Polishgenes Blog

When used properly, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an extraordinarily powerful tool and one of the best ways to study fine-scale gene...

Years of blogging about population genetics has seriously eroded my faith in the peer review process. During the past decade I've witn...

Case in point, here's a quote from a recent paper at the Journal of Human Genetics (emphasis is mine): The Mordovian and Csango samp...

A new preprint featuring hundreds of Viking Age genomes has appeared at bioRxiv [ LINK ]. Titled Population genomics of the Viking world , ...

Below are three of my staple Principal Component Analyses (PCA) featuring Baltic Bronze Age (Baltic_BA) samples from the recent Mittnik et a...

Over at BMC Genetics at this LINK . The accompanying dataset is freely available here , although it includes less than 300K SNPs, so the ov...

Below is a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) that I put together for an upcoming presentation on Polish ancient DNA (aDNA). The five RISE s...

Over at the Russian Journal of Genetics behind a paywall at this LINK . Emphasis is mine: Abstract: The structure and diversity of mitoch...

The figure below is from the recent Mathieson et al. 2017 preprint; slightly edited to highlight the results of nine Globular Amphora Cultu...

A paper at Infection, Genetics and Evolution looks at the susceptibility to infectious diseases in two late Iron Age groups from Central P...