Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean

ML Antonio, Z Gao, HM Moots, M Lucci, F Candilio… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Ancient Rome was the capital of an empire of~ 70 million inhabitants, but little is known
about the genetics of ancient Romans. Here we present 127 genomes from 29 …

Demographic history mediates the effect of stratification on polygenic scores

AA Zaidi, I Mathieson - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Population stratification continues to bias the results of genome-wide association studies
(GWAS). When these results are used to construct polygenic scores, even subtle biases can …

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 …

Being a dog: a review of the domestication process

D Tancredi, I Cardinali - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The process of canine domestication represents certainly one of the most interesting
questions that evolutionary biology aims to address. A “multiphase” view of this process is …

The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect

C Posth, V Zaro, MA Spyrou, S Vai… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The origin, development, and legacy of the enigmatic Etruscan civilization from the central
region of the Italian peninsula known as Etruria have been debated for centuries. Here we …

The spread of steppe and Iranian-related ancestry in the islands of the western Mediterranean

DM Fernandes, A Mittnik, I Olalde, I Lazaridis… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Steppe-pastoralist-related ancestry reached Central Europe by at least 2500 bc, whereas
Iranian farmer-related ancestry was present in Aegean Europe by at least 1900 bc …

The diverse genetic origins of a Classical period Greek army

LJ Reitsema, A Mittnik, B Kyle… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Trade and colonization caused an unprecedented increase in Mediterranean human
mobility in the first millennium BCE. Often seen as a dividing force, warfare is in fact another …

High-coverage genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry

K Wang, K Prüfer, B Krause-Kyora, A Childebayeva… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The Tyrolean Iceman is known as one of the oldest human glacier mummies,
directly dated to 3350–3120 calibrated BCE. A previously published low-coverage genome …

Whole-genome sequencing analysis of semi-supercentenarians

P Garagnani, J Marquis, M Delledonne, C Pirazzini… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Extreme longevity is the paradigm of healthy aging as individuals who reached the extreme
decades of human life avoided or largely postponed all major age-related diseases. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula

T Saupe, F Montinaro, C Scaggion, N Carrara… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Across Europe, the genetics of the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age transition is increasingly
characterized in terms of an influx of Steppe-related ancestry. The effect of this major shift on …