Polishgenes Blog

A new dataset has appeared online from a yet to be published paper titled Cosmopolitanism in the depths of Barbaricum evidenced by archaeoge...

A paper dealing with the origin of Slavic speakers, titled Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs , was just pu...

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...

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

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

Harvard's Human Origins dataset is being updated with 238 new samples, including 23 from Poland (15 from Poznan in western Poland and 8 ...