Dr. Kerttu Majander

Pla-Díaz, Marta, Akgül, Gülfirde, Molak, Martyna, du Plessis, Louis, Panagiotopoulou, Hanna, Doan, Karolina, Bogdanowicz, Wiesław, Dąbrowski, Paweł, Oziembłowski, Maciej, Kwiatkowska, Barbara, Szczurowski, Jacek, Grzelak, Joanna, Arora, Natasha, Majander, Kerttu, González-Candelas, Fernando, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2025). Insights into Treponema pallidum genomics from modern and ancient genomes using a novel mapping strategy [Journal-article]. BMC Biology, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-02108-4

Nordfors, Ulla, Peltola, Sanni, O’Sullivan, Ronan James, Valtueña, Aida Andrades, Lamnidis, Thiseas C., Majander, Kerttu, Traverso, Luca, Krause, Johannes, Salmela, Elina, & Onkamo, Päivi. (2025). Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland. iScience, 28(8). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113086

Michel, Megan, Skourtanioti, Eirini, Pierini, Federica, Guevara, Evelyn K., Mötsch, Angela, Kocher, Arthur, Barquera, Rodrigo, Bianco, Raffaela A., Carlhoff, Selina, Coppola Bove, Lorenza, Freilich, Suzanne, Giffin, Karen, Hermes, Taylor, Hiß, Alina, Knolle, Florian, Nelson, Elizabeth A., Neumann, Gunnar U., Papac, Luka, Penske, Sandra, et al. (2024). Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria. Nature, 631(8019), 125–133. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07546-2

Wilkin, Shevan, Lanigan, Liam T., Montes, Nuria, Sharma, Mukul, Avanzi, Charlotte, Sejdiu, Donikë, Majander, Kerttu, Pfrengle, Saskia, Chiang, Yun, Kunz, Laura, Dittmann, Antje, Rühli, Frank, Singh, Pushpendra, Coll, Maria Fontanals, Collins, Matthew J., Taurozzi, Alberto J., & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2024). Sequential trypsin and ProAlanase digestions unearth immunological protein biomarkers shrouded by skeletal collagen. iScience, 27(5). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109663

Majander, Kerttu, Pla-Díaz, Marta, du Plessis, Louis, Arora, Natasha, Filippini, Jose, Pezo-Lanfranco, Luis, Eggers, Sabine, González-Candelas, Fernando, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2024). Redefining the treponemal history through pre-Columbian genomes from Brazil. Nature, 627(8002), 182–188. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06965-x

Peltola, S., Majander, K., Makarov, N., Dobrovolskaya, M., Nordqvist, K., Salmela, E., & Onkamo, P. (2023). Genetic admixture and language shift in the medieval Volga-Oka interfluve. 33(1), 174–182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.036

Furtwängler, Anja, Baumann, Chris, Majander, Kerttu, Wilkin, Shevan, Tomoum, Nadja, Rühli, Frank, Jaeggi, Adrian V., Eppenberger, Patrick, Bender, Nicole, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2023). The Mummy Explorer—a self-regulated open-access online teaching tool. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, 11(1), 129–138. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoad009

Scott, A., Reinhold, S., Hermes, T., Kalmykov, A. A., Belinskiy, A., Buzhilova, A., Berezina, N., Kantorovich, A. R., Maslov, V. E., Guliyev, F., Lyonnet, B., Gasimov, P., Jalilov, B., Eminli, J., Iskandarov, E., Hammer, E., Nugent, S. E., Hagan, R., Majander, K., et al. (2022). Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes. 6(6), 813–822. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01701-6

Kocher, Arthur, Papac, Luka, Barquera, Rodrigo, Key Felix, M., Spyrou Maria, A., Hübler, Ron, Rohrlach Adam, B., Aron, Franziska, Stahl, Raphaela, Wissgott, Antje, van Bömmel, Florian, Pfefferkorn, Maria, Mittnik, Alissa, Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa, Neumann Gunnar, U., Rivollat, Maïté, van de Loosdrecht Marieke, S., Majander, Kerttu, Tukhbatova Rezeda, I., et al. (2021). Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution. Science, 374(6564), 182–188. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi5658

Majander, Kerttu, Pfrengle, Saskia, Kocher, Arthur, Neukamm, Judith, du Plessis, Louis, Pla-Díaz, Marta, Arora, Natasha, Akgül, Gülfirde, Salo, Kati, Schats, Rachel, Inskip, Sarah, Oinonen, Markku, Valk, Heiki, Malve, Martin, Kriiska, Aivar, Onkamo, Päivi, González-Candelas, Fernando, Kühnert, Denise, Krause, Johannes, & Schuenemann, Verena J. (2020). Ancient Bacterial Genomes Reveal a High Diversity of Treponema pallidum Strains in Early Modern Europe. Current Biology, 30(19), 3788–3803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.058

Översti, Sanni, Majander, Kerttu, Salmela, Elina, Salo, Kati, Arppe, Laura, Belskiy, Stanislav, Etu-Sihvola, Heli, Laakso, Ville, Mikkola, Esa, Pfrengle, Saskia, Putkonen, Mikko, Taavitsainen, Jussi-Pekka, Vuoristo, Katja, Wessman, Anna, Sajantila, Antti, Oinonen, Markku, Haak, Wolfgang, Schuenemann, Verena J., Krause, Johannes, et al. (2019). Human mitochondrial DNA lineages in Iron-Age Fennoscandia suggest incipient admixture and eastern introduction of farming-related maternal ancestry. Scientific Reports, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51045-8

Lamnidis, T. C., Majander, K., Jeong, C., Salmela, E., Wessman, A., Moiseyev, V., Khartanovich, V., Balanovsky, O., Ongyerth, M., Weihmann, A., Sajantila, A., Kelso, J., Pääbo, S., Onkamo, P., Haak, W., Krause, J., & Schiffels, S. (2018). Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe. 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07483-5

Villa, P. M., Marttinen, P., Gillberg, J., Inkeri Lokki, A., Majander, K., Ordén, M.-R., Taipale, P., Pesonen, A., Räikkönen, K., Hämäläinen, E., Kajantie, E., & Laivuori, H. (2017). Cluster analysis to estimate the risk of preeclampsia in the high-risk Prediction and Prevention of Preeclampsia and Intrauterine Growth Restriction (PREDO) study. 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174399

Bos, Kirsten I, Harkins, Kelly M, Herbig, Alexander, Coscolla, Mireia, Weber, Nico, Comas, Iñaki, Forrest, Stephen A, Bryant, Josephine M, Harris, Simon R, Schuenemann, Verena J, Campbell, Tessa J, Majander, Kerttu, Wilbur, Alicia K, Guichon, Ricardo A, Wolfe Steadman, Dawnie L, Cook, Della Collins, Niemann, Stefan, Behr, Marcel A, Zumarraga, Martin, et al. (2014). Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis [Review of Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis]. Nature, 514, Article 7523. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13591

Majander, K. K., Villa, P. M., Kivinen, K., Kere, J., & Laivuori, H. (2013). A follow-up linkage study of Finnish pre-eclampsia families identifies a new fetal susceptibility locus on chromosome 18. 21(9), 1024–1026. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2013.6

Corander, J., Majander, K. K., Cheng, L., & Merilä, J. (2013). High degree of cryptic population differentiation in the Baltic Sea herring Clupea harengus. 22(11), 2931–2940. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12174

du Plessis, Louis, Akgül, Gülfirde, Pla-Díaz, Marta, Molak, Martyna, González-Candelas, Fernando, Panagiotopoulou, Hanna, Doan, Karolina, Bogdanowicz, Wiesław, Majander, Kerttu, Schuenemann, Verena J., Dąbrowski, Paweł, Oziębłowski, Maciej, Grzelak, Joanna, & Arora, Natasha. (2024). Insights into Treponema pallidum genomics from modern and ancient genomes using a novel mapping strategy [Posted-content]. In BioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.08.526988

Schuenemann, V. J., & Majander, K. (2021). Diversity matters – Syphilis and related diseases in historical Europe [Journal-article]. TheScienceBreaker, 07(04). https://doi.org/10.25250/thescbr.brk594

Onkamo, P., Majander, K., Peltola, S., Salmela, E., & Nordqvist, K. (2019). Ancient human genes of North-Eastern Europe [Journal-article]. TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE Russian Academy of Sciences, 20, 25–34. https://doi.org/10.31600/2310-6557-2019-20-25-34