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The genomic history of southeastern Europe.

ABSTRACT: Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading throughout Europe. Here, to understand the dynamics of this process, we analysed genome-wide ancient DNA data from 225 individuals who lived in southeastern Europe and surrounding regions between 12000 and 500 bc. We document a west-east cline of ancestry in indigenous hunter-gatherers and, in eastern Europe, the early stages in the formation of Bronze Age steppe ancestry. We show that the first farmers of northern and western Europe dispersed through southeastern Europe with limited hunter-gatherer admixture, but that some early groups in the southeast mixed extensively with hunter-gatherers without the sex-biased admixture that prevailed later in the north and west. We also show that southeastern Europe continued to be a nexus between east and west after the arrival of farmers, with intermittent genetic contact with steppe populations occurring up to 2,000 years earlier than the migrations from the steppe that ultimately replaced much of the population of northern Europe.

SUBMITTER: Mathieson I

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6091220 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The genomic history of southeastern Europe.

Mathieson Iain I Alpaslan-Roodenberg Songül S Posth Cosimo C Szécsényi-Nagy Anna A Rohland Nadin N Mallick Swapan S Olalde Iñigo I Broomandkhoshbacht Nasreen N Candilio Francesca F Cheronet Olivia O Fernandes Daniel D Ferry Matthew M Gamarra Beatriz B Fortes Gloria González GG Haak Wolfgang W Harney Eadaoin E Jones Eppie E Keating Denise D Krause-Kyora Ben B Kucukkalipci Isil I Michel Megan M Mittnik Alissa A Nägele Kathrin K Novak Mario M Oppenheimer Jonas J Patterson Nick N Pfrengle Saskia S Sirak Kendra K Stewardson Kristin K Vai Stefania S Alexandrov Stefan S Alt Kurt W KW Andreescu Radian R Antonović Dragana D Ash Abigail A Atanassova Nadezhda N Bacvarov Krum K Gusztáv Mende Balázs MB Bocherens Hervé H Bolus Michael M Boroneanţ Adina A Boyadzhiev Yavor Y Budnik Alicja A Burmaz Josip J Chohadzhiev Stefan S Conard Nicholas J NJ Cottiaux Richard R Čuka Maja M Cupillard Christophe C Drucker Dorothée G DG Elenski Nedko N Francken Michael M Galabova Borislava B Ganetsovski Georgi G Gély Bernard B Hajdu Tamás T Handzhyiska Veneta V Harvati Katerina K Higham Thomas T Iliev Stanislav S Janković Ivor I Karavanić Ivor I Kennett Douglas J DJ Komšo Darko D Kozak Alexandra A Labuda Damian D Lari Martina M Lazar Catalin C Leppek Maleen M Leshtakov Krassimir K Vetro Domenico Lo DL Los Dženi D Lozanov Ivaylo I Malina Maria M Martini Fabio F McSweeney Kath K Meller Harald H Menđušić Marko M Mirea Pavel P Moiseyev Vyacheslav V Petrova Vanya V Price T Douglas TD Simalcsik Angela A Sineo Luca L Šlaus Mario M Slavchev Vladimir V Stanev Petar P Starović Andrej A Szeniczey Tamás T Talamo Sahra S Teschler-Nicola Maria M Thevenet Corinne C Valchev Ivan I Valentin Frédérique F Vasilyev Sergey S Veljanovska Fanica F Venelinova Svetlana S Veselovskaya Elizaveta E Viola Bence B Virag Cristian C Zaninović Joško J Zäuner Steve S Stockhammer Philipp W PW Catalano Giulio G Krauß Raiko R Caramelli David D Zariņa Gunita G Gaydarska Bisserka B Lillie Malcolm M Nikitin Alexey G AG Potekhina Inna I Papathanasiou Anastasia A Borić Dušan D Bonsall Clive C Krause Johannes J Pinhasi Ron R Reich David D

Nature 20180221 7695

Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading throughout Europe. Here, to understand the dynamics of this process, we analysed genome-wide ancient DNA data from 225 individuals who lived in southeastern Europe and surrounding regions between 12000 and 500 bc. We document a west-east cline of ancestry in indigenous hunter-gatherers and, in eastern Europe, the early stages in the ...[more]

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