2010 PÄÄBO, Svante (1955 – ); KRAUSE, Johannes (1980 – )

The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia.

Svante Pääbo and collaborators reconstructed the genome of the Denisova hominins and announced that they were a new species, that they interbred with our species, and that the DNA results suggest that they had dark ha…

GMN 7290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9460

2014 PÄÄBO, Svante (1955 – )

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains.

First complete sequence of a Neanderthal genome. With more than 20 co-authors. In 2022 Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and hu…

GMN 7289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9459

2018 PÄÄBO, Svante (1955 – ); SLON, Viviane; MAFESSONI, Fabrizio; VERNOT, Benjamin; ET AL

The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.

Paleogenomic study of a single bone fragment from a female hominin found in the Denisova Cave in the Altai mountains of Russia provided "direct evidence for genetic mixture between Neanderthals and Denisovans on at le…

GMN 14099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16410

2020 PÄÄBO, Svante (1955 – ); ZEBERG, Hugo

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals.

Expanding on previous findings by a genome wide association study of severe COVID-19, specifically with respiratory failure which had found that a gene cluster residing on chromosome 3 had a significant association wi…

GMN 14098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16409

12963 PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994); ZUCKERKANDL, Émile (1922 – 2013)

Chemical paleogenetics: Molecular "restoration studies' of extinct forms of life.

Coinage of the term "paleogenetics" in what may be the first publication on the possibility of reconstructing extinct life forms through molecular biology. "Attention is attracted to the possibility of reconstructing …

GMN 14368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16700