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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lazaridis I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4170574 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]