[HTML][HTML] Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter?

EML Scerri, MG Thomas, A Manica, P Gunz… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
We challenge the view that our species, Homo sapiens, evolved within a single population
and/or region of Africa. The chronology and physical diversity of Pleistocene human fossils …

Toward a new history and geography of human genes informed by ancient DNA

JK Pickrell, D Reich - Trends in Genetics, 2014 - cell.com
Genetic information contains a record of the history of our species, and technological
advances have transformed our ability to access this record. Many studies have used …

[图书][B] Who we are and how we got here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past

D Reich - 2018 - books.google.com
The past few years have witnessed a revolution in our ability to obtain DNA from ancient
humans. This important new data has added to our knowledge from archaeology and …

Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

I Lazaridis, D Nadel, G Rollefson, DC Merrett… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 44 ancient Near Easterners ranging in time
between~ 12,000 and 1,400 bc, from Natufian hunter–gatherers to Bronze Age farmers. We …

Inference of population splits and mixtures from genome-wide allele frequency data

J Pickrell, J Pritchard - Nature Precedings, 2012 - nature.com
Many aspects of the historical relationships between populations in a species are reflected
in genetic data. Inferring these relationships from genetic data, however, remains a …

Characterization of Greater Middle Eastern genetic variation for enhanced disease gene discovery

EM Scott, A Halees, Y Itan, EG Spencer, Y He… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The Greater Middle East (GME) has been a central hub of human migration and
population admixture. The tradition of consanguinity, variably practiced in the Persian Gulf …

Evaluating the use of ABBA–BABA statistics to locate introgressed loci

SH Martin, JW Davey, CD Jiggins - Molecular biology and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Several methods have been proposed to test for introgression across genomes. One method
tests for a genome-wide excess of shared derived alleles between taxa using Patterson's D …

A genetic atlas of human admixture history

G Hellenthal, GBJ Busby, G Band, JF Wilson, C Capelli… - science, 2014 - science.org
Modern genetic data combined with appropriate statistical methods have the potential to
contribute substantially to our understanding of human history. We have developed an …

The genetics of Mexico recapitulates Native American substructure and affects biomedical traits

A Moreno-Estrada, CR Gignoux, JC Fernández-López… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Mexico harbors great cultural and ethnic diversity, yet fine-scale patterns of human genome-
wide variation from this region remain largely uncharacterized. We studied genomic …

The genetic structure of the Turkish population reveals high levels of variation and admixture

ME Kars, AN Başak, OE Onat… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The construction of population-based variomes has contributed substantially to our
understanding of the genetic basis of human inherited disease. Here, we investigated the …