Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans.
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| Abstract | 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 both Europeans and Near Easterners; and early European farmers, who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harboured west European hunter-gatherer related ancestry. We model these populations' deep relationships and show that early European farmers had ∼44% ancestry from a 'basal Eurasian' population that split before the diversification of other non-African lineages. |
| Year of Publication | 2014
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| Journal | Nature
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| Volume | 513
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| Issue | 7518
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| Pages | 409-13
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| Date Published | 2014 Sep 18
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| ISSN | 1476-4687
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| DOI | 10.1038/nature13673
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| PubMed ID | 25230663
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| PubMed Central ID | PMC4170574
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| Grant list | HHSN26120080001E / PHS HHS / United States
8DP1ES022577-04 / DP / NCCDPHP CDC HHS / United States
R01 GM100233 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States
R01 GM040282 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States
R01 HG006399 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States
HG002385 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States
Intramural NIH HHS / United States
HG004120 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States
GM100233 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States
Howard Hughes Medical Institute / United States
R01 HG002385 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States
GM40282 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States
P01 HG004120 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States
DP1 ES022577 / ES / NIEHS NIH HHS / United States
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