Maternal ancestry and population history from whole mitochondrial genomes

T Kivisild - Investigative genetics, 2015 - Springer
MtDNA has been a widely used tool in human evolutionary and population genetic studies
over the past three decades. Its maternal inheritance and lack of recombination have offered …

Out-of-Africa, the peopling of continents and islands: tracing uniparental gene trees across the map

S Oppenheimer - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Genetic relationships between human groups were first studied by comparisons of relative
allele frequency at multiple loci. Geographical study of detailed, highly resolved trees of …

Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

W Haak, I Lazaridis, N Patterson, N Rohland, S Mallick… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000–3,000 years
ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms …

Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

I Lazaridis, N Patterson, A Mittnik, G Renaud, S Mallick… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
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 …

Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

L Pagani, DJ Lawson, E Jagoda, A Mörseburg… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
High-coverage whole-genome sequence studies have so far focused on a limited number of
geographically restricted populations,,,, or been targeted at specific diseases, such as …

Pleistocene mitochondrial genomes suggest a single major dispersal of non-Africans and a Late Glacial population turnover in Europe

C Posth, G Renaud, A Mittnik, DG Drucker, H Rougier… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of
separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models …

DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

Q Fu, M Meyer, X Gao, U Stenzel… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Hominins with morphology similar to present-day humans appear in the fossil record across
Eurasia between 40,000 and 50,000 y ago. The genetic relationships between these early …

Inferring admixture histories of human populations using linkage disequilibrium

PR Loh, M Lipson, N Patterson, P Moorjani… - Genetics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Long-range migrations and the resulting admixtures between populations have been
important forces shaping human genetic diversity. Most existing methods for detecting and …

Uganda genome resource enables insights into population history and genomic discovery in Africa

D Gurdasani, T Carstensen, S Fatumo, G Chen… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genomic studies in African populations provide unique opportunities to understand disease
etiology, human diversity, and population history. In the largest study of its kind, comprising …

Ancient DNA reveals key stages in the formation of central European mitochondrial genetic diversity

G Brandt, W Haak, CJ Adler, C Roth, A Szécsényi-Nagy… - Science, 2013 - science.org
The processes that shaped modern European mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation remain
unclear. The initial peopling by Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers~ 42,000 years ago and the …