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Birgit Nickel

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Organism:human· 3 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Organism:chicken / avian· 1 Approach:comparative / phylogenetic analysis· 1 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1

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Svante PääboiD· 3 shared Aida M. AndrésiD· 1 shared Alba Bossoms MesaiD· 1 shared Alexandra BuzhilovaiD· 1 shared Amir FallahshahroudiiD· 1 shared Anatoly P. DereviankoiD· 1 shared Anna Schmidt· 1 shared Anne Fischer· 1 shared

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A Method to Analyze Low-Quality Archaic Human Genomes and its Application to the Teshik-Tash 1 Neandertal

Arev Pelin Sümer, Leonardo Nicola Martin Iasi, Alba Bossoms Mesa, Viviane Slon, Elena Essel, Mateja Hajdinjak, Julia Zorn, Anna Schmidt, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Bence Viola, Rustam Ziganshin, Alexandra Buzhilova, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Svante Pääbo, Benjamin Marco Peter

The paper develops a computational method to analyze low-quality archaic human genomes and applies it to the Teshik-Tash 1 Neandertal, showing genetic similarity to later Western Eurasian Neandertals.

bioRxiv · Aug 18, 2026 · PreprintGenetics

The origin and molecular evolution of the mammalian liver cell architecture

Xuefei Yuan, Leticia Rodríguez-Montes, Bastienne Zaremba, Nils Trost, Céline Schneider, Julia Schmidt, Bianka Berki, David Ibberson, Evgeny V. Leushkin, Birgit Nickel, Miklós Palkovits, Richard W. Truman, Gregory S. Barsh, John J. Lees, Amir Fallahshahroudi, , Henrik Kaessmann

This study investigates the evolutionary origins and dynamics of liver cell architecture across mammals, revealing conserved zonation and rapid evolutionary turnover in zonated genes.

bioRxiv · Oct 14, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Long-term balancing selection in LAD1 maintains a missense trans-species polymorphism in humans, chimpanzees and bonobos

João C. Teixeira, Cesare de Filippo, Antje Weihmann, Juan R. Meneu, Fernando Racimo, Michael Dannemann, Birgit Nickel, Anne Fischer, Michel Halbwax, Claudine Andre, Rebeca Atencia, Matthias Meyer, Genís Parra, Svante Pääbo, Aida M. Andrés

Molecular Biology and Evolution · Feb 19, 2015Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology