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

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 analyzed these and other ancient genomes1–4 with 2,345 contemporary humans to show that most present Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated...

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Main Authors: Lazaridis, Iosif, Patterson, Nick, Mittnik, Alissa, Renaud, Gabriel, Mallick, Swapan, Kirsanow, Karola, Sudmant, Peter H., Schraiber, Joshua G., Castellano, Sergi, Lipson, Mark, Berger, Bonnie, Economou, Christos, Bollongino, Ruth, Fu, Qiaomei, Bos, Kirsten I., Nordenfelt, Susanne, Li, Heng, de Filippo, Cesare, Prüfer, Kay, Sawyer, Susanna, Posth, Cosimo, Haak, Wolfgang, Hallgren, Fredrik, Fornander, Elin, Rohland, Nadin, Delsate, Dominique, Francken, Michael, Guinet, Jean-Michel, Wahl, Joachim, Ayodo, George, Babiker, Hamza A., Bailliet, Graciela, Balanovska, Elena, Balanovsky, Oleg, Barrantes, Ramiro, Bedoya, Gabriel, Ben-Ami, Haim, Bene, Judit, Berrada, Fouad, Bravi, Claudio M., Brisighelli, Francesca, Busby, George B. J., Cali, Francesco, Churnosov, Mikhail, Cole, David E. C., Corach, Daniel, Damba, Larissa, van Driem, George, Dryomov, Stanislav, Dugoujon, Jean-Michel, Fedorova, Sardana A., Romero, Irene Gallego, Gubina, Marina, Hammer, Michael, Henn, Brenna M., Hervig, Tor, Hodoglugil, Ugur, Jha, Aashish R., Karachanak-Yankova, Sena, Khusainova, Rita, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Kittles, Rick, Kivisild, Toomas, Klitz, William, Kučinskas, Vaidutis, Kushniarevich, Alena, Laredj, Leila, Litvinov, Sergey, Loukidis, Theologos, Mahley, Robert W., Melegh, Béla, Metspalu, Ene, Molina, Julio, Mountain, Joanna, Näkkäläjärvi, Klemetti, Nesheva, Desislava, Nyambo, Thomas, Osipova, Ludmila, Parik, Jüri, Platonov, Fedor, Posukh, Olga, Romano, Valentino, Rothhammer, Francisco, Rudan, Igor, Ruizbakiev, Ruslan, Sahakyan, Hovhannes, Sajantila, Antti, Salas, Antonio, Starikovskaya, Elena B., Tarekegn, Ayele, Toncheva, Draga, Turdikulova, Shahlo, Uktveryte, Ingrida, Utevska, Olga, Vasquez, René, Villena, Mercedes, Voevoda, Mikhail, Winkler, Cheryl, Yepiskoposyan, Levon, Zalloua, Pierre, Zemunik, Tatijana, Cooper, Alan, Capelli, Cristian, Thomas, Mark G., Ruiz-Linares, Andres, Tishkoff, Sarah A., Singh, Lalji, Thangaraj, Kumarasamy, Villems, Richard, Comas, David, Sukernik, Rem, Metspalu, Mait, Meyer, Matthias, Eichler, Evan E., Burger, Joachim, Slatkin, Montgomery, Pääbo, Svante, Kelso, Janet, Reich, David, Krause, Johannes
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Published: 2014
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spelling pubmed-41705742015-03-18 Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans Lazaridis, Iosif Patterson, Nick Mittnik, Alissa Renaud, Gabriel Mallick, Swapan Kirsanow, Karola Sudmant, Peter H. Schraiber, Joshua G. Castellano, Sergi Lipson, Mark Berger, Bonnie Economou, Christos Bollongino, Ruth Fu, Qiaomei Bos, Kirsten I. Nordenfelt, Susanne Li, Heng de Filippo, Cesare Prüfer, Kay Sawyer, Susanna Posth, Cosimo Haak, Wolfgang Hallgren, Fredrik Fornander, Elin Rohland, Nadin Delsate, Dominique Francken, Michael Guinet, Jean-Michel Wahl, Joachim Ayodo, George Babiker, Hamza A. Bailliet, Graciela Balanovska, Elena Balanovsky, Oleg Barrantes, Ramiro Bedoya, Gabriel Ben-Ami, Haim Bene, Judit Berrada, Fouad Bravi, Claudio M. Brisighelli, Francesca Busby, George B. J. Cali, Francesco Churnosov, Mikhail Cole, David E. C. Corach, Daniel Damba, Larissa van Driem, George Dryomov, Stanislav Dugoujon, Jean-Michel Fedorova, Sardana A. Romero, Irene Gallego Gubina, Marina Hammer, Michael Henn, Brenna M. Hervig, Tor Hodoglugil, Ugur Jha, Aashish R. Karachanak-Yankova, Sena Khusainova, Rita Khusnutdinova, Elza Kittles, Rick Kivisild, Toomas Klitz, William Kučinskas, Vaidutis Kushniarevich, Alena Laredj, Leila Litvinov, Sergey Loukidis, Theologos Mahley, Robert W. Melegh, Béla Metspalu, Ene Molina, Julio Mountain, Joanna Näkkäläjärvi, Klemetti Nesheva, Desislava Nyambo, Thomas Osipova, Ludmila Parik, Jüri Platonov, Fedor Posukh, Olga Romano, Valentino Rothhammer, Francisco Rudan, Igor Ruizbakiev, Ruslan Sahakyan, Hovhannes Sajantila, Antti Salas, Antonio Starikovskaya, Elena B. Tarekegn, Ayele Toncheva, Draga Turdikulova, Shahlo Uktveryte, Ingrida Utevska, Olga Vasquez, René Villena, Mercedes Voevoda, Mikhail Winkler, Cheryl Yepiskoposyan, Levon Zalloua, Pierre Zemunik, Tatijana Cooper, Alan Capelli, Cristian Thomas, Mark G. Ruiz-Linares, Andres Tishkoff, Sarah A. Singh, Lalji Thangaraj, Kumarasamy Villems, Richard Comas, David Sukernik, Rem Metspalu, Mait Meyer, Matthias Eichler, Evan E. Burger, Joachim Slatkin, Montgomery Pääbo, Svante Kelso, Janet Reich, David Krause, Johannes Article 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 analyzed these and other ancient genomes1–4 with 2,345 contemporary humans to show that most present Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: West European Hunter-Gatherers (WHG), who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; Ancient North Eurasians (ANE) related to Upper Paleolithic Siberians3, who contributed to both Europeans and Near Easterners; and Early European Farmers (EEF), who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harbored WHG-related ancestry. We model these populations’ deep relationships and show that EEF had ~44% ancestry from a “Basal Eurasian” population that split prior to the diversification of other non-African lineages. 2014-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4170574/ /pubmed/25230663 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13673 Text en http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms Users may view, print, copy, and download text and data-mine the content in such documents, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full Conditions of use:http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms
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author Lazaridis, Iosif
Patterson, Nick
Mittnik, Alissa
Renaud, Gabriel
Mallick, Swapan
Kirsanow, Karola
Sudmant, Peter H.
Schraiber, Joshua G.
Castellano, Sergi
Lipson, Mark
Berger, Bonnie
Economou, Christos
Bollongino, Ruth
Fu, Qiaomei
Bos, Kirsten I.
Nordenfelt, Susanne
Li, Heng
de Filippo, Cesare
Prüfer, Kay
Sawyer, Susanna
Posth, Cosimo
Haak, Wolfgang
Hallgren, Fredrik
Fornander, Elin
Rohland, Nadin
Delsate, Dominique
Francken, Michael
Guinet, Jean-Michel
Wahl, Joachim
Ayodo, George
Babiker, Hamza A.
Bailliet, Graciela
Balanovska, Elena
Balanovsky, Oleg
Barrantes, Ramiro
Bedoya, Gabriel
Ben-Ami, Haim
Bene, Judit
Berrada, Fouad
Bravi, Claudio M.
Brisighelli, Francesca
Busby, George B. J.
Cali, Francesco
Churnosov, Mikhail
Cole, David E. C.
Corach, Daniel
Damba, Larissa
van Driem, George
Dryomov, Stanislav
Dugoujon, Jean-Michel
Fedorova, Sardana A.
Romero, Irene Gallego
Gubina, Marina
Hammer, Michael
Henn, Brenna M.
Hervig, Tor
Hodoglugil, Ugur
Jha, Aashish R.
Karachanak-Yankova, Sena
Khusainova, Rita
Khusnutdinova, Elza
Kittles, Rick
Kivisild, Toomas
Klitz, William
Kučinskas, Vaidutis
Kushniarevich, Alena
Laredj, Leila
Litvinov, Sergey
Loukidis, Theologos
Mahley, Robert W.
Melegh, Béla
Metspalu, Ene
Molina, Julio
Mountain, Joanna
Näkkäläjärvi, Klemetti
Nesheva, Desislava
Nyambo, Thomas
Osipova, Ludmila
Parik, Jüri
Platonov, Fedor
Posukh, Olga
Romano, Valentino
Rothhammer, Francisco
Rudan, Igor
Ruizbakiev, Ruslan
Sahakyan, Hovhannes
Sajantila, Antti
Salas, Antonio
Starikovskaya, Elena B.
Tarekegn, Ayele
Toncheva, Draga
Turdikulova, Shahlo
Uktveryte, Ingrida
Utevska, Olga
Vasquez, René
Villena, Mercedes
Voevoda, Mikhail
Winkler, Cheryl
Yepiskoposyan, Levon
Zalloua, Pierre
Zemunik, Tatijana
Cooper, Alan
Capelli, Cristian
Thomas, Mark G.
Ruiz-Linares, Andres
Tishkoff, Sarah A.
Singh, Lalji
Thangaraj, Kumarasamy
Villems, Richard
Comas, David
Sukernik, Rem
Metspalu, Mait
Meyer, Matthias
Eichler, Evan E.
Burger, Joachim
Slatkin, Montgomery
Pääbo, Svante
Kelso, Janet
Reich, David
Krause, Johannes
spellingShingle Lazaridis, Iosif
Patterson, Nick
Mittnik, Alissa
Renaud, Gabriel
Mallick, Swapan
Kirsanow, Karola
Sudmant, Peter H.
Schraiber, Joshua G.
Castellano, Sergi
Lipson, Mark
Berger, Bonnie
Economou, Christos
Bollongino, Ruth
Fu, Qiaomei
Bos, Kirsten I.
Nordenfelt, Susanne
Li, Heng
de Filippo, Cesare
Prüfer, Kay
Sawyer, Susanna
Posth, Cosimo
Haak, Wolfgang
Hallgren, Fredrik
Fornander, Elin
Rohland, Nadin
Delsate, Dominique
Francken, Michael
Guinet, Jean-Michel
Wahl, Joachim
Ayodo, George
Babiker, Hamza A.
Bailliet, Graciela
Balanovska, Elena
Balanovsky, Oleg
Barrantes, Ramiro
Bedoya, Gabriel
Ben-Ami, Haim
Bene, Judit
Berrada, Fouad
Bravi, Claudio M.
Brisighelli, Francesca
Busby, George B. J.
Cali, Francesco
Churnosov, Mikhail
Cole, David E. C.
Corach, Daniel
Damba, Larissa
van Driem, George
Dryomov, Stanislav
Dugoujon, Jean-Michel
Fedorova, Sardana A.
Romero, Irene Gallego
Gubina, Marina
Hammer, Michael
Henn, Brenna M.
Hervig, Tor
Hodoglugil, Ugur
Jha, Aashish R.
Karachanak-Yankova, Sena
Khusainova, Rita
Khusnutdinova, Elza
Kittles, Rick
Kivisild, Toomas
Klitz, William
Kučinskas, Vaidutis
Kushniarevich, Alena
Laredj, Leila
Litvinov, Sergey
Loukidis, Theologos
Mahley, Robert W.
Melegh, Béla
Metspalu, Ene
Molina, Julio
Mountain, Joanna
Näkkäläjärvi, Klemetti
Nesheva, Desislava
Nyambo, Thomas
Osipova, Ludmila
Parik, Jüri
Platonov, Fedor
Posukh, Olga
Romano, Valentino
Rothhammer, Francisco
Rudan, Igor
Ruizbakiev, Ruslan
Sahakyan, Hovhannes
Sajantila, Antti
Salas, Antonio
Starikovskaya, Elena B.
Tarekegn, Ayele
Toncheva, Draga
Turdikulova, Shahlo
Uktveryte, Ingrida
Utevska, Olga
Vasquez, René
Villena, Mercedes
Voevoda, Mikhail
Winkler, Cheryl
Yepiskoposyan, Levon
Zalloua, Pierre
Zemunik, Tatijana
Cooper, Alan
Capelli, Cristian
Thomas, Mark G.
Ruiz-Linares, Andres
Tishkoff, Sarah A.
Singh, Lalji
Thangaraj, Kumarasamy
Villems, Richard
Comas, David
Sukernik, Rem
Metspalu, Mait
Meyer, Matthias
Eichler, Evan E.
Burger, Joachim
Slatkin, Montgomery
Pääbo, Svante
Kelso, Janet
Reich, David
Krause, Johannes
Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
author_facet Lazaridis, Iosif
Patterson, Nick
Mittnik, Alissa
Renaud, Gabriel
Mallick, Swapan
Kirsanow, Karola
Sudmant, Peter H.
Schraiber, Joshua G.
Castellano, Sergi
Lipson, Mark
Berger, Bonnie
Economou, Christos
Bollongino, Ruth
Fu, Qiaomei
Bos, Kirsten I.
Nordenfelt, Susanne
Li, Heng
de Filippo, Cesare
Prüfer, Kay
Sawyer, Susanna
Posth, Cosimo
Haak, Wolfgang
Hallgren, Fredrik
Fornander, Elin
Rohland, Nadin
Delsate, Dominique
Francken, Michael
Guinet, Jean-Michel
Wahl, Joachim
Ayodo, George
Babiker, Hamza A.
Bailliet, Graciela
Balanovska, Elena
Balanovsky, Oleg
Barrantes, Ramiro
Bedoya, Gabriel
Ben-Ami, Haim
Bene, Judit
Berrada, Fouad
Bravi, Claudio M.
Brisighelli, Francesca
Busby, George B. J.
Cali, Francesco
Churnosov, Mikhail
Cole, David E. C.
Corach, Daniel
Damba, Larissa
van Driem, George
Dryomov, Stanislav
Dugoujon, Jean-Michel
Fedorova, Sardana A.
Romero, Irene Gallego
Gubina, Marina
Hammer, Michael
Henn, Brenna M.
Hervig, Tor
Hodoglugil, Ugur
Jha, Aashish R.
Karachanak-Yankova, Sena
Khusainova, Rita
Khusnutdinova, Elza
Kittles, Rick
Kivisild, Toomas
Klitz, William
Kučinskas, Vaidutis
Kushniarevich, Alena
Laredj, Leila
Litvinov, Sergey
Loukidis, Theologos
Mahley, Robert W.
Melegh, Béla
Metspalu, Ene
Molina, Julio
Mountain, Joanna
Näkkäläjärvi, Klemetti
Nesheva, Desislava
Nyambo, Thomas
Osipova, Ludmila
Parik, Jüri
Platonov, Fedor
Posukh, Olga
Romano, Valentino
Rothhammer, Francisco
Rudan, Igor
Ruizbakiev, Ruslan
Sahakyan, Hovhannes
Sajantila, Antti
Salas, Antonio
Starikovskaya, Elena B.
Tarekegn, Ayele
Toncheva, Draga
Turdikulova, Shahlo
Uktveryte, Ingrida
Utevska, Olga
Vasquez, René
Villena, Mercedes
Voevoda, Mikhail
Winkler, Cheryl
Yepiskoposyan, Levon
Zalloua, Pierre
Zemunik, Tatijana
Cooper, Alan
Capelli, Cristian
Thomas, Mark G.
Ruiz-Linares, Andres
Tishkoff, Sarah A.
Singh, Lalji
Thangaraj, Kumarasamy
Villems, Richard
Comas, David
Sukernik, Rem
Metspalu, Mait
Meyer, Matthias
Eichler, Evan E.
Burger, Joachim
Slatkin, Montgomery
Pääbo, Svante
Kelso, Janet
Reich, David
Krause, Johannes
author_sort Lazaridis, Iosif
title Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
title_short Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
title_full Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
title_fullStr Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
title_full_unstemmed Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
title_sort ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day europeans
description 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 analyzed these and other ancient genomes1–4 with 2,345 contemporary humans to show that most present Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: West European Hunter-Gatherers (WHG), who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; Ancient North Eurasians (ANE) related to Upper Paleolithic Siberians3, who contributed to both Europeans and Near Easterners; and Early European Farmers (EEF), who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harbored WHG-related ancestry. We model these populations’ deep relationships and show that EEF had ~44% ancestry from a “Basal Eurasian” population that split prior to the diversification of other non-African lineages.
publishDate 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170574/
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