Selected publications

Publications in reversed chronological order. Full publication list on Google Scholar

2025

  1. xu2025genetic
    The genetic architecture of and evolutionary constraints on the human pelvic form
    Liaoyi Xu, Eucharist Kun, Devansh Pandey, Joyce Y Wang, Marianne F Brasil+, Tarjinder Singh+, and Vagheesh M. Narasimhan+
    Science, 2025
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  2. zeng2025ancient
    Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples
    Tian Chen Zeng, Leonid A. Vyazov, Alexander Kim, Pavel Flegontov, Kendra Sirak, Robert Maier, Iosif Lazaridis, Ali Akbari, Michael Frachetti, Alexey A. Tishkin, Natalia E. Ryabogina, Sergey A. Agapov, Danila S. Agapov, Anatoliy N. Alekseev, Gennady G. Boeskorov, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Viktor M. Dyakonov, Dmitry N. Enshin, Alexey V. Fribus, Yaroslav V. Frolov, Sergey P. Grushin, Alexander A. Khokhlov, Kirill Yu. Kiryushin, Yurii F. Kiryushin, Egor P. Kitov, Pavel Kosintsev, Igor V. Kovtun, Nikolai P. Makarov, Viktor V. Morozov, Egor N. Nikolaev, Marina P. Rykun, Tatyana M. Savenkova, Marina V. Shchelchkova, Vladimir Shirokov, Svetlana N. Skochina, Olga S. Sherstobitova, Sergey M. Slepchenko, Konstantin N. Solodovnikov, Elena N. Solovyova, Aleksandr D. Stepanov, Aleksei A. Timoshchenko, Aleksandr S. Vdovin, Anton V. Vybornov, Elena V. Balanovska, Stanislav Dryomov, Garrett Hellenthal, Kenneth Kidd, Johannes Krause, Elena Starikovskaya, Rem Sukernik, Tatiana Tatarinova, Mark G. Thomas, Maxat Zhabagin, Kim Callan, Olivia Cheronet, Daniel Fernandes, Denise Keating, Francesca Candilio, Lora Iliev, Aisling Kearns, Kadir Toykan Özdoğan, Matthew Mah, Adam Micco, Megan Michel, Iñigo Olalde, Fatma Zalzala, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Ron Pinhasi, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan+ and David Reich+
    Nature, 2025
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2023

  1. kun2023genetic
    The genetic architecture and evolution of the human skeletal form
    Eucharist Kun, Emily M Javan, Olivia Smith, Faris Gulamali, Javier Fuente, Brianna I Flynn, Kushal Vajrala, Zoe Trutner, Prakash Jayakumar, Elliot M Tucker-Drob, Mashaal Sohail, Tarjinder Singh+ and Vagheesh M. Narasimhan+
    Science, 2023
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2019

  1. narasimhan2019formation
    The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia
    Vagheesh M. Narasimhan*, Nick Patterson*, Priya Moorjani, Nadin Rohland, Rebecca Bernardos, Swapan Mallick, Iosif Lazaridis, Nathan Nakatsuka, Iñigo Olalde, Mark Lipson, Alexander M. Kim, Luca M. Olivieri, Alfredo Coppa, Massimo Vidale, James Mallory, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Egor Kitov, Janet Monge, Nicole Adamski, Neel Alex, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Francesca Candilio, Kimberly Callan, Olivia Cheronet, Brendan J. Culleton, Matthew Ferry, Daniel Fernandes, Suzanne Freilich, Beatriz Gamarra, Daniel Gaudio, Mateja Hajdinjak, Éadaoin Harney, Thomas K. Harper, Denise Keating, Ann Marie Lawson, Matthew Mah, Kirsten Mandl, Megan Michel, Mario Novak, Jonas Oppenheimer, Niraj Rai, Kendra Sirak, Viviane Slon, Kristin Stewardson, Fatma Zalzala, Zhao Zhang, Gaziz Akhatov, Anatoly N. Bagashev, Alessandra Bagnera, Bauryzhan Baitanayev, Julio Bendezu-Sarmiento, Arman A. Bissembayev, Gian Luca Bonora, Temirlan T. Chargynov, Tatiana Chikisheva, Petr K. Dashkovskiy, Anatoly Derevianko, Miroslav Dobeš, Katerina Douka, Nadezhda Dubova, Meiram N. Duisengali, Dmitry Enshin, Andrey Epimakhov, Alexey V. Fribus, Dorian Fuller, Alexander Goryachev, Andrey Gromov, Sergey P. Grushin, Bryan Hanks, Margaret Judd, Erlan Kazizov, Aleksander Khokhlov, Aleksander P. Krygin, Elena Kupriyanova, Pavel Kuznetsov, Donata Luiselli, Farhod Maksudov, Aslan M. Mamedov, Talgat B. Mamirov, Christopher Meiklejohn, Deborah C. Merrett, Roberto Micheli, Oleg Mochalov, Samariddin Mustafokulov, Ayushi Nayak, Davide Pettener, Richard Potts, Dmitry Razhev, Marina Rykun, Stefania Sarno, Tatyana M. Savenkova, Kulyan Sikhymbaeva, Sergey M. Slepchenko, Oroz A. Soltobaev, Nadezhda Stepanova, Svetlana Svyatko, Kubatbek Tabaldiev, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Alexey A. Tishkin, Vitaly V. Tkachev, Sergey Vasilyev, Petr Velemínský, Dmitriy Voyakin, Antonina Yermolayeva, Muhammad Zahir, Valery S. Zubkov, Alisa Zubova, Vasant S. Shinde, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Matthias Meyer, David Anthony, Nicole Boivin, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Douglas J. Kennett, Michael Frachetti, Ron Pinhasi, and David Reich
    Science, 2019
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  2. shinde2019harappan
    An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers
    Vasant Shinde*, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan*, Nadin Rohland, Swapan Mallick, Matthew Mah, Mark Lipson, Nathan Nakatsuka, Nicole Adamski, Nasreen Broomandkoshbacht, Matthew Ferry, Ann Marie Lawson, Megan Michel, Jonas Oppenheimer, Kristin Stewardson, Nilesh Jadhav, Yong Jun Kim, Malvika Chaterjee, Avradeep Munshi, Amrithavalli Panyam, Pranjali Waghmare, Yogesh Yadav, Himani Patel, Amit Kaushik, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Matthias Meyer, Nick Patterson, Niraj Rai, and David Reich
    Cell, 2019
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2018

  1. narasimhan2019formation
    Reconstructing the genetic history of late Neanderthals
    Mateja Hajdinjak, Qiaomei Fu, Alexander Hübner, Martin Petr, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote, Pontus Skoglund, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan, Hélène Rougier, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Patrick Semal, Marie Soressi, Sahra Talamo, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Ivan Gušić, Željko Kućan, Pavao Rudan, Liubov V. Golovanova, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Cosimo Posth, Johannes Krause, Petra Korlević, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Montgomery Slatkin, Nick Patterson, David Reich, Kay Prüfer, Matthias Meyer, Svante Pääbo & Janet Kelso
    Nature, 2018
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2016

  1. narasimhan2019formation
    Health and population effects of rare gene knockouts in adult humans with related parents
    Vagheesh M. Narasimhan, Karen A Hunt, Dan Mason, Christopher L Baker, Konrad J Karczewski, Michael R Barnes, Anthony H Barnett, Chris Bates, Srikanth Bellary, Nicholas A Bockett, Kristina Giorda, Christopher J Griffiths, Harry Hemingway, Zhilong Jia, M Ann Kelly, Hajrah A Khawaja, Monkol Lek, Shane McCarthy, Rosie McEachan, Anne O'Donnell-Luria, Kenneth Paigen, Constantinos A Parisinos, Eamonn Sheridan, Laura Southgate, Louise Tee, Mark Thomas, Yali Xue, Michael Schnall-Levin, Petko M Petkov, Chris Tyler-Smith, Eamonn R Maher, Richard C Trembath, Daniel G MacArthur, John Wright, Richard Durbin and David A van Heel
    Science, 2016
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2014

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    Mountain gorilla genomes reveal the impact of long-term population decline and inbreeding
    Yali Xue*, Javier Prado-Martinez*, Peter H Sudmant*, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan*, Qasim Ayub, Michal Szpak, Peter Frandsen, Yuan Chen, Bryndis Yngvadottir, David N Cooper, Marc De Manuel, Jessica Hernandez-Rodriguez, Irene Lobon, Hans R Siegismund, Luca Pagani, Michael A Quail, Christina Hvilsom, Antoine Mudakikwa, Evan E Eichler, Michael R Cranfield, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Chris Tyler-Smith, Aylwyn Scally
    Science, 2014
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