Editing Svante Pääbo (section)

== Education and early life ==
Pääbo was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1955 and grew up there with his mother,<ref name=kolbert /> [[Republic of Estonia|Estonian]] chemist Karin Pääbo ({{IPA|et|ˈpæːpo|lang}}; 1925–2013), who had escaped from the [[Occupation of the Baltic states|Soviet invasion]] in 1944<ref name="Eesti Päevaleht">{{cite news|author1=Külli Riin Tigasson|url=https://epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/64086549/taismahus-svante-paabo-mis-tegi-inimesest-inimese?|title=Svante Pääbo: mis tegi inimesest inimese?|access-date=20 October 2022|work=Eesti Päevaleht|date=17 March 2012|format=Interview with subject|language=et|archive-date=21 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021133625/https://epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/64086549/taismahus-svante-paabo-mis-tegi-inimesest-inimese|url-status=live}}</ref> and arrived in Sweden as a refugee during World War II.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tambur |first1=Silver |title=Estonian descendant Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel prize |url=https://estonianworld.com/knowledge/estonian-descendant-svante-paabo-awarded-a-nobel-prize/ |website=EstonianWorld |access-date=8 October 2022 |language=en |date=3 October 2022 |archive-date=8 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008180732/https://estonianworld.com/knowledge/estonian-descendant-svante-paabo-awarded-a-nobel-prize/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Strandberg |first1=Marek |title=Eesti juurtega Svante Pääbo tõi kärgperre teisegi Nobeli auhinna |url=https://teadus.postimees.ee/7618998/eesti-juurtega-svante-paabo-toi-kargperre-teisegi-nobeli-auhinna |work=Postimees |date=4 October 2022 |language=et |access-date=18 October 2022 |archive-date=18 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018173355/https://teadus.postimees.ee/7618998/eesti-juurtega-svante-paabo-toi-kargperre-teisegi-nobeli-auhinna |url-status=live }}{{subscription required}}</ref> He was born through an extramarital affair<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schultz |first1=Isaac |title=Paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo Picks Up Nobel Prize for Human Origins Research |url=https://gizmodo.com/svante-paabo-nobel-prize-human-origins-neanderthals-1849609090 |website=Gizmodo |access-date=6 October 2022 |language=en |date=3 October 2022 |archive-date=6 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006135922/https://gizmodo.com/svante-paabo-nobel-prize-human-origins-neanderthals-1849609090 |url-status=live }}</ref> of his father, Swedish biochemist [[Sune Bergström]] (1916–2004),<ref name=kolbert /> who, like his son, became a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (in 1982).<ref name=forbes /> Pääbo is his mother's only child; he has via his father's marriage a half-brother, Rurik Reenstierna (also born in 1955), who only learned Svante was his brother in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dn.se/sverige/svante-paabo-far-nobelpriset-i-medicin/|title=Svensken Svante Pääbo får Nobelpriset i medicin|date=3 October 2022|website=Dagens Nyheter|access-date=3 October 2022|archive-date=3 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003101930/https://www.dn.se/sverige/svante-paabo-far-nobelpriset-i-medicin/|url-status=live |language=sv}}</ref>

Pääbo grew up as a native Swedish speaker.<ref name="Eesti Päevaleht"/> In a 2012 interview with the Estonian newspaper ''[[Eesti Päevaleht]]'', he said that he self-identifies as a [[Swedes|Swede]], but has a "special relationship with Estonia".<ref>{{cite news|author1=Külli Riin Tigasson|url=https://epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/64086549/taismahus-svante-paabo-mis-tegi-inimesest-inimese?|title=Svante Pääbo: mis tegi inimesest inimese?|access-date=20 October 2022|work=Eesti Päevaleht|date=17 March 2012|format=Interview with subject|quote=Pääbo was quoted saying: "I grew up understanding what Estonia is, but I don't speak Estonian. I have never attended Estonian school. I identify with the Swedes, but I have a special relationship with Estonia."(''Kasvasin üles teades, mis on Eesti, aga eesti keelt ma ei räägi. Ma pole kunagi käinud eesti koolis. Identifitseerin end rootslastega, aga mul on eriline suhe Eestiga'')|language=et|archive-date=21 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021133625/https://epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/64086549/taismahus-svante-paabo-mis-tegi-inimesest-inimese|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1975, Pääbo began studying at [[Uppsala University]], serving one year in the Swedish Defense Forces attached to the School of Interpreters. Pääbo earned his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1986 for research investigating how the E19 [[protein]] of [[adenovirus]]es modulates the [[immune system]].<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Svante |last=Pääbo |title=How the E19 protein of adenoviruses modulates the immune system |publisher=Uppsala University |year=1986 |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn%3Anbn%3Ase%3Auu%3Adiva-114617 |oclc=16668494 |isbn=9155419216 |access-date=22 December 2016 |archive-date=3 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003134617/http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A294502&dswid=261 |url-status=live }}</ref>