Publication
Preprints
Out-of-Anatolia: cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
Dilek Koptekin, Ayça Aydoğan, Cansu Karamurat, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, D. Deniz Kazancı, Ayça Küçükakdağ Doğu, Damla Kaptan, Hasan Can Gemici, Eren Yüncü, Gülsün Umurtak, Refik Duru, Erkan Fidan, Özlem Çevik, Burçin Erdoğu, Taner Korkut, Christopher J. Knüsel, Scott Haddow, Clark Spencer Larsen, Rana Özbal, Fokke Gerritsen, Eylem Özdoğan, Uygar Ozan Usanmaz, Yasin Cemre Derici, Mine Uçmazoğlu, Flora Jay, Mehmet Özdoğan, Anders Götherström, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas*, Çiğdem Atakuman*, Füsun Özer*, Mehmet Somel*
bioRvix (2024)
Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Eren Yüncü*, Ayça Küçükakdağ Doğu*, Damla Kaptan*, Muhammed Sıddık Kılıç*, Camilla Mazzucato, Merve N. Güler, Elifnaz Eker, Büşra Katırcıoğlu, Maciej Chyleński, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Arda Sevkar, Gözde Atağ, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Fatma Küçük Baloğlu, Defne Bozkurt, Jessica Pearson, Marco Milella, Cansu Karamurat, Şevval Aktürk, Ekin Sağlıcan, Nisan Yıldız, Dilek Koptekin, Sevgi Yorulmaz, Duygu Deniz Kazancı, Ayça Aydoğan, Nergis Bilge Karabulut, Kanat Gürün, Eline M.J. Schotsmans, Jana Anvari, Eva Rosenstock, Jennifer Byrnes, Peter F. Biehl, David Orton, Vendela Kempe Lagerholm, Hasan Can Gemici, Milena Vasic22, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Çiğdem Atakuman, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Emrah Kırdök, Marin Pilloud, Clark Spencer Larsen, Scott D. Haddow#, Anders Götherström#, Christopher J. Knüsel#, Füsun Özer#, Ian Hodder7,28#, Mehmet Somel#
bioRvix (2024)
2025
Dilek Koptekin*, Etka Yapar*, Kıvılcım Başak Vural*, Ekin Sağlıcan, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Can Alkan, Mehmet Somel
Genome Biology 26,6 (2025)
2024
Sevim Seda Çokoğlu, Dilek Koptekin, Fatma Rabia Fidan, Mehmet Somel
Evolutionary Applications (2024), 17:7; e13743
The first complete genome of the extinct European wild ass (Equus hemionus hydruntinus)
Mustafa Özkan, Kanat Gürün, Eren Yüncü, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Gözde Atağ, Ali Akbaba, Fatma Rabia Fidan, Ekin Sağlıcan, N Ezgi Altınışık, Dilek Koptekin, Kamilla Pawłowska, Ian Hodder, Sarah E Adcock, Benjamin S Arbuckle, Sharon R Steadman, Gregory McMahon, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Cemal Can Bilgin, İnci Togan, Eva-Maria Geigl, Anders Götherström, Thierry Grange, Füsun Özer, Mehmet Somel
Molecular Ecology (2024), e17440
Benchmarking kinship estimation tools for ancient genomes using pedigree simulations
Şevval Aktürk*, Igor Mapelli*, Merve Nur Güler*, Kanat Gürün, Büşra Katırcıoğlu, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Ekin Sağlıcan, Mehmet Çetin, Reyhan Yaka, Elif Sürer, Gözde Atağ, Sevim Seda Çokoğlu, Arda Sevkar, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Dilek Koptekin, Mehmet Somel
Molecular Ecology Resources (2024), e13960
2023
Alexander Gavashelishvili, Merab Chukhua, Kakhi Sakhltkhutsishvili, Dilek Koptekin, Mehmet Somel
Scientific Report (2023), 13, 21133
MTaxi: A comparative tool for taxon identification of ultra low coverage ancient genomes (v3, peer review: 2 approved)
Gözde Atağ, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Damla Kaptan, Mustafa Özkan, Dilek Koptekin, Ekin Sağlıcan, Sevcan Doğramacı, Mevlüt Köz, Ardan Yılmaz, Arda Söylev, İnci Togan, Mehmet Somel, Füsun Özer
Open Res Europe (2023), 2:100
Dilek Koptekin, Eren Yüncü, Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela* , N. Ezgi Altınışık*, Nikolaos Psonis*, Natalia Kashuba, Sevgi Yorulmaz, Robert George, Duygu Deniz Kazancı, Damla Kaptan, Kanat Gürün, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Hasan Can Gemici, Despoina Vassou, Evangelia Daskalaki, Cansu Karamurat, Vendela K. Lagerholm, Ömür Dilek Erdal, Emrah Kırdök, Aurelio Marangoni, Andreas Schachner, Handan Üstündağ, Ramaz Shengelia, Liana Bitadze, Mikheil Elashvili, Eleni Stravopodi, Mihriban Özbaşaran, Güneş Duru, Argyro Nafplioti, C. Brian Rose, Tuğba Gencer, Gareth Darbyshire, Alexander Gavashelishvili, Konstantine Pitskhelauri, Özlem Çevik, Osman Vuruşkan, Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika, Ali Metin Büyükkarakaya, Umay Oğuzhanoğlu, Sevinç Günel, Eugenia Tabakaki, Akper Aliev, Anar Ibrahimov, Vaqif Shadlinski, Adamantios Sampson, Gülşah Merve Kılınç, Çiğdem Atakuman, Alexandros Stamatakis, Nikos Poulakakis, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Pavlos Pavlidis, Jan Storå, Füsun Özer+, Anders Götherström+, Mehmet Somel+
Current Biology (2023), 33(1)
2022
CONGA: Copy number variation genotyping in ancient genomes and low-coverage sequencing data
Arda Söylev, Sevim Seda Çokoglu, Dilek Koptekin, Can Alkan, Mehmet Somel
PLoS Computational Biology (2022), 18(12):e1010788
N Ezgi Altınışık*, Duygu Deniz Kazancı*, Ayça Aydoğan, Hasan Can Gemici, Ömür Dilek Erdal, Savaş Sarıaltun, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Dilek Koptekin, Kanat Gürün, Ekin Sağlıcan, Daniel Fernandes, Gökhan Çakan, Meliha Melis Koruyucu, Vendela Kempe Lagerholm, Cansu Karamurat, Mustafa Özkan, Gülşah Merve Kılınç, Arda Sevkar, Elif Sürer, Anders Götherström, Çiğdem Atakuman, Yılmaz Selim Erdal+, Füsun Özer+, Aslı Erim Özdoğan+, Mehmet Somel+
Science Advances (2022), 8(44), eabo3609
2021
Erinç Yurtman*, Onur Özer*, Eren Yüncü*, Nihan Dilşad Dağtaş, Dilek Koptekin, Yasin Gökhan Çakan, Mustafa Özkan, Ali Akbaba, Damla Kaptan, Gözde Atağ, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Can Yümni Gündem, Louise Martin, Gülşah Merve Kılınç, Ayshin Ghalichi, Sinan Can Açan, Reyhan Yaka, Ekin Sağlıcan, Vendela Kempe Lagerholm, Maja Krzewińska, Torsten Günther, Pedro Morell Miranda, Evangelia Pişkin, Müge Şevketoğlu, C. Can Bilgin, Çiğdem Atakuman, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Elif Sürer, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Johannes A. Lenstra, Sevgi Yorulmaz, Mohammad Foad Abazari, Javad Hoseinzadeh, Douglas Baird, Erhan Bıçakçı, Özlem Çevik, Fokke Gerritsen, Rana Özbal, Anders Götherström+, Mehmet Somel+, İnci Togan+, Füsun Özer+
Communications Biology (2021), 4:1279
Human inbreeding has decreased in time through the Holocene
Francisco C. Ceballos*, Kanat Gürün*, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Hasan Can Gemici, Cansu Karamurat, Dilek Koptekin, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Igor Mapelli, Ekin Sağlıcan, Elif Sürer, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Anders Götherström, Füsun Özer, Çiğdem Atakuman, Mehmet Somel
Current Biology (2021),31(17):3925-3934
Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes
Reyhan Yaka, Igor Mapelli*, Damla Kaptan*, Ayça Doğu*, Maciej Chyleński*, Ömür Dilek Erdal, Dilek Koptekin, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Alex Bayliss, Camilla Mazzucato, Evrim Fer, Sevim Seda Çokoğlu, Vendela Kempe Lagerholm, Maja Krzewińska, Cansu Karamurat, Hasan Can Gemici, Arda Sevkar, Nihan Dilşad Dağtaş, Gülşah Merve Kılınç, Donovan Adams, Arielle R. Munters, Ekin Sağlıcan, Marco Milella, Eline M.J. Schotsmans, Erinç Yurtman, Mehmet Çetin, Sevgi Yorulmaz, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Ayshin Ghalichi, Anna Juras, C. Can Bilgin, Torsten Günther, Jan Storå, Mattias Jakobsson, Maurice de Kleijn, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Andrew Fairbairn, Jessica Pearson, İnci Togan, Nurcan Kayacan, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Clark Spencer Larsen, Ian Hodder, Çiğdem Atakuman+, Marin Pilloud+, Elif Sürer+, Fokke Gerritsen+, Rana Özbal+, Douglas Baird+, Yılmaz Selim Erdal+, Güneş Duru+, Mihriban Özbaşaran+, Scott D. Haddow+, Christopher J. Knüsel+, Anders Götherström+, Füsun Özer+, Mehmet Somel+
Current Biology (2021), 31(11):2455-2468
Human population dynamics and Yersinia pestis in ancient northeast Asia
Gülşah Merve Kılınç*, Natalija Kashuba*, Dilek Koptekin, Nora Bergfeldt, Handan Melike Dönertaş, Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela, Dmitrij Shergin, Grigorij Ivanov, Dmitrii Kichigin, Kjunnej Pestereva, Denis Volkov, Pavel Mandryka, Artur Kharinskii, Alexey Tishkin, Evgenij Ineshin, Evgeniy Kovychev, Aleksandr Stepanov, Love Dalén, Torsten Günther, Emrah Kırdök, Mattias Jakobsson, Mehmet Somel, Maja Krzewińska, Jan Storå, Anders Götherström
Science Advances (2021), 7(2), eabc4587
2020
Ancient genomics in Neolithic central Anatolia and Çatalhöyük
Reyhan Yaka, Ayça Doğu, Damla Kaptan, Nihan Dilşad Dağtaş, Maciej Chyleński, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Igor Mapelli, Dilek Koptekin, Cansu Karamurat, Hasan Can Gemici, Sevgi Yorulmaz, Vendela Kempe Lagerholm, Evrim Fer, Ulaş Işıldak, Ayshin Ghalichi, Gülşah Merve Kılınç, Camilla Mazzucato, Anna Juras, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Clark S. Larsen, Marin Pilloud, Scott D. Haddow, Christopher J. Knüsel, İnci Togan, Anders Götherström, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Elif Sürer, Füsun Özer, Çiğdem Atakuman, Mehmet Somel
Peopling the Landscape of Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2009–2017 Seasons (Ed. Ian Hodder) (2020), Volume:53, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Nov 1, 2020
2018
Ancient genomes suggest the eastern Pontic-Caspian steppe as the source of western Iron Age nomads
Maja Krzewińska*, Gülşah Merve Kılınç*, Anna Juras, Dilek Koptekin, Maciej Chyleński, Alexey G. Nikitin, Nikolai Shcherbakov, Iia Shuteleva, Tatiana Leonova, Liudmila Kraeva, Flarit A. Sungatov, Alfija N. Sultanova, Inna Potekhina, Sylwia Łukasik, Marta Krenz-Niedbała, Love Dalén, Vitaly Sinika, Mattias Jakobsson, Jan Storå, Anders Götherström
Science Advances (2018), 4(10), eaat4457
2017
Archaeogenomic analysis of the first steps of Neolithization in Anatolia and the Aegean
Gülşah Merve Kılınç, Dilek Koptekin*, Çiğdem Atakuman*, Arev Pelin Sümer, Handan Melike Dönertaş, Reyhan Yaka, Cemal Can Bilgin, Ali Metin Büyükkarakaya, Douglas Baird, Ezgi Altınışık, Pavel Flegontov, Anders Götherström+, İnci Togan+, Mehmet Somel+
Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2017), 284(1867)
2016
The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia
Gülşah Merve Kılınç*, Ayça Omrak*, Füsun Özer*, Torsten Günther, Ali Metin Büyükkarakaya, Erhan Bıçakçı, Douglas Baird, Handan Melike Dönertaş, Ayshin Ghalichi, Reyhan Yaka, Dilek Koptekin, Sinan Can Açan, Poorya Parvizi, Maja Krzewińska, Evangelia A. Daskalaki, Eren Yüncü, Nihan Dilşad Dağtaş, Andrew Fairbairn, Jessica Pearson, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Yılmaz Selim Erdal, Yasin Gökhan Çakan, İnci Togan, Mehmet Somel, Jan Storå, Mattias Jakobsson, Anders Götherström
Current Biology (2016), 26(19):2659-2666
Dilek Koptekin, Lale Yıldız Aktaş
EJOSAT (2016), 5(9)
2013
Plant microRNAs: Biogenesis, Origin and Evolution
Dilek Koptekin, Lale Yıldız Aktaş
Turkish Journal of Scientific Reviews (2013), 6(2):140-148
* These authors contributed equally
+ These authors contributed equally