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anthropology, population history, genomics, bioinformatics
Türkiye, Czech Republic

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Hacettepe University: Ankara, TR

2024-02-23 to present | Assistant Professor (Department of Anthropology)
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Hacettepe University: Ankara, Ankara, TR

2019-04-29 to 2024-02-23 | Instructor (Department of Anthropology)
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University of Ostrava: Ostrava, CZ

2015 to 2019-09-30 | Researcher (Life Science Research Center)
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Mustafa Kemal University: Hatay, TR

2014 to 2015 | Research Assistant (Anthropology)
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Education and qualifications (4)

University of Ostrava: Ostrava, CZ

2015 to 2019-08-26 | PhD (Biology and Ecology)
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Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History: Jena, DE

2018-09 to 2019-04 | Visiting Researcher (Archaeogenetics)
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Istanbul University: Istanbul, TR

2012 to 2015 | MSc (Molecular Biology and Genetics)
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Istanbul University: Istanbul, TR

2007 to 2012 | BSc (Molecular Biology and Genetics)
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Funding (1)

Investigation of the Population History of the Roman Era Coastal and Inland Societies in Anatolia from an Archaeogenomics Perspective

2021-10 to 2024-10 | Grant
Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma Kurumu (Ankara, TR)
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Works (28)

Demographic history of early centralized societies: A biodistance study on prehistoric Anatolia

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2025-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Demet Delibaş; N. Ezgi Altınışık; Marin A. Pilloud; M. Melis Koruyucu; Yılmaz Selim Erdal
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Benchmarking kinship estimation tools for ancient genomes using pedigree simulations

Molecular Ecology Resources
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Akturk, Sevval; Mapelli, Igor; Guler, Merve N.; Gurun, Kanat; Katircioglu, Buesra; Vural, Kivilcim Basak; Saglican, Ekin; Cetin, Mehmet; Yaka, Reyhan; Surer, Elif et al.
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Population Genomic History of the Endangered Anatolian and Cyprian Mouflons in Relation to Worldwide Wild, Feral, and Domestic Sheep Lineages

Genome Biology and Evolution
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Atag, Goezde; Kaptan, Damla; Yuncu, Eren; Vural, Kivilcim Basak; Mereu, Paolo; Pirastru, Monica; Barbato, Mario; Leoni, Giovanni Giuseppe; Guler, Merve Nur; Er, Tugce et al.
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DeepKin: Predicting relatedness from low-coverage genomes and paleogenomes with convolutional neural networks

2024-08-09 | Preprint
Contributors: Merve N. Güler; Ardan Yılmaz; Büşra Katırcıoğlu; Sarp Kantar; Tara Ekin Ünver; Kıvılcım Başak Vural; N. Ezgi Altınışık; Emre Akbaş; Mehmet Somel
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The first complete genome of the extinct European wild ass (Equus hemionus hydruntinus)

Molecular Ecology
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Mustafa Özkan; Kanat Gürün; Eren Yüncü; Kıvılcım Başak Vural; Gözde Atağ; Ali Akbaba; Fatma Rabia Fidan; Ekin Sağlıcan; Ezgi N. Altınışık; Dilek Koptekin et al.
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Population genomic history of the endangered Anatolian and Cyprian mouflons in relation to worldwide wild, feral and domestic sheep lineages

BioRxiv
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Atag, Gozde; Kaptan, Damla; Yuncu, Eren; Vural, Kivilcım Basak; Mereu, Paolo; Pirastru, Monica; Barbato, Mario; Leoni, Giovanni Giuseppe; Guler, Merve N; Er, Tugce et al.
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Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean

Current Biology
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Koptekin, Dilek; Yuncu, Eren; Rodriguez-Varela, Ricardo; Altinisxik, N. Ezgi; Psonis, Nikolaos; Kashuba, Natalia; Yorulmaz, Sevgi; George, Robert; Kazanci, Duygu Deniz; Kaptan, Damla et al.
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Pre-processing of paleogenomes: Mitigating reference bias and postmortem damage in ancient genome data

2023-11-13 | Preprint
Contributors: Dilek Koptekin; Etka Yapar; Kıvılcım Başak Vural; Ekin Sağlıcan; N. Ezgi Altınışık; Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas; Can Alkan; Mehmet Somel
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Archaeology meets Environmental Genomics: implementing sedaDNA in the study of the human past

2023-11-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Kadir Toykan Özdoğan; Pere Gelabert; Neeke Hammers; N. Ezgi Altınışık; Arjen Groot; Gertjan Plets
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aMeta: an accurate and memory-efficient ancient metagenomic profiling workflow

Genome Biology
2023-10-23 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1474-760X
Contributors: Zoé Pochon; Nora Bergfeldt; Emrah Kırdök; Mário Vicente; Thijessen Naidoo; Tom van der Valk; N. Ezgi Altınışık; Maja Krzewińska; Love Dalén; Anders Götherström et al.
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The first complete genome of the extinct European wild ass (Equus hemionus hydruntinus)

2023-06-07 | Preprint
Contributors: Mustafa Özkan; Kanat Gürün; Eren Yüncü; Kıvılcım Başak Vural; Gözde Atağ; Ali Akbaba; Fatma Rabia Fidan; Ekin Sağlıcan; N. Ezgi Altınışık; Dilek Koptekin et al.
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A genomic snapshot of demographic and cultural dynamism in Upper Mesopotamia during the Neolithic Transition

Science Advances
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Altinisik, N. Ezgi; Kazanci, Duygu Deniz; Aydogan, Ayca; Gemici, Hasan Can; Erdal, Ömür Dilek; Sarialtun, Savas; Vural, Kivilcim Basak; Koptekin, Dilek; Gurun, Kanat; Saglican, Ekin et al.
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The fight for evolution

eLife
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Altinisik, N. Ezgi
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altinisik/UpperMesopotamia: first release for zenodo

2022-09-16 | Software
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Indian genetic heritage in Southeast Asian populations

PLOS Genetics
2022-02-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Piya Changmai; Sandra Beleza; Kitipong Jaisamut; Jatupol Kampuansai; Wibhu Kutanan; N. Ezgi Altınışık; Olga Flegontova; Angkhana Inta; Eren Yüncü; Worrawit Boonthai et al.
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Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication

Communications Biology
2021-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2399-3642
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Collaborate equitably in ancient DNA research and beyond.

Nature
2021-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Somel M; Altınışık NE; Özer F; Ávila-Arcos MC
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Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes

Current Biology
2021-04-14 | Journal article
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Circumpolar peoples and their languages: lexical and genomic data suggest ancient Chukotko-Kamchatkan–Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic connections

2021-02-28 | Preprint
Contributors: George Starostin; N. Ezgi Altınışık; Mikhail Zhivlov; Piya Changmai; Olga Flegontova; Sergey A. Spirin; Andrei Zavgorodnii; Pavel Flegontov; Alexei S. Kassian
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Indian genetic heritage in Southeast Asian populations

Biorxiv
2021-01-21 | Preprint
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The genomic formation of First American ancestors in East and Northeast Asia

Biorxiv
2020-10-12 | Preprint
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Human inbreeding has decreased in time through the Holocene

Biorxiv
2020-09-24 | Preprint
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Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America

Nature
2019 | Journal article
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Contributors: Flegontov, P.; Altınışık, N.E.; Changmai, P.; Rohland, N.; Mallick, S.; Adamski, N.; Bolnick, D.A.; Broomandkhoshbacht, N.; Candilio, F.; Culleton, B.J. et al.
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Archaeogenomic analysis of the first steps of Neolithization in Anatolia and the Aegean

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2017-11-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Gülşah Merve Kılınç; Dilek Koptekin; Çiğdem Atakuman; Arev Pelin Sümer; Handan Melike Dönertaş; Reyhan Yaka; Cemal Can Bilgin; Ali Metin Büyükkarakaya; Douglas Baird; Ezgi Altınışık et al.
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Paleo-Eskimo genetic legacy across North America

2017-10 | Preprint
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Genomic study of the Ket: a Paleo-Eskimo-related ethnic group with significant ancient North Eurasian ancestry.

2016 | Journal article
Contributors: Flegontov P; Changmai P; Zidkova A; Logacheva MD; Altınışık NE; Flegontova O; Gelfand MS; Gerasimov ES; Khrameeva EE; Konovalova OP et al.
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Na-Dene populations descend from the Paleo-Eskimo migration into America

2016-09 | Other
Contributors: Pavel Flegontov; Nefize Ezgi Altinisik; Piya Changmai; Edward J Vajda; Johannes Krause; Stephan Schiffels
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Genotype Data for "A genomic snapshot of demographic and cultural dynamism in Upper Mesopotamia during the Neolithic Transition"

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Contributors: Altınışık, N. Ezgi; Somel, Mehmet
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Peer review (9 reviews for 5 publications/grants)

Review activity for American journal of biological anthropology. (2)
Review activity for American journal of physical anthropology. (2)
Review activity for Annals of human biology (2)
Review activity for Genome biology and evolution. (2)
Review activity for Human population genetics and genomics. (1)