Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans.
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SUBMITTER: Lazaridis I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4170574 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans.
Lazaridis Iosif I Patterson Nick N Mittnik Alissa A Renaud Gabriel G Mallick Swapan S Kirsanow Karola K Sudmant Peter H PH Schraiber Joshua G JG Castellano Sergi S Lipson Mark M Berger Bonnie B Economou Christos C Bollongino Ruth R Fu Qiaomei Q Bos Kirsten I KI Nordenfelt Susanne S Li Heng H de Filippo Cesare C Prüfer Kay K Sawyer Susanna S Posth Cosimo C Haak Wolfgang W Hallgren Fredrik F Fornander Elin E Rohland Nadin N Delsate Dominique D Francken Michael M Guinet Jean-Michel JM Wahl Joachim J Ayodo George G Babiker Hamza A HA Bailliet Graciela G Balanovska Elena E Balanovsky Oleg O Barrantes Ramiro R Bedoya Gabriel G Ben-Ami Haim H Bene Judit J Berrada Fouad F Bravi Claudio M CM Brisighelli Francesca F Busby George B J GB Cali Francesco F Churnosov Mikhail M Cole David E C DE Corach Daniel D Damba Larissa L van Driem George G Dryomov Stanislav S Dugoujon Jean-Michel JM Fedorova Sardana A SA Gallego Romero Irene I Gubina Marina M Hammer Michael M Henn Brenna M BM Hervig Tor T Hodoglugil Ugur U Jha Aashish R AR Karachanak-Yankova Sena S Khusainova Rita R Khusnutdinova Elza E Kittles Rick R Kivisild Toomas T Klitz William W Kučinskas Vaidutis V Kushniarevich Alena A Laredj Leila L Litvinov Sergey S Loukidis Theologos T Mahley Robert W RW Melegh Béla B Metspalu Ene E Molina Julio J Mountain Joanna J Näkkäläjärvi Klemetti K Nesheva Desislava D Nyambo Thomas T Osipova Ludmila L Parik Jüri J Platonov Fedor F Posukh Olga O Romano Valentino V Rothhammer Francisco F Rudan Igor I Ruizbakiev Ruslan R Sahakyan Hovhannes H Sajantila Antti A Salas Antonio A Starikovskaya Elena B EB Tarekegn Ayele A Toncheva Draga D Turdikulova Shahlo S Uktveryte Ingrida I Utevska Olga O Vasquez René R Villena Mercedes M Voevoda Mikhail M Winkler Cheryl A CA Yepiskoposyan Levon L Zalloua Pierre P Zemunik Tatijana T Cooper Alan A Capelli Cristian C Thomas Mark G MG Ruiz-Linares Andres A Tishkoff Sarah A SA Singh Lalji L Thangaraj Kumarasamy K Villems Richard R Comas David D Sukernik Rem R Metspalu Mait M Meyer Matthias M Eichler Evan E EE Burger Joachim J Slatkin Montgomery M Pääbo Svante S Kelso Janet J Reich David D Krause Johannes J
Nature 20140901 7518
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 ...[more]
