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Karen Giffin

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5

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265

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2020

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Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History(Current)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

University of Tübingen

University of Helsinki

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Karen Giffin is an author at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History specializing in hepatology, hepatitis b, and epidemiology.

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2020–2024

5

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Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution

Arthur Kocher, Luka Papac, Rodrigo Barquera et al. · Science · 2021 · 120 citations · Full text

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A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15th century Europe

Karen Giffin, Aditya Kumar Lankapalli, Susanna Sabin et al. · Scientific Reports · 2020 · 54 citations · Full text

Geographically dispersed zoonotic tuberculosis in pre-contact South American human populations

Åshild J. Vågene‬, Tanvi P. Honap, Kelly M. Harkins et al. · Nature Communications · 2022 · 48 citations · Full text

Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria

Megan Michel, Eirini Skourtanioti, Federica Pierini et al. · Nature · 2024 · 32 citations · Full text

Ancient genomes reveal a deep history of Treponema pallidum in the Americas

Rodrigo Barquera, Thomas Sitter, Casey L. Kirkpatrick et al. · Nature · 2024 · 11 citations · Full text

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