016 to present | Researcher (Department of Organismal Biology)
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Helena Malmström

Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

2012 to 2016 | Researcher (Department of Evolutionary Biology)
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Helena Malmström

Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

2009 to 2010 | Post doc (Department of Evolutionary Biology)
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Helena Malmström

Copenhagen University: Copenhagen, DK

2007 to 2008 | Post doc (Ancient DNA and Evolution)
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Helena Malmström

Education and qualifications (3)

Uppsala Universitet: Uppsala, SE

2003-07-01 to 2007-09-21 | PhD (Evolutionary Biology)
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Helena Malmström

Linköping University: Linköping, SE

2002 to 2003 | Biomedical Research School (Hälsouniversitetet)
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Helena Malmström

Stockholms Universitet: Stockholm, SE

1994 to 2002 | Master of Arts in Humanities (major in Archaeology) (Department of History)
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Funding (6)

Stone Age Ajvide revisited – intra-site variation,genetic- and social kinship

2022-06 to 2024-05 | Grant
Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Stockholm, SE)
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P21-0266

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Helena Malmström

Alvastra - archaeogenetics, archaeology and cultural interactions

2018-01 to 2021-12 | Grant
Vetenskapsrådet (Stockholm, SE)
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2017-02503

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Helena Malmström

Archaeogenetics as a means to investigate human interaction in Stone Age Scandinavia

2018-01 to 2019-12 | Grant
Erik Philip-Sörensens Stiftelse (Malmö, SE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

G2017-087

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Helena Malmström

Post doc scholarship

2009 to 2010 | Grant
Elin and Tage Westin Fund (Uppsala, SE)
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Helena Malmström

Study Scholarship

2004 to 2005 | Grant
Sven and Lily Lawski Fund (Uppsala, SE)
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Helena Malmström

Study Scholarship

2003 to 2004 | Grant
Sven and Lily Lawski Fund (Uppsala, SE)
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Helena Malmström

Works (47)

Wide-scale Geographical Analysis of Genetic Ancestry in the South African Coloured Population

2024-06-14 | Preprint
Contributors: Imke Lankheet; Rickard Hammarén; Lucía Ximena Alva Caballero; Maximilian Larena; Helena Malmström; Cecile Jolly; Himla Soodyall; Michael de Jongh; Carina Schlebusch
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READv2: Advanced and user-friendly detection of biological relatedness in archaeogenomics

2024-01-23 | Preprint
Contributors: Erkin Alaçamlı; Thijessen Naidoo; Şevval Aktürk; Merve N. Güler; Igor Mapelli; Kıvılcım Başak Vural; Mehmet Somel; Helena Malmström; Torsten Günther
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The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

2023-04 | Preprint
Contributors: Fortes-Lima CA; Burgarella C; Hammarén R; Eriksson A; Vicente M; Jolly C; Semo A; Gunnink H; Pacchiarotti S; Mundeke L et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Genetic continuity, isolation, and gene flow in Stone Age Central and Eastern Europe

2022-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Mattila T; Svensson E; Juras A; Günther T; Kashuba N; Ala-Hulkko T; Chyleński M; Pospieszny Ł; Constantinescu M; Rotea M et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world.

Current biology : CB
2021-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Larena M; McKenna J; Sanchez-Quinto F; Bernhardsson C; Ebeo C; Reyes R; Casel O; Huang JY; Hagada KP; Guilay D et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Maternal genetic origin of the late and final Neolithic human populations from present-day Poland.

American journal of physical anthropology
2021-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Juras A; Ehler E; Chyleński M; Pospieszny Ł; Spinek AE; Malmström H; Krzewińska M; Szostek K; Pasterkiewicz W; Florek M et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2021-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Larena M; Sanchez-Quinto F; Sjödin P; McKenna J; Ebeo C; Reyes R; Casel O; Huang JY; Hagada KP; Guilay D et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups.

American journal of physical anthropology
2021-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Coutinho A; Malmström H; Edlund H; Henshilwood CS; van Niekerk KL; Lombard M; Schlebusch CM; Jakobsson M
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens.

Molecular biology and evolution
2020-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Schlebusch CM; Sjödin P; Breton G; Günther T; Naidoo T; Hollfelder N; Sjöstrand AE; Xu J; Gattepaille LM; Vicente M et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Y-Chromosome Variation in Southern African Khoe-San Populations Based on Whole-Genome Sequences.

Genome biology and evolution
2020-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Naidoo T; Xu J; Vicente M; Malmström H; Soodyall H; Jakobsson M; Schlebusch CM
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

The Neolithic Pitted Ware culture foragers were culturally but not genetically influenced by the Battle Axe culture herders.

American journal of physical anthropology
2020-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Coutinho A; Günther T; Munters AR; Svensson EM; Götherström A; Storå J; Malmström H; Jakobsson M
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Mitochondrial genomes from Bronze Age Poland reveal genetic continuity from the Late Neolithic and additional genetic affinities with the steppe populations.

American journal of physical anthropology
2020-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Juras A; Makarowicz P; Chyleński M; Ehler E; Malmström H; Krzewińska M; Pospieszny Ł; Górski J; Taras H; Szczepanek A et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

The genomic ancestry of the Scandinavian Battle Axe Culture people and their relation to the broader Corded Ware horizon

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2019-10-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Helena Malmström; Torsten Günther; Emma M. Svensson; Anna Juras; Magdalena Fraser; Arielle R. Munters; Łukasz Pospieszny; Mari Tõrv; Jonathan Lindström; Anders Götherström et al.
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Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2019-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Sánchez-Quinto F; Malmström H; Fraser M; Girdland-Flink L; Svensson EM; Simões LG; George R; Hollfelder N; Burenhult G; Noble G et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Mitochondrial genomes reveal an east to west cline of steppe ancestry in Corded Ware populations.

Scientific reports
2018-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Juras A; Chyleński M; Ehler E; Ehler E; Malmström H; Żurkiewicz D; Włodarczak P; Wilk S; Peška J; Fojtík P et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Mitochondrial genomes reveal an east to west cline of steppe ancestry in Corded Ware populations

Scientific Reports
2018-08-02 | Journal article
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Helena Malmström

Four millennia of Iberian biomolecular prehistory illustrate the impact of prehistoric migrations at the far end of Eurasia.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2018-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Valdiosera C; Günther T; Vera-Rodríguez JC; Ureña I; Iriarte E; Rodríguez-Varela R; Simões LG; Martínez-Sánchez RM; Svensson EM; Malmström H et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Population genomics of Mesolithic Scandinavia: Investigating early postglacial migration routes and high-latitude adaptation.

PLoS biology
2018-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Günther T; Malmström H; Svensson EM; Omrak A; Sánchez-Quinto F; Kılınç GM; Krzewińska M; Eriksson G; Fraser M; Edlund H et al.
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Helena Malmström via Europe PubMed Central

Late Danubian mitochondrial genomes shed light into the Neolithisation of Central Europe in the 5th millennium BC

BMC Evolutionary Biology
2017 | Journal article
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Contributors: Chyleński, M.; Juras, A.; Ehler, E.; Malmström, H.; Piontek, J.; Jakobsson, M.; Marciniak, A.; Dabert, M.
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Helena Malmström via Scopus - Elsevier

DNA-analys av arkeologiska material

Arkeologi på Gotland 2. Tillbakablickar och nya forskningsrön.
2017-12-15 | Book chapter
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Helena Malmström

Populationsgenetiska mönster på Gotland under Neolitikum. –Den gropkeramiska kulturen

Arkeologi på Gotland 2. Tillbakablickar och nya forskningsrön.
2017-12-15 | Book chapter
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Helena Malmström

Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
2017-09 | Journal article
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Genomics of Mesolithic Scandinavia reveal colonization routes and high-latitude adaptation

2017-07-17 | Preprint
Contributors: Torsten Günther; Helena Malmström; Emma M. Svensson; Ayça Omrak; Federico Sánchez-Quinto; Gülşah M. Kılınç; Maja Krzewińska; Gunilla Eriksson; Magdalena Fraser; Hanna Edlund et al.
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Ancient genomes from southern Africa pushes modern human divergence beyond 260,000 years ago

2017-06-05 | Preprint
Contributors: Carina M. Schlebusch; Helena Malmström; Torsten Günther; Per Sjödin; Alexandra Coutinho; Hanna Edlund; Arielle R. Munters; Maryna Steyn; Himla Soodyall; Marlize Lombard et al.
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Investigating kinship of Neolithic post-LBK human remains from Krusza Zamkowa, Poland using ancient DNA.

2017-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Juras A; Chyleński M; Krenz-Niedbała M; Malmström H; Ehler E; Pospieszny Ł; Łukasik S; Bednarczyk J; Piontek J; Jakobsson M et al.
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Erik den heliges skelett

Fornvannen
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85018699337

Contributors: Sten, S.; Lovén, C.; Kjellström, A.; Lidén, K.; Vretemark, M.; Vala, C.H.; Ljunggren, O.; Fjällström, M.; Shalabi, A.; Duvernoy, O. et al.
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Long-term genetic stability and a high-altitude East Asian origin for the peoples of the high valleys of the Himalayan arc.

2016-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Jeong C; Ozga AT; Witonsky DB; Malmström H; Edlund H; Hofman CA; Hagan RW; Jakobsson M; Lewis CM; Aldenderfer MS et al.
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Genomic Evidence Establishes Anatolia as the Source of the European Neolithic Gene Pool.

2016-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Omrak A; Günther T; Valdiosera C; Svensson EM; Malmström H; Kiesewetter H; Aylward W; Storå J; Jakobsson M; Götherström A
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Anthropological description of skeletal material from the Dniester barrow-cemetary complex, Yampil region, Vinnitsa oblast (Ukraine)

Baltic-Pontic Studies
2015 | Journal article
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Helena Malmström

Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques.

2015-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Günther T; Valdiosera C; Malmström H; Ureña I; Rodriguez-Varela R; Sverrisdóttir ÓO; Daskalaki EA; Skoglund P; Naidoo T; Svensson EM et al.
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POPULATION GENETICS. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans.

2015-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Raghavan M; Steinrücken M; Harris K; Schiffels S; Rasmussen S; DeGiorgio M; Albrechtsen A; Valdiosera C; Ávila-Arcos MC; Malaspinas AS et al.
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Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the northern fringe of the Neolithic farming expansion in Europe sheds light on the dispersion process.

2015-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Malmström H; Linderholm A; Skoglund P; Storå J; Sjödin P; Gilbert MT; Holmlund G; Willerslev E; Jakobsson M; Lidén K et al.
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Ancient DNA reveals matrilineal continuity in present-day Poland over the last two millennia.

2014 | Journal article
Contributors: Juras A; Dabert M; Kushniarevich A; Malmström H; Raghavan M; Kosicki JZ; Metspalu E; Willerslev E; Piontek J
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The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic.

2014-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Raghavan M; DeGiorgio M; Albrechtsen A; Moltke I; Skoglund P; Korneliussen TS; Grønnow B; Appelt M; Gulløv HC; Friesen TM et al.
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Genomic diversity and admixture differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian foragers and farmers.

2014-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Skoglund P; Malmström H; Omrak A; Raghavan M; Valdiosera C; Günther T; Hall P; Tambets K; Parik J; Sjögren KG et al.
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Establishing the validity of domestication genes using DNA from ancient chickens.

2014-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Girdland Flink L; Allen R; Barnett R; Malmström H; Peters J; Eriksson J; Andersson L; Dobney K; Larson G
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Origins and genetic legacy of Neolithic farmers and hunter-gatherers in Europe.

2012-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Skoglund P; Malmström H; Raghavan M; Storå J; Hall P; Willerslev E; Gilbert MT; Götherström A; Jakobsson M
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Finding the founder of Stockholm - a kinship study based on Y-chromosomal, autosomal and mitochondrial DNA.

2012-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Malmström H; Vretemark M; Tillmar A; Durling MB; Skoglund P; Gilbert MT; Willerslev E; Holmlund G; Götherström A
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High frequency of lactose intolerance in a prehistoric hunter-gatherer population in northern Europe.

2010 | Journal article
Contributors: Malmström H; Linderholm A; Lidén K; Storå J; Molnar P; Holmlund G; Jakobsson M; Götherström A
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Response to comment by poinar et al on "DNA from pre-clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America"

Science
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-67650448069

Contributors: Gilbert, M.T.P.; Jenkins, D.L.; Higham, T.F.G.; Rasmussen, M.; Malmström, H.; Svensson, E.M.; Sanchez, J.J.; Cummings, L.S.; Yohe II, R.M.; Hofreiter, M. et al.
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Ancient DNA reveals lack of continuity between neolithic hunter-gatherers and contemporary Scandinavians.

2009-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Malmström H; Gilbert MT; Thomas MG; Brandström M; Storå J; Molnar P; Andersen PK; Bendixen C; Holmlund G; Götherström A et al.
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Barking up the wrong tree: modern northern European dogs fail to explain their origin.

2008 | Journal article
Contributors: Malmström H; Vilà C; Gilbert MT; Storå J; Willerslev E; Holmlund G; Götherström A
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Cryptic contamination and phylogenetic nonsense.

2008 | Journal article
Contributors: Linderholm A; Malmström H; Lidén K; Holmlund G; Götherström A
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Tracing genetic change over time using nuclear SNPs in ancient and modern cattle.

2007-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Svensson EM; Anderung C; Baubliene J; Persson P; Malmström H; Smith C; Vretemark M; Daugnora L; Götherström A
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More on contamination: the use of asymmetric molecular behavior to identify authentic ancient human DNA.

2007-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Malmström H; Svensson EM; Gilbert MT; Willerslev E; Götherström A; Holmlund G
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DNA-teknik, gamla ben och Birger jarl

Birger Magnusson - den siste jarlen. Skrifter från Västergötlands museum nr 35
2006 | Book chapter
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Helena Malmström

Extensive human DNA contamination in extracts from ancient dog bones and teeth.

2005-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Malmström H; Storå J; Dalén L; Holmlund G; Götherström A
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