Ancient DNA analysis

L Orlando, R Allaby, P Skoglund… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

Insights into human history from the first decade of ancient human genomics

Y Liu, X Mao, J Krause, Q Fu - Science, 2021 - science.org
Recent advancements in DNA sequencing technologies and laboratory preparation
protocols have rapidly expanded the scope of ancient DNA research over the past decade …

The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans.
While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the …

Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

CC Wang, HY Yeh, AN Popov, HQ Zhang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people,. Here we report genome …

On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics

R Maier, P Flegontov, O Flegontova, U Işıldak… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Our understanding of population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting admixture
graphs (AGs) to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages

M Robbeets, R Bouckaert, M Conte, A Savelyev, T Li… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese,
Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian …

The deep population history of northern East Asia from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene

X Mao, H Zhang, S Qiao, Y Liu, F Chang, P Xie… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Northern East Asia was inhabited by modern humans as early as 40 thousand
years ago (ka), as demonstrated by the Tianyuan individual. Using genome-wide data …

Genomic insights into population history and biological adaptation in Oceania

J Choin, J Mendoza-Revilla, LR Arauna… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The Pacific region is of major importance for addressing questions regarding human
dispersals, interactions with archaic hominins and natural selection processes. However, the …

Human genetic history on the Tibetan Plateau in the past 5100 years

H Wang, MA Yang, S Wangdue, H Lu, H Chen, L Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Using genome-wide data of 89 ancient individuals dated to 5100 to 100 years before the
present (BP) from 29 sites across the Tibetan Plateau, we found plateau-specific ancestry …

Human population history at the crossroads of East and Southeast Asia since 11,000 years ago

T Wang, W Wang, G Xie, Z Li, X Fan, Q Yang, X Wu… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Past human genetic diversity and migration between southern China and Southeast Asia
have not been well characterized, in part due to poor preservation of ancient DNA in hot and …