Publications

Bornschein, U., Zeberg, H., Enard, W., Hevers, W., & Pääbo, S. (2023). Functional dissection of two amino acid substitutions unique to the human FOXP2 protein. Scientific Reports, 13(1): 3747.

Häggström, S., Ingelman-Sundberg, M., Pääbo, S., & Zeberg, H. (2022). The clinically relevant CYP2C8*3 and CYP2C9*2 haplotype is inherited from Neandertals. The Pharmacogenomics Journal, 22, 247-249.

Mora-Bermúdez, F., Kanis, P., Macak, D., Peters, J., Naumann, R., Xing, L., Sarov, M., Winkler, S., Oegema, C. E., Haffner, C., Wimberger, P., Riesenberg, S., Maricic, T., Huttner, W. B., & Pääbo, S. (2022). Longer metaphase and fewer chromosome segregation errors in modern human than Neanderthal brain development. Science Advances, 8: eabn7702.

Coppo, L., Mishra, P., Siefert, N., Holmgren, A., Pääbo, S., & Zeberg, H. (2022). A substitution in the glutathione reductase lowers electron leakage and inflammation in modern humans. Science Advances, 8(1): eabm1148.

Stepanova, V., Moczulska, K., Vacano, G. N., Kurochkin, I., Ju, X.-C., Riesenberg, S., Macak, D., Maricic, T., Dombrowski, L., Schörnig, M., Anastassiadis, K., Baker, O., Naumann, R., Khrameeva, E., Vanushkina, A., Stekolschikova, E., Egorova, A., Nkatchev, A., Mazzarino, R., Duval, N., Zubkov, D., Giavalisco, P., Wilkinson, T. G., Patterson, D., Khaitovich, P., & Pääbo, S. (2021). Reduced purine biosynthesis in humans after their divergence from Neandertals. eLife, 10: e58741.

Zeberg, H., & Pääbo, S. (2021). A genomic region associated with protection against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(9): e2026309118.

Bokelmann, L., Nickel, O., Maricic, T., Pääbo, S., Meyer, M., Borte, S., & Riesenberg, S. (2021). Point-of-care bulk testing for SARS-CoV-2 by combining hybridization capture with improved colorimetric LAMP. Nature Communications, 12(1): 1467.

H. Zeberg & S. Pääbo (2020). The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals (advance online). Nature

H. Zeberg, M. Dannemann, K. Sahlholm, K. Tsuo, T. Maricic, V. Wiebe, W. Hevers, H. P.C. Robinson, J. Kelso, & S. Pääbo (2020). A Neanderthal sodium channel increases pain sensitivity in present-day humans. Current Biology, 30(17), 3465-3469.

H. Zeberg, J. Kelso & S. Pääbo (2020). The Neandertal progesterone receptor. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(9): msaa119, pp. 2655-2660