Publications

Elise A Lucotte, Valdís Björt Guðmundsdóttir, Jacob M Jensen, Laurits Skov, Moisès Coll Macià, Kristian Almstrup, Mikkel H Schierup, Agnar Helgason, Kari Stefansson. (2023), Characterizing the evolution and phenotypic impact of ampliconic Y chromosome regions. Nature Communications 14, 3990.

Laurits Skov*, Moisès Coll Macià*, Elise Lucotte, Maria Izabel Alves Cavassim, David Castellano, MH Schierup, Kasper Munch. (2023), Extraordinary selection on the human X chromosome associated with archaic admixtur. Cell Genomics 3.

Laurits Skov, Stéphane Peyrégne, Divyaratan Popli, Leonardo NM Iasi, Thibaut Devièse, Viviane Slon, Elena I Zavala, Mateja Hajdinjak, Arev P Sümer, Steffi Grote, Alba Bossoms Mesa, David López Herráez, Birgit Nickel, Sarah Nagel, Julia Richter, Elena Essel, Marie Gansauge, Anna Schmidt, Petra Korlević, Daniel Comeskey, Anatoly P Derevianko, Aliona Kharevich, Sergey V Markin, Sahra Talamo, Katerina Douka, Maciej T Krajcarz, Richard G Roberts, Thomas Higham, Bence Viola, Andrey I Krivoshapkin, Kseniya A Kolobova, Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer, Svante Pääbo, Benjamin M Peter. (2022), Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals. Nature 610, 519-525.

Moisès Coll Macià*, Laurits Skov*, Benjamin Marco Peter, Mikkel Heide Schierup. (2021), Different historical generation intervals in human populations inferred from Neanderthal fragment lengths and mutation signatures. Nature communications 1, 1-11.

Mateja Hajdinjak, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Laurits Skov, Benjamin Vernot, Alexander Hübner, Qiaomei Fu, Elena Essel, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Julia Richter, Oana Teodora Moldovan, Silviu Constantin, Elena Endarova, Nikolay Zahariev, Rosen Spasov, Frido Welker, Geoff M Smith, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Lindsey Paskulin, Helen Fewlass, Sahra Talamo, Zeljko Rezek, Svoboda Sirakova, Nikolay Sirakov, Shannon P McPherron, Tsenka Tsanova, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Benjamin M Peter, Matthias Meyer, Pontus Skoglund, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo. (2021), Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry. Nature 592, 253-257.

Selina Carlhoff, Akin Duli, Kathrin Nägele, Muhammad Nur, Laurits Skov, Iwan Sumantri, Adhi Agus Oktaviana, Budianto Hakim, Basran Burhan, Fardi Ali Syahdar, David P McGahan, David Bulbeck, Yinika L Perston, Kim Newman, Andi Muhammad Saiful, Marlon Ririmasse, Stephen Chia, Dwia Aries Tina Pulubuhu, Choongwon Jeong, Benjamin M Peter, Kay Prüfer, Adam Powell, Johannes Krause, Cosimo Posth, Adam Brumm. (2021), Genome of a middle Holocene hunter-gatherer from Wallacea. Nature 596, 543-547.

Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote, Cesare de Filippo, Viviane Slon, Kseniya A Kolobova, Bence Viola, Sergey V Markin, Manjusha Chintalapati, Stephane Peyrégne, Laurits Skov, Pontus Skoglund, Andrey I Krivoshapkin, Anatoly P Derevianko, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin Peter, Kay Prüfer, Svante Pääbo. (2020), A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 15132-15136.

Diyendo Massilani, Laurits Skov, Mateja Hajdinjak, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Damdinsuren Tseveendorj, Seonbok Yi, Jungeun Lee, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Thibaut Devièse, Tom Higham, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M Peter, Svante Pääbo. (2020), Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians. Science 370, 579-583.

Laurits Skov*, Moisès Coll Macià*, Garðar Sveinbjörnsson, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Elise A Lucotte, Margret S Einarsdóttir, Hakon Jonsson, Bjarni Halldorsson, Daniel F Gudbjartsson, Agnar Helgason, Mikkel Heide Schierup, Kari Stefansson. (2020), The nature of Neanderthal introgression revealed by 27,566 Icelandic genomes. Nature 582, 78-83.

Laurits Skov, Ruoyun Hui, Vladimir Shchur, Asger Hobolth, Aylwyn Scally, Mikkel Heide Schierup, Richard Durbin. (2018), Detecting archaic introgression using an unadmixed outgroup. PLOS Genetics 9, e1007641.

Elise A Lucotte, Laurits Skov, Jacob Malte Jensen, Moisès Coll Macià, Kasper Munch, Mikkel H Schierup. (2018), Dynamic copy number evolution of X-and Y-linked ampliconic genes in human populations. Genetics 3, 907-920.

Molly Schumer, Chenling Xu, Daniel L Powell, Arun Durvasula, Laurits Skov, Chris Holland, John C Blazier, Sriram Sankararaman, Peter Andolfatto, Gil G Rosenthal, Molly Przeworski. (2018), Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes. Science 350, 656-660.

Laurits Skov, PhD Thesis: Methods for analyzing genetic variation in modern and archaic humans. 

Laurits Skov, Danish Pan Genome Consortium, Mikkel Heide Schierup. (2017), Analysis of 62 hybrid assembled human Y chromosomes exposes rapid structural changes and high rates of gene conversion. PLOS Genetics 8, e1006834.

Lasse Maretty*, Jacob Malte Jensen*, Bent Petersen*, Jonas Andreas Sibbesen*, Siyang Liu*, Palle Villesen*, Laurits Skov*, Kirstine Belling, Christian Theil Have, Jose MG Izarzugaza, Marie Grosjean, Jette Bork-Jensen, Jakob Grove, Thomas D Als, Shujia Huang, Yuqi Chang, Ruiqi Xu, Weijian Ye, Junhua Rao, Xiaosen Guo, Jihua Sun, Hongzhi Cao, Chen Ye, Johan van Beusekom, Thomas Espeseth, Esben Flindt, Rune M Friborg, Anders E Halager, Stephanie Le Hellard, Christina M Hultman, Francesco Lescai, Shengting Li, Ole Lund, Peter Løngren, Thomas Mailund, Maria Luisa Matey-Hernandez, Ole Mors, Christian NS Pedersen, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, Patrick Sullivan, Ali Syed, David Westergaard, Rachita Yadav, Ning Li, Xun Xu, Torben Hansen, Anders Krogh, Lars Bolund, Thorkild IA Sørensen, Oluf Pedersen, Ramneek Gupta, Simon Rasmussen, Søren Besenbacher, Anders D Børglum, Jun Wang, Hans Eiberg, Karsten Kristiansen, Søren Brunak, Mikkel Heide Schierup. (2017), Sequencing and de novo assembly of 150 genomes from Denmark as a population reference. Nature, 548, 87-91.

Kay Prüfer, Cesare De Filippo, Steffi Grote, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Petra Korlević, Mateja Hajdinjak, Benjamin Vernot, Laurits Skov, Pinghsun Hsieh, Stéphane Peyrégne, David Reher, Charlotte Hopfe, Sarah Nagel, Tomislav Maricic, Qiaomei Fu, Christoph Theunert, Rebekah Rogers, Pontus Skoglund, Manjusha Chintalapati, Michael Dannemann, Bradley J Nelson, Felix M Key, Pavao Rudan, Željko Kućan, Ivan Gušić, Liubov V Golovanova, Vladimir B Doronichev, Nick Patterson, David Reich, Evan E Eichler, Montgomery Slatkin, Mikkel H Schierup, Aida M Andres, Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer, Svante Pääbo. (2017), A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia. Science 358, 655-658.

Jacob M Jensen, Lasse Maretty, Bent Petersen, Jonas Andreas Sibbesen, Siyang Liu, Laurits Skov, Kirstine Belling, Christian Theil Have, Jose MG Izarzugaza, Marie Grosjean, Jette Bork-Jensen, Jakob Grove, Thomas D Als, Shujia Huang, Yuqi Chang, Ruiqi Xu, Weijian Ye, Junhua Rao, Xiaosen Guo, Jihua Sun, Hongzhi Cao, Chen Ye, Johan v Beusekom, Thomas Espeseth, Esben Flindt, Anders E Halager, Stephanie Le Hellard, Christina M Hultman, Francesco Lescai, Shengting Li, Ole Lund, Peter Løngren, Maria Luisa Matey-Hernandez, Ole Mors, Christian NS Pedersen, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, Patrick Sullivan, Ali Syed, David Westergaard, Rachita Yadav, Ning Li, Xun Xu, Torben Hansen, Anders Krogh, Lars Bolund, Thorkild IA Sørensen, Oluf Pedersen, Ramneek Gupta, Simon Rasmussen, Anders D Børglum, Jun Wang, Hans Eiberg, Karsten Kristiansen, Søren Brunak, Mikkel Heide Schierup, Danish Pan-Genome Consortium. (2017), Assembly and analysis of 100 full MHC haplotypes from the Danish population. Genome research 9, 1597-1607.

Thomas Bataillon, Jinjie Duan, Christina Hvilsom, Xin Jin, Yingrui Li, Laurits Skov, Sylvain Glemin, Kasper Munch, Tao Jiang, Yu Qian, Asger Hobolth, Jun Wang, Thomas Mailund, Hans R Siegismund, Mikkel H Schierup. (2015), Inference of Purifying and Positive Selection in Three Subspecies of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) from Exome Sequencing. Genome biology and evolution 4, 1122-1132.