Nice find! from the article:
“Roosen believes that this demographic research is important to the purpose of discovering why some regions recover from disasters like the plague faster than other regions.
‘What makes one society more resilient than the other?
“’If the plague was just as fierce in the Southern Netherlands, how do we explain that this region recovered faster than other regions?
“’The Low Countries experienced a full demographic recovery during the 16th century (population level prior to the Black Death), but a similar recovery in England did not occur until the 18th century.’”
Interesting that England and the Netherlands at opposite poles for this round.
One thing to consider is that in Winter of 1944, the Netherlands had the Hongerwinter, when the Nazis cut off food supplies to the Dutch and many suffered from malnutrition. This certainly had impact on the DNA of subsequent generations of Dutch.