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SUBMITTER: Haber M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6506814 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Haber Marc M Doumet-Serhal Claude C Scheib Christiana L CL Xue Yali Y Mikulski Richard R Martiniano Rui R Fischer-Genz Bettina B Schutkowski Holger H Kivisild Toomas T Tyler-Smith Chris C
American journal of human genetics 20190418 5
During the medieval period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans migrated to the Near East to take part in the Crusades, and many of them settled in the newly established Christian states along the Eastern Mediterranean coast. Here, we present a genetic snapshot of these events and their aftermath by sequencing the whole genomes of 13 individuals who lived in what is today known as Lebanon between the 3<sup>rd</sup> and 13<sup>th</sup> centuries CE. These include nine individuals from the "Crusade ...[more]