Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans.
| dc.contributor.author | Nyambo, Thomas B. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-19T05:52:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-19T05:52:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-09-17 | |
| dc.description.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 genomes1,2,3,4 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 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 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Mittnik, A., Renaud, G., Mallick, S., Kirsanow, K., Sudmant, P.H., Schraiber, J.G., Castellano, S., Lipson, M. and Berger, B., 2014. Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans. Nature, 513(7518), pp.409-413. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13673 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1191 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Nature | en_US |
| dc.subject | Evolution | en_US |
| dc.subject | Genomes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Population | en_US |
| dc.title | Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans. | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |