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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Main Authors:	Lazaridis, Iosif, Patterson, Nick, Mittnik, Alissa, Renaud, Gabriel, Mallick, Swapan, Kirsanow, Karola, Sudmant, Peter H, Schraiber, Joshua G, Castellano, Sergi, Lipson, Mark, Berger, Bonnie, Economou, Christos, Bollongino, Ruth, Fu, Q, Bos, Kirsten I, Nordenfelt, Susanne, Li, Heng, Filippo, Cesare de, Prüfer, Kay, Sawyer, Susanna, Posth, Cosimo, Haak, Wolfgang, Hallgren, Fredrik, Fornander, Elin, Rohland, Nadin, Delsate, Dominique, Francken, Michael, Guinet,Jean-Michel, Wahl, Joachim, Ayodo,George, Babiker, Hamza A, Bailliet. Graciela, Balanovska, Elena, Balanovsky,Oleg, Barrantes, Ramiro, Bedoya, Gabriel, Ben-Ami, Haim, Bene, Judit, Berrada, Fouad, Bravi, Claudio M, Brisighelli, Francesca, Busby, George BJ, Cali, Francesco, Churnosov, Mikhail, Cole, David EC, Corach, Daniel, Damba, Larissa, Driem, George van, Dryomov, Stanislav, Dugoujon, Jean-Michel, Fedorova, Sardana A, Gallego Romero, Irene, Gubina, Marina, Hammer, Michael, Henn, Brenna M, Hervig,Tor, Hodoglugil, Ugur, Jha, Aashish R, Karachanak-Yankova, Sena, Khusainova, Rita, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Kittles, Rick, Kivisild, Toomas, Klitz, William, Kucinskas, Vaidutis, Kushniarevich, Alena, Laredj, Leila, Litvinov, Sergey, Loukidis, Theologos, Mahley, Robert W, Melegh, Béla, Metspalu, Ene, Molina, Julio, Mountain, Joanna, Näkkäläjärvi, Klemetti, Nesheva, Desislava, Nyambo, Thomas, Osipova, Ludmila, Parik, Jüri, Platonov, Fedor, Posukh, Olga, Romano, Valentino, Rothhammer, Francisco, Rudan, Igor, Ruizbakiev, Ruslan, Sahakyan, Hovhannes, Sajantila, Antti, Salas, Antonio, Starikovskaya, Elena B, Tarekegn, Ayele, Toncheva, Draga, Turdikulova, Shahlo, Uktveryte, Ingrida, Utevska,Olga, Vasquez, René, Villena, Mercedes, Voevoda, Mikhail, Winkler, Cheryl A, Yepiskoposyan, Levon, Zalloua, Pierre, Zemunik, Tatijana, Cooper, Alan, Capelli, Cristian, Thomas, Mark G, Ruiz-Linares, Andres, Tishkoff, Sarah A, Singh, Lalji, Thangaraj, Kumarasamy, Villems, Richard, Comas, David, Sukernik, Rem, Metspalu, Mait, Meyer, Matthias, Eichler, Evan E, Burger, Joachim, Slatkin, Montgomery, Pääbo, Svante, Kelso, Janet, Reich, David, Krause, Johannes
Format:	Article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Nature 2014-09-18
Subjects:	GENOMAS,
Online Access:	http://repositorio.umsa.bo/xmlui/handle/123456789/7986
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