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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans.
- Source :
- Nature; 9/18/2014, Vol. 513 Issue 7518, p409-413, 5p, 1 Chart, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- We sequenced the genomes of a ∼7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ∼8,000-year-old hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other ancient genomes with 2,345 contemporary humans to show that most present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: west European hunter-gatherers, who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; ancient north Eurasians related to Upper Palaeolithic Siberians, who contributed to both Europeans and Near Easterners; and early European farmers, who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harboured west European hunter-gatherer related ancestry. We model these populations' deep relationships and show that early European farmers had ∼44% ancestry from a 'basal Eurasian' population that split before the diversification of other non-African lineages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- GENETIC genealogy
ANCESTORS
GENOMICS
GENEALOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00280836
- Volume :
- 513
- Issue :
- 7518
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Nature
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 98526024
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13673