Browsing Genetics by UP Author "Rifkin, Riaan F."

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Ancient oncogenesis, infection and human evolution

Rifkin, Riaan F.; Potgieter, Marnie; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Cowan, Don A. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017-12)

The recent discovery that malignant neoplastic lesions date back nearly 2 million years ago not only highlights the antiquity of cancer in the human lineage, but also provides remarkable insight into ancestral hominin ...
The healthy human blood microbiome : fact or fiction?

Castillo, Diego J.; Rifkin, Riaan F.; Cowan, Don A.; Potgieter, Marnie (Frontiers Media, 2019-05-08)

The blood that flows perpetually through our veins and arteries performs numerous functions essential to our survival. Besides distributing oxygen, this vast circulatory system facilitates nutrient transport, deters ...
Human biology and ancient DNA: exploring disease, domestication and movement

Houldcroft, Charlotte J.; Rifkin, Riaan F.; Underdown, Simon J. (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

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Migrating microbes : what pathogens can tell us about population movements and human evolution

Houldcroft, C.J.; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Rifkin, Riaan F.; Underdown, S.J. (Taylor and Francis, 2017-05)

BACKGROUND: The biology of human migration can be observed from the co-evolutionary relationship with infectious diseases. While many pathogens are brief, unpleasant visitors to human bodies, others have the ability to ...
Multi-proxy analyses of a mid-15th century middle iron age Bantu-speaker palaeo-faecal specimen elucidates the configuration of the ‘ancestral’ sub-Saharan African intestinal microbiome

Rifkin, Riaan F.; Vikram, Surendra; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Rey-Iglesia, Alba; Brand, Tina B.; Porraz, Guillaume; Val, Aurore; Hall, Grant; Woodborne, Stephan M.; Le Bailly, Matthieu; Potgieter, Marnie; Underdown, Simon J.; Koopman, Jessica E.; Cowan, Don A.; Van de Peer, Yves; Willerslev, Eske; Hansen, Anders J. (BioMed Central, 2020-05-06)

BACKGROUND : The archaeological incidence of ancient human faecal material provides a rare opportunity to explore the taxonomic composition and metabolic capacity of the ancestral human intestinal microbiome (IM). Here, ...
The role of aDNA in understanding the coevolutionary patterns of human sexually transmitted infections

Pimenoff, Ville N.; Houldcroft, Charlotte J.; Rifkin, Riaan F.; Underdown, Simon (MDPI, 2018-07)

Analysis of pathogen genome data sequenced from clinical and historical samples has made it possible to perform phylogenetic analyses of sexually transmitted infections on a global scale, and to estimate the diversity, ...

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