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Description: Ancient genomic sequences have started to reveal the origin and the demographic impact of farmers from the Neolithic period spreading into Europe. The adoption of farming, stock breeding and sedentary societies during the Neolithic may have resulted in adaptive changes in genes associated with immunity and diet. However, the limited data available from earlier hunter-gatherers preclude an understanding of the selective processes associated with this crucial transition to agriculture in recent human evolution. Here we sequence an approximately 7,000-year-old Mesolithic skeleton discovered at the La Brana-Arintero site in Leon, Spain, to retrieve a complete pre-agricultural European human genome. Analysis of this genome in the context of other ancient samples suggests the existence of a common ancient genomic signature across western and central Eurasia from the Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic. The La Brana individual carries ancestral alleles in several skin pigmentation genes, suggesting that the light skin of modern Europeans was not yet ubiquitous in Mesolithic times. Moreover, we provide evidence that a significant number of derived, putatively adaptive variants associated with pathogen resistance in modern Europeans were already present in this hunter-gatherer.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4269527/" 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/PMC4269527/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Olalde, Inigo -- Allentoft, Morten E -- Sanchez-Quinto, Federico -- Santpere, Gabriel -- Chiang, Charleston W K -- DeGiorgio, Michael -- Prado-Martinez, Javier -- Rodriguez, Juan Antonio -- Rasmussen, Simon -- Quilez, Javier -- Ramirez, Oscar -- Marigorta, Urko M -- Fernandez-Callejo, Marcos -- Prada, Maria Encina -- Encinas, Julio Manuel Vidal -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Netea, Mihai G -- Novembre, John -- Sturm, Richard A -- Sabeti, Pardis -- Marques-Bonet, Tomas -- Navarro, Arcadi -- Willerslev, Eske -- Lalueza-Fox, Carles -- F32 GM106656/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- F32GM106656/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG007089/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01-HG007089/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Mar 13;507(7491):225-8. doi: 10.1038/nature12960. Epub 2014 Jan 26.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC-UPF, Barcelona 08003, Spain [2]. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2]. ; Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC-UPF, Barcelona 08003, Spain. ; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. ; 1] Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA [2] Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, 502 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. ; Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. ; I.E.S.O. 'Los Salados', Junta de Castilla y Leon, E-49600 Benavente, Spain. ; Junta de Castilla y Leon, Servicio de Cultura de Leon, E-24071 Leon, Spain. ; Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. ; Department of Medicine and Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 6500 Nijmegen, The Netherlands. ; Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. ; Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Melanogenix Group, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. ; 1] Center for Systems Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA [2] Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; 1] Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC-UPF, Barcelona 08003, Spain [2] Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ; 1] Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC-UPF, Barcelona 08003, Spain [2] Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain [3] Centre de Regulacio Genomica (CRG), Barcelona 08003, Catalonia, Spain [4] National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB), Barcelona 08003, Catalonia, Spain. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24463515" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: Clovis, with its distinctive biface, blade and osseous technologies, is the oldest widespread archaeological complex defined in North America, dating from 11,100 to 10,700 (14)C years before present (bp) (13,000 to 12,600 calendar years bp). Nearly 50 years of archaeological research point to the Clovis complex as having developed south of the North American ice sheets from an ancestral technology. However, both the origins and the genetic legacy of the people who manufactured Clovis tools remain under debate. It is generally believed that these people ultimately derived from Asia and were directly related to contemporary Native Americans. An alternative, Solutrean, hypothesis posits that the Clovis predecessors emigrated from southwestern Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum. Here we report the genome sequence of a male infant (Anzick-1) recovered from the Anzick burial site in western Montana. The human bones date to 10,705 +/- 35 (14)C years bp (approximately 12,707-12,556 calendar years bp) and were directly associated with Clovis tools. We sequenced the genome to an average depth of 14.4x and show that the gene flow from the Siberian Upper Palaeolithic Mal'ta population into Native American ancestors is also shared by the Anzick-1 individual and thus happened before 12,600 years bp. We also show that the Anzick-1 individual is more closely related to all indigenous American populations than to any other group. Our data are compatible with the hypothesis that Anzick-1 belonged to a population directly ancestral to many contemporary Native Americans. Finally, we find evidence of a deep divergence in Native American populations that predates the Anzick-1 individual.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rasmussen, Morten -- Anzick, Sarah L -- Waters, Michael R -- Skoglund, Pontus -- DeGiorgio, Michael -- Stafford, Thomas W Jr -- Rasmussen, Simon -- Moltke, Ida -- Albrechtsen, Anders -- Doyle, Shane M -- Poznik, G David -- Gudmundsdottir, Valborg -- Yadav, Rachita -- Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo -- White, Samuel Stockton 5th -- Allentoft, Morten E -- Cornejo, Omar E -- Tambets, Kristiina -- Eriksson, Anders -- Heintzman, Peter D -- Karmin, Monika -- Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand -- Meltzer, David J -- Pierre, Tracey L -- Stenderup, Jesper -- Saag, Lauri -- Warmuth, Vera M -- Lopes, Margarida C -- Malhi, Ripan S -- Brunak, Soren -- Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas -- Barnes, Ian -- Collins, Matthew -- Orlando, Ludovic -- Balloux, Francois -- Manica, Andrea -- Gupta, Ramneek -- Metspalu, Mait -- Bustamante, Carlos D -- Jakobsson, Mattias -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Willerslev, Eske -- BB/H005854/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- BB/H008802/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- P25032/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2014 Feb 13;506(7487):225-9. doi: 10.1038/nature13025.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2]. ; 1] Anzick Family, 31 Old Clyde Park Road, Livingston, Montana 59047, USA [2]. ; Center for the Study of the First Americans, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, Texas A&M University, 4352 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-4352, USA. ; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden. ; 1] Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 4134 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, California 94720, USA [2] Earth Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK (I.B.); Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, 502 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA (M.D.). ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] AMS 14C Dating Centre, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. ; Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet 208, Kgs. Lyngby DK-2800, Denmark. ; 1] The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaloes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark [2] Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, 920 E. 58th Street, CLSC 4th floor, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. ; The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaloes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark. ; Education Department, Montana State University, Box 5103, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA. ; Program in Biomedical Informatics and Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ; Anthropology Department, PhD Program, University of Montana, 4100 Mullan Road, no. 217, Missoula, Montana 59808, USA. ; School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, PO Box 644236, Eastlick Hall 395, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA. ; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Estonian Biocentre and University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia. ; 1] Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK [2] Integrative Systems Biology Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ; School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK. ; Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA. ; 1] Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK [2] Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. ; Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. ; Department of Anthropology and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 209F Davenport Hall, 607 Matthews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. ; 1] School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK [2] Earth Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK (I.B.); Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, 502 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA (M.D.). ; BioArCh, Departments of Biology, Archaeology and Chemistry, University of York, Wentworth Way, York YO10 5DD, UK. ; MRC Centre for Outbreak, Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London W2 1PG, UK. ; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK. ; 1] Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Littlefield Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA [2] Center for Evolutionary and Human Genomics, Stanford University, Littlefield Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; 1] Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden [2] Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden. ; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 4134 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24522598" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: Kennewick Man, referred to as the Ancient One by Native Americans, is a male human skeleton discovered in Washington state (USA) in 1996 and initially radiocarbon dated to 8,340-9,200 calibrated years before present (BP). His population affinities have been the subject of scientific debate and legal controversy. Based on an initial study of cranial morphology it was asserted that Kennewick Man was neither Native American nor closely related to the claimant Plateau tribes of the Pacific Northwest, who claimed ancestral relationship and requested repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The morphological analysis was important to judicial decisions that Kennewick Man was not Native American and that therefore NAGPRA did not apply. Instead of repatriation, additional studies of the remains were permitted. Subsequent craniometric analysis affirmed Kennewick Man to be more closely related to circumpacific groups such as the Ainu and Polynesians than he is to modern Native Americans. In order to resolve Kennewick Man's ancestry and affiliations, we have sequenced his genome to approximately 1x coverage and compared it to worldwide genomic data including for the Ainu and Polynesians. We find that Kennewick Man is closer to modern Native Americans than to any other population worldwide. Among the Native American groups for whom genome-wide data are available for comparison, several seem to be descended from a population closely related to that of Kennewick Man, including the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Colville), one of the five tribes claiming Kennewick Man. We revisit the cranial analyses and find that, as opposed to genome-wide comparisons, it is not possible on that basis to affiliate Kennewick Man to specific contemporary groups. We therefore conclude based on genetic comparisons that Kennewick Man shows continuity with Native North Americans over at least the last eight millennia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rasmussen, Morten -- Sikora, Martin -- Albrechtsen, Anders -- Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand -- Moreno-Mayar, J Victor -- Poznik, G David -- Zollikofer, Christoph P E -- Ponce de Leon, Marcia S -- Allentoft, Morten E -- Moltke, Ida -- Jonsson, Hakon -- Valdiosera, Cristina -- Malhi, Ripan S -- Orlando, Ludovic -- Bustamante, Carlos D -- Stafford, Thomas W Jr -- Meltzer, David J -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Willerslev, Eske -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jul 23;523(7561):455-8. doi: 10.1038/nature14625.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Littlefield Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ; The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaloes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark. ; Program in Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; Anthropological Institute, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia. ; Department of Anthropology and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 209F Davenport Hall, 607 Matthews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. ; 1] Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Littlefield Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA [2] Center for Evolutionary and Human Genomics, Stanford University, Littlefield Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] AMS, 14C Dating Centre, Department of Physics &Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. ; Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 4134 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26087396" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: How and when the Americas were populated remains contentious. Using ancient and modern genome-wide data, we found that the ancestors of all present-day Native Americans, including Athabascans and Amerindians, entered the Americas as a single migration wave from Siberia no earlier than 23 thousand years ago (ka) and after no more than an 8000-year isolation period in Beringia. After their arrival to the Americas, ancestral Native Americans diversified into two basal genetic branches around 13 ka, one that is now dispersed across North and South America and the other restricted to North America. Subsequent gene flow resulted in some Native Americans sharing ancestry with present-day East Asians (including Siberians) and, more distantly, Australo-Melanesians. Putative "Paleoamerican" relict populations, including the historical Mexican Pericues and South American Fuego-Patagonians, are not directly related to modern Australo-Melanesians as suggested by the Paleoamerican Model.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4733658/" 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/PMC4733658/" 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 -- Steinrucken, Matthias -- Harris, Kelley -- Schiffels, Stephan -- Rasmussen, Simon -- DeGiorgio, Michael -- Albrechtsen, Anders -- Valdiosera, Cristina -- Avila-Arcos, Maria C -- Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo -- Eriksson, Anders -- Moltke, Ida -- Metspalu, Mait -- Homburger, Julian R -- Wall, Jeff -- Cornejo, Omar E -- Moreno-Mayar, J Victor -- Korneliussen, Thorfinn S -- Pierre, Tracey -- Rasmussen, Morten -- Campos, Paula F -- Damgaard, Peter de Barros -- Allentoft, Morten E -- Lindo, John -- Metspalu, Ene -- Rodriguez-Varela, Ricardo -- Mansilla, Josefina -- Henrickson, Celeste -- Seguin-Orlando, Andaine -- Malmstrom, Helena -- Stafford, Thomas Jr -- Shringarpure, Suyash S -- Moreno-Estrada, Andres -- Karmin, Monika -- Tambets, Kristiina -- Bergstrom, Anders -- Xue, Yali -- Warmuth, Vera -- Friend, Andrew D -- Singarayer, Joy -- Valdes, Paul -- Balloux, Francois -- Leboreiro, Ilan -- Vera, Jose Luis -- Rangel-Villalobos, Hector -- Pettener, Davide -- Luiselli, Donata -- Davis, Loren G -- Heyer, Evelyne -- Zollikofer, Christoph P E -- Ponce de Leon, Marcia S -- Smith, Colin I -- Grimes, Vaughan -- Pike, Kelly-Anne -- Deal, Michael -- Fuller, Benjamin T -- Arriaza, Bernardo -- Standen, Vivien -- Luz, Maria F -- Ricaut, Francois -- Guidon, Niede -- Osipova, Ludmila -- Voevoda, Mikhail I -- Posukh, Olga L -- Balanovsky, Oleg -- Lavryashina, Maria -- Bogunov, Yuri -- Khusnutdinova, Elza -- Gubina, Marina -- Balanovska, Elena -- Fedorova, Sardana -- Litvinov, Sergey -- Malyarchuk, Boris -- Derenko, Miroslava -- Mosher, M J -- Archer, David -- Cybulski, Jerome -- Petzelt, Barbara -- Mitchell, Joycelynn -- Worl, Rosita -- Norman, Paul J -- Parham, Peter -- Kemp, Brian M -- Kivisild, Toomas -- Tyler-Smith, Chris -- Sandhu, Manjinder S -- Crawford, Michael -- Villems, Richard -- Smith, David Glenn -- Waters, Michael R -- Goebel, Ted -- Johnson, John R -- Malhi, Ripan S -- Jakobsson, Mattias -- Meltzer, David J -- Manica, Andrea -- Durbin, Richard -- Bustamante, Carlos D -- Song, Yun S -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Willerslev, Eske -- 098051/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 261213/European Research Council/International -- 2R01HG003229-09/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- BB/H005854/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- R01-AI17892/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01-GM094402/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Aug 21;349(6250):aab3884. doi: 10.1126/science.aab3884. Epub 2015 Jul 21.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. ; Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. ; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK. ; Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, Building 208, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. ; Departments of Biology and Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, 502 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA. ; The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaloes Vej 5, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, Lane Building, Room L331, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. ; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK. Integrative Systems Biology Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ; Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia. Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia. ; Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, Lane Building, Room L331, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. ; Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. ; School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Post Office Box 644236, Heald 429, Pullman, WA 99164, USA. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. Centro de Investigacion en Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia/Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigacao Marinha e Ambiental, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigacao Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Rua dos Bragas 289, 4050-123 Porto, Portugal. ; Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 607 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. ; Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolucion y Comportamiento Humano, Madrid, Spain. ; Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Moneda 13, Centro, Cuauhtemoc, 06060 Mexico City, Mexico. ; University of Utah, Department of Anthropology, 270 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. ; Department of Evolutionary Biology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18D, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. Acceleration Mass Spectrometry 14C Dating Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. ; Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, Lane Building, Room L331, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Laboratorio Nacional de Genomica para la Biodiversidad (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36821, Mexico. ; Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia. ; Genetics Institute, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum, Norbyvagen 18D, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden. ; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK. ; Centre for Past Climate Change and Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Post Office Box 243, Reading, UK. ; School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK. ; Genetics Institute, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. ; Escuela Nacional de AntropologIa e Historia, Periferico Sur y Zapote s/n Colonia Isidro Fabela, Tlalpan, Isidro Fabela, 14030 Mexico City, Mexico. ; Instituto de Investigacion en Genetica Molecular, Universidad de Guadalajara, Ocotlan, Mexico. ; Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali (BiGeA), Universita di Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy. ; Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, 238 Waldo Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA. ; Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Universite Paris 7 Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Sorbonne Universites, Unite Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie (UMR7206), Paris, France. ; Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland. ; Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia. ; Department of Archaeology, Memorial University, Queen's College, 210 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7, Canada. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany. ; Department of Archaeology, Memorial University, Queen's College, 210 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7, Canada. ; Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Group, B321 Croul Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. ; Instituto de Alta Investigacion, Universidad de Tarapaca, 18 de Septiembre 2222, Carsilla 6-D Arica, Chile. ; Departamento de Antropologia, Universidad de Tarapaca, 18 de Septiembre 2222, Carsilla 6-D Arica, Chile. ; Fundacao Museu do Homem Americano, Centro Cultural Sergio Motta, Campestre, 64770-000 Sao Raimundo Nonato, Brazil. ; Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moleculaire et Imagerie de Synthese UMR-5288, CNRS, Universite de Toulouse, 31073 Toulouse, France. ; Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia. Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Street, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia. ; Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia. Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of RAS, 175/1 ul. B. Bogatkova, Novosibirsk 630089, Russia. Novosibirsk State University, Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Bioinformatics, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia. ; Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Gubkina 3, 119333 Moscow, Russia. Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moskvorechie 1, 115478 Moscow, Russia. ; Kemerovo State University, Krasnaya 3, 650000 Kemerovo, Russia. ; Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Gubkina 3, 119333 Moscow, Russia. ; Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Oktyabrya 71, 450054 Ufa, Russia. Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Zaki Validi 32, 450076 Ufa, Russia. ; Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia. ; Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moskvorechie 1, 115478 Moscow, Russia. ; Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Scientific Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Sergelyahskoe Shosse 4, 677010 Yakutsk, Russia. Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Natural Sciences, M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, 677000 Yakutsk, Russia. ; Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia. Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Oktyabrya 71, 450054 Ufa, Russia. ; Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street 18, Magadan 685000, Russia. ; Department of Anthropology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA. ; Department of Anthropology, Northwest Community College, 353 Fifth Street, Prince Rupert, British Columbia V8J 3L6, Canada. ; Canadian Museum of History, 100 Rue Laurier, Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0M8, Canada. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada. ; Metlakatla Treaty Office, Post Office Box 224, Prince Rupert, BC V8J 3P6, Canada. ; Sealaska Heritage Institute, 105 S. Seward Street, Juneau, AK 99801, USA. ; Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, D100 Fairchild Science Building, Stanford, CA 94305-5126, USA. ; School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Post Office Box 644236, Heald 429, Pullman, WA 99164, USA. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163, USA. ; Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia. Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK. ; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK. Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. ; Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Boulevard, 622 Fraser Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA. ; Molecular Anthropology Laboratory, 209 Young Hall, Department of Anthropology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA. ; Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352, USA. Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352, USA. Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352, USA. ; Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352, USA. ; Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA. ; Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 607 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA. ; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK. ; Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building 3140, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. ewillierslev@snm.ku.dk rasmus_nielsen@berkeley.edu yss@berkeley.edu. ; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building 3140, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. ewillierslev@snm.ku.dk rasmus_nielsen@berkeley.edu yss@berkeley.edu. ; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. ewillierslev@snm.ku.dk rasmus_nielsen@berkeley.edu yss@berkeley.edu.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26198033" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000-1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations, potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods to sequence low-coverage genomes from 101 ancient humans from across Eurasia. We show that the Bronze Age was a highly dynamic period involving large-scale population migrations and replacements, responsible for shaping major parts of present-day demographic structure in both Europe and Asia. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesized spread of Indo-European languages during the Early Bronze Age. We also demonstrate that light skin pigmentation in Europeans was already present at high frequency in the Bronze Age, but not lactose tolerance, indicating a more recent onset of positive selection on lactose tolerance than previously thought.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Allentoft, Morten E -- Sikora, Martin -- Sjogren, Karl-Goran -- Rasmussen, Simon -- Rasmussen, Morten -- Stenderup, Jesper -- Damgaard, Peter B -- Schroeder, Hannes -- Ahlstrom, Torbjorn -- Vinner, Lasse -- Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo -- Margaryan, Ashot -- Higham, Tom -- Chivall, David -- Lynnerup, Niels -- Harvig, Lise -- Baron, Justyna -- Della Casa, Philippe -- Dabrowski, Pawel -- Duffy, Paul R -- Ebel, Alexander V -- Epimakhov, Andrey -- Frei, Karin -- Furmanek, Miroslaw -- Gralak, Tomasz -- Gromov, Andrey -- Gronkiewicz, Stanislaw -- Grupe, Gisela -- Hajdu, Tamas -- Jarysz, Radoslaw -- Khartanovich, Valeri -- Khokhlov, Alexandr -- Kiss, Viktoria -- Kolar, Jan -- Kriiska, Aivar -- Lasak, Irena -- Longhi, Cristina -- McGlynn, George -- Merkevicius, Algimantas -- Merkyte, Inga -- Metspalu, Mait -- Mkrtchyan, Ruzan -- Moiseyev, Vyacheslav -- Paja, Laszlo -- Palfi, Gyorgy -- Pokutta, Dalia -- Pospieszny, Lukasz -- Price, T Douglas -- Saag, Lehti -- Sablin, Mikhail -- Shishlina, Natalia -- Smrcka, Vaclav -- Soenov, Vasilii I -- Szeverenyi, Vajk -- Toth, Gusztav -- Trifanova, Synaru V -- Varul, Liivi -- Vicze, Magdolna -- Yepiskoposyan, Levon -- Zhitenev, Vladislav -- Orlando, Ludovic -- Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas -- Brunak, Soren -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Kristiansen, Kristian -- Willerslev, Eske -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jun 11;522(7555):167-72. doi: 10.1038/nature14507.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ; Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. ; Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs Lyngby, Denmark. ; 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark [2] Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, 2300 Leiden, The Netherlands. ; Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden. ; Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK. ; Unit of Forensic Anthropology, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Institute of Archaeology, University of Wroclaw, 50-139 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Archaeological Institute, University of Zurich, CH-8006, Zurich, Switzerland. ; Department of Anatomy, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-368 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto ONM5S 2S2, Canada. ; Department of Archeology and General History, Gorno-Altaisk State University, 649000 Gorno-Altaisk, Russia. ; Institute of History and Archaeology RAS (South Ural Department), South Ural State University, 454080 Chelyabinsk, Russia. ; Environmental Research and Material Science and Centre for Textile Research, The National Museum of Denmark, 1471 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ; Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) RAS, 199034 St Petersburg, Russia. ; Department of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 50-449 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Biocentre of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munchen, 82152 Munich, Germany. ; 1] Department of Biological Anthropology, Institute of Biology, Eotvos Lorand University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary [2] Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary. ; The Archaeological Museum of Wroclaw, 50-077 Wroclaw, Poland. ; Samara State Academy of Social Science and Humanities, 443099 Samara, Russia. ; Institute of Archaeology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities, H-1250 Budapest, Hungary. ; 1] Institute of Archaeology and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic [2] Department of Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic. ; Department of Archaeology, University of Tartu, 51003 Tartu, Estonia. ; Archaeological Superintendence of Lombardy, 20123 Milano, Italy. ; Department of Archaeology, University of Vilnius, LT-01513 Vilnius, Lithuania. ; The SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. ; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Estonian Biocentre and University of Tartu, 51010 Tartu, Estonia. ; Department of History, Yerevan State University, 0025 Yerevan, Armenia. ; 1] Hungarian National Museum, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary [2] Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary. ; Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, H-6726 Szeged, Hungary. ; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 61-612 Poznan, Poland. ; Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. ; Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 St Petersburg, Russia. ; Department of Archaeology, State Historical Museum, 109012 Moscow, Russia. ; Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, 121 08 Prague, Czech Republic. ; Research Center for the History and Culture of the Turkic Peoples, Gorno-Altaisk State University, 649000 Gorno-Altaisk, Russia. ; Department of Pre- and Early History, Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Eotvos Lorand University, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary. ; Matrica Museum, 2440 Szazhalombatta, Hungary. ; Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, 0014 Yerevan, Armenia. ; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia. ; 1] Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs Lyngby, Denmark [2] Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3140, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26062507" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: The extinction of New Zealand's moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) followed the arrival of humans in the late 13th century and was the final event of the prehistoric Late Quaternary megafauna extinctions. Determining the state of the moa populations in the pre-extinction period is fundamental to understanding the causes of the event....

Description: Between 1500 and 1850, more than 12 million enslaved Africans were transported to the New World. The vast majority were shipped from West and West-Central Africa, but their precise origins are largely unknown. We used genome-wide ancient DNA analyses to investigate the genetic origins of three enslaved Africans whose remains...

Description: 〈p〉Studies of the peopling of the Americas have focused on the timing and number of initial migrations. Less attention has been paid to the subsequent spread of people within the Americas. We sequenced 15 ancient human genomes spanning Alaska to Patagonia; six are ≥10,000 years old (up to ~18x coverage). All are most closely related to Native Americans, including an Ancient Beringian individual, and two morphologically distinct "Paleoamericans." We find evidence of rapid dispersal and early diversification, including previously unknown groups, as people moved south. This resulted in multiple independent, geographically uneven migrations, including one that provides clues of a Late Pleistocene Australasian genetic signal, and a later Mesoamerican-related expansion. These led to complex and dynamic population histories from North to South America.〈/p〉

Description: 〈p〉Studies of the peopling of the Americas have focused on the timing and number of initial migrations. Less attention has been paid to the subsequent spread of people within the Americas. We sequenced 15 ancient human genomes spanning from Alaska to Patagonia; six are ≥10,000 years old (up to ~18x coverage). All are most closely related to Native Americans, including those from an Ancient Beringian individual and two morphologically distinct "Paleoamericans." We found evidence of rapid dispersal and early diversification that included previously unknown groups as people moved south. This resulted in multiple independent, geographically uneven migrations, including one that provides clues of a Late Pleistocene Australasian genetic signal, as well as a later Mesoamerican-related expansion. These led to complex and dynamic population histories from North to South America.〈/p〉

Description: Studies of the peopling of the Americas have focused on the timing and number of initial migrations. Less attention has been paid to the subsequent spread of people within the Americas. We sequenced 15 ancient human genomes spanning from Alaska to Patagonia; six are ≥10,000 years old (up to ~18 x coverage). All are most closely related to Native Americans, including those from an Ancient Beringian individual and two morphologically distinct "Paleoamericans." We found evidence of rapid dispersal and early diversification that included previously unknown groups as people moved south. This resulted in multiple independent, geographically uneven migrations, including one that provides clues of a Late Pleistocene Australasian genetic signal, as well as a later Mesoamerican-related expansion. These led to complex and dynamic population histories from North to South America.