Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia.
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SUBMITTER: Feldman M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6425003 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
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Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia.
Feldman Michal M Fernández-Domínguez Eva E Reynolds Luke L Baird Douglas D Pearson Jessica J Hershkovitz Israel I May Hila H Goring-Morris Nigel N Benz Marion M Gresky Julia J Bianco Raffaela A RA Fairbairn Andrew A Mustafaoğlu Gökhan G Stockhammer Philipp W PW Posth Cosimo C Haak Wolfgang W Jeong Choongwon C Krause Johannes J
Nature communications 20190319 1
Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we report the first genome-wide data from a 15,000-year-old Anatolian hunter-gatherer and from seven Anatolian and Levantine early farmers. We find high genetic continuity (~80-90%) between the hunter-gatherers and early farmers of Anatolia and detect two distinct incoming ancestries: an early Iranian/Caucasus related one ...[more]
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