Publication Date:
2013-11-22
Description:
The origins of the First Americans remain contentious. Although Native Americans seem to be genetically most closely related to east Asians, there is no consensus with regard to which specific Old World populations they are closest to. Here we sequence the draft genome of an approximately 24,000-year-old individual (MA-1), from Mal'ta in south-central Siberia, to an average depth of 1x. To our knowledge this is the oldest anatomically modern human genome reported to date. The MA-1 mitochondrial genome belongs to haplogroup U, which has also been found at high frequency among Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers, and the Y chromosome of MA-1 is basal to modern-day western Eurasians and near the root of most Native American lineages. Similarly, we find autosomal evidence that MA-1 is basal to modern-day western Eurasians and genetically closely related to modern-day Native Americans, with no close affinity to east Asians. This suggests that populations related to contemporary western Eurasians had a more north-easterly distribution 24,000 years ago than commonly thought. Furthermore, we estimate that 14 to 38% of Native American ancestry may originate through gene flow from this ancient population. This is likely to have occurred after the divergence of Native American ancestors from east Asian ancestors, but before the diversification of Native American populations in the New World. Gene flow from the MA-1 lineage into Native American ancestors could explain why several crania from the First Americans have been reported as bearing morphological characteristics that do not resemble those of east Asians. Sequencing of another south-central Siberian, Afontova Gora-2 dating to approximately 17,000 years ago, revealed similar autosomal genetic signatures as MA-1, suggesting that the region was continuously occupied by humans throughout the Last Glacial Maximum. Our findings reveal that western Eurasian genetic signatures in modern-day Native Americans derive not only from post-Columbian admixture, as commonly thought, but also from a mixed ancestry of the First Americans.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105016/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105016/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Raghavan, Maanasa -- Skoglund, Pontus -- Graf, Kelly E -- Metspalu, Mait -- Albrechtsen, Anders -- Moltke, Ida -- Rasmussen, Simon -- Stafford, Thomas W Jr -- Orlando, Ludovic -- Metspalu, Ene -- Karmin, Monika -- Tambets, Kristiina -- Rootsi, Siiri -- Magi, Reedik -- Campos, Paula F -- Balanovska, Elena -- Balanovsky, Oleg -- Khusnutdinova, Elza -- Litvinov, Sergey -- Osipova, Ludmila P -- Fedorova, Sardana A -- Voevoda, Mikhail I -- DeGiorgio, Michael -- Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas -- Brunak, Soren -- Demeshchenko, Svetlana -- Kivisild, Toomas -- Villems, Richard -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Jakobsson, Mattias -- Willerslev, Eske -- R01 HG003229/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Jan 2;505(7481):87-91. doi: 10.1038/nature12736. Epub 2013 Nov 20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark [2]. ; 1] Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18D, Uppsala 752 36, Sweden [2]. ; Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, TAMU-4352, College Station, Texas 77845-4352, USA. ; 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA [3] Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia. ; The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaloes Vej 5, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark. ; 1] The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaloes Vej 5, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark [2] Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. ; Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark [2] AMS 14C Dating Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade 120, Aarhus DK-8000, Denmark. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia. ; 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia. ; Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia. ; Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia. ; Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moskvorechie Street 1, Moscow 115479, Russia. ; 1] Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moskvorechie Street 1, Moscow 115479, Russia [2] Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina Street 3, Moscow 119991, Russia. ; 1] Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Bashkorostan 450054, Russia [2] Biology Department, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkorostan 450074, Russia. ; 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Bashkorostan 450054, Russia. ; The Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Center for Brain Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyeva Avenue, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. ; Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) 677010, Russia. ; 1] The Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Center for Brain Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyeva Avenue, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia [2] Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Borisa Bogatkova 175/1, Novosibirsk 630089, Russia. ; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. ; 1] Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark [2] Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark. ; The State Hermitage Museum, 2, Dvortsovaya Ploshchad, St. Petersberg 190000, Russia. ; 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK. ; 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia [3] Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn 10130, Estonia. ; 1] Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18D, Uppsala 752 36, Sweden [2] Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24256729" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
;
Asia/ethnology
;
Asian Continental Ancestry Group/*genetics
;
Chromosomes, Human, Y/genetics
;
DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics
;
Emigration and Immigration
;
European Continental Ancestry Group/*genetics
;
Gene Flow/genetics
;
Genome, Human/*genetics
;
Genome, Mitochondrial/genetics
;
Haplotypes/genetics
;
Humans
;
Indians, North American/classification/*ethnology/*genetics
;
Male
;
*Phylogeny
;
Phylogeography
;
Siberia/ethnology
;
Skeleton
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Permalink
