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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | The genetic history of Ice Age Europe |
Author: | Fu, Q. Posth, C. Hajdinjak, M. Petr, M. Mallick, S. Fernandes, D. Furtwängler, A. Haak, W. Meyer, M. Mittnik, A. Nickel, B. Peltzer, A. Rohland, N. Slon, V. Talamo, S. Lazaridis, I. Lipson, M. Mathieson, I. Schiffels, S. Skoglund, P. et al. |
Citation: | Nature, 2016; 534(7606):200-205 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
ISSN: | 0028-0836 1476-4687 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Qiaomei Fu ... Wolfgang Haak ... et al. |
Abstract: | Modern humans arrived in Europe ~45,000 years ago, but little is known about their genetic composition before the start of farming ~8,500 years ago. Here we analyse genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from ~45,000-7,000 years ago. Over this time, the proportion of Neanderthal DNA decreased from 3-6% to around 2%, consistent with natural selection against Neanderthal variants in modern humans. Whereas there is no evidence of the earliest modern humans in Europe contributing to the genetic composition of present-day Europeans, all individuals between ~37,000 and ~14,000 years ago descended from a single founder population which forms part of the ancestry of present-day Europeans. An ~35,000-year-old individual from northwest Europe represents an early branch of this founder population which was then displaced across a broad region, before reappearing in southwest Europe at the height of the last Ice Age ~19,000 years ago. During the major warming period after ~14,000 years ago, a genetic component related to present-day Near Easterners became widespread in Europe. These results document how population turnover and migration have been recurring themes of European prehistory. |
Keywords: | Genetics, population |
Rights: | © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1038/nature17993 |
Grant ID: | 2010EL8TXP_003 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature17993 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Genetics publications |
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