Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
We sequenced the genomes of a 7,000-year-old farmer from Germanyandeight 8,000-year-oldhunter-gatherersfromLuxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other ancient genomes1–4 with 2,345contemporaryhumanstoshowthatmostpresent-dayEuropeans derivefromatleastthreehighlydifferentiatedpopulations:westEuropeanhunter-gatherers,whocontributedancestrytoallEuropeansbut nottoNearEasterners;ancientnorthEurasiansrelatedtoUpperPalaeolithic Siberians3, 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 relatedancestry.Wemodelthesepopulations’deeprelationshipsand show that early European farmers had 44% ancestry from a ‘basal Eurasian’ population that split before the diversification of other non-African lineages.
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Format: | Article biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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Nature
2014-09-18
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Subjects: | GENOMAS, |
Online Access: | http://repositorio.umsa.bo/xmlui/handle/123456789/7986 |
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Summary: | We sequenced the genomes of a 7,000-year-old farmer from Germanyandeight 8,000-year-oldhunter-gatherersfromLuxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other ancient genomes1–4 with 2,345contemporaryhumanstoshowthatmostpresent-dayEuropeans
derivefromatleastthreehighlydifferentiatedpopulations:westEuropeanhunter-gatherers,whocontributedancestrytoallEuropeansbut
nottoNearEasterners;ancientnorthEurasiansrelatedtoUpperPalaeolithic Siberians3, 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
relatedancestry.Wemodelthesepopulations’deeprelationshipsand
show that early European farmers had 44% ancestry from a ‘basal
Eurasian’ population that split before the diversification of other
non-African lineages. |
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