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SUBMITTER: Olalde I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6436108 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20190301 6432
We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect of the Iberian Peninsula. We document high genetic substructure between northwestern and southeastern hunter-gatherers before the spread of farming. We reveal sporadic contacts between Iberia and North Africa by ~2500 BCE and, by ~2000 BCE, the replacement of 40% of Iberia's ancestry and nearly 100% of its Y-chromosomes by pe ...[more]