Toomas Kivisild
{{short description|Estonian geneticist}}
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Toomas Kivisild (born 11 August 1969, in Tapa, Estonia) is an Estonian population geneticist. He graduated as a biologist and received his PhD in Genetics, from University of Tartu, Estonia, in 2000. Since then he has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Medicine, at Stanford University (2002-3), Estonian Biocentre (since 2003), as the Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu (2005-6), and as a Lecturer and Reader in Human Evolutionary Genetics in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge (2006-2018). From 2018 he is a professor in the Department of Human Genetics at KU Leuven and a senior researcher at the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu.{{Cite web|url=https://www.science.org/content/author/toomas-kivisild|title=Toomas Kivisild|date=2014-10-31|website=Science {{!}} AAAS|language=en|access-date=2018-01-24}}{{Cite web|url=http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/people.html|title=People at the Molecular Anthropology Group, Tartu University and Estonian Biocentre|website=evolutsioon.ut.ee|access-date=2018-01-24}}
Kivisild has focused in his research on questions relating global genetic population structure with evolutionary processes such as selection, drift, migrations and admixture.{{Cite web|url=http://mega.bioanth.cam.ac.uk/|title=Toomas Kivisild|website=University of Cambridge|access-date=2018-01-24}} He coauthored the second edition of the textbook Human Evolutionary Genetics (2013).{{cite journal | last = Ray | first = Sreeurpa | date = 2014-12-12 | title = Human Evolutionary Genetics | journal=The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine | volume = 87 | issue = 4 | pages = 603 | pmc = 4257046 }}{{Cite journal|last=Bigham|first=Abigail W.|date=2014-07-01|title=Human Evolutionary Genetics (2nd edition). By Mark Jobling, Edward Hollox, Matthew Hurles, Toomas Kivisild, and Chris Tyler-Smith. 650 pp. New York: PB - Garland Science . 2013. $130.00 (paper).|journal=American Journal of Human Biology|language=en|volume=26|issue=4|pages=574–575|doi=10.1002/ajhb.22564|issn=1520-6300|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/107568/1/ajhb22564.pdf|hdl=2027.42/107568|hdl-access=free}}
Selected publications
- 1999a. "Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages" [https://web.archive.org/web/20051030014804/http://jorde-lab.genetics.utah.edu/elibrary/Kivisild_1999.pdf]
- 1999b. "The Place of the Indian mtDNA Variants in the Global Network of Maternal Lineages and the Peopling of the Old World" [http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Kivisild1999b.pdf]
- 2000a. "An Indian Ancestry: a Key for Understanding Human Diversity in Europe and Beyond" [http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Kivisild2000.pdf]
- 2000b. "The origins of southern and western Eurasian populations: an mtDNA study" [http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Kivisild2000PhD.pdf]
- 2003a. "The Genetics of Language and Farming Spread in India" [http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Kivisild2003a.pdf]
- 2003b. "The Genetic Heritage of the Earliest Settlers Persists Both in Indian Tribal and Caste Populations" [https://web.archive.org/web/20060219054854/http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications/AJHG_2003_v72_p313-332.pdf], [http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Kivisild2003b.pdf]
- The emerging limbs and twigs of the East Asian mtDNA tree. [http://mbe.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/19/10/1737.pdf]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} [http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/10/1737]
- {{cite journal | pmid = 15457403 | doi=10.1086/425161 | volume=75 | title=Ethiopian mitochondrial DNA heritage: tracking gene flow across and around the gate of tears | pmc=1182106 | date=November 2004 | journal=Am. J. Hum. Genet. | pages=752–70 | last1 = Kivisild | first1 = T | last2 = Reidla | first2 = M | last3 = Metspalu | first3 = E | issue=5 | display-authors = etal}}
- {{cite journal |author1=Mait, Metspalu |author2=Kivisild, Toomas | title=Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans |journal=BMC Genetics |volume=5 |pages=26 | year=2004 |display-authors=etal|doi=10.1186/1471-2156-5-26 |pmid=15339343 |pmc=516768 |doi-access=free }} [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC516768/]
- 2005a. Different population histories of the Mundari- and Mon-Khmer-speaking Austro-Asiatic tribes inferred from the mtDNA 9-bp deletion/insertion polymorphism in Indian populations [http://www.springerlink.com/media/p3d6f5hcbm0rvnb83r02/contributions/q/7/4/0/q74011402h38w41r.pdf]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
- 2005b. Reconstructing the Origin of Andaman Islanders [https://web.archive.org/web/20060625144038/http://171.66.122.53/cgi/reprint/308/5724/996.pdf]
- 2005c. Tracing Modern Human Origins [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/309/5743/1995b.pdf]
- 2006a. Response to Comment on‘‘Reconstructing the Origin of Andaman Islanders’’ [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/311/5760/470b.pdf]
- 2006b. {{cite journal |author1=Sahoo, S. |author2=Kivisild, T | title=A prehistory of Indian Y chromosomes: Evaluating demic diffusion scenarios |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | year=2006 |volume=103 |issue=4 |pages=843–8 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0507714103 |pmid=16415161 |pmc=1347984 |bibcode=2006PNAS..103..843S |display-authors=etal|doi-access=free }}
- 2006c. The role of selection in the evolution of human mitochondrial genomes. [http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/full/172/1/373]
- 2007. Peopling of South Asia: investigating the caste-tribe continuum in India [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/114030416/PDFSTART]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
- 2007. [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0702928104v1 Revealing the prehistoric settlement of Australia by Y chromosome and mtDNA analysis]
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