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 …

Ancient genomics of modern humans: the first decade

P Skoglund, I Mathieson - Annual review of genomics and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The first decade of ancient genomics has revolutionized the study of human prehistory and
evolution. We review new insights based on prehistoric modern human genomes, including …

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 …

Palaeogenomics of upper palaeolithic to neolithic European hunter-gatherers

C Posth, H Yu, A Ghalichi, H Rougier, I Crevecoeur… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years,. Our knowledge of the
genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

ME Allentoft, M Sikora, A Refoyo-Martínez… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene,,,–.
Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced …

[HTML][HTML] Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe

RP Evershed, G Davey Smith, M Roffet-Salque… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations,
lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over …

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

I Olalde, S Mallick, N Patterson, N Rohland… - Science, 2019 - science.org
We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the
largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect …

The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

VM Narasimhan, N Patterson, P Moorjani, N Rohland… - Science, 2019 - science.org
RATIONALE To elucidate the extent to which the major cultural transformations of farming,
pastoralism, and shifts in the distribution of languages in Eurasia were accompanied by …