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

Nature

Volumn 513, Issue 7518, 2014, Pages 409-413

  Lazaridis, Iosif ^a,b   Patterson, Nick ^b   Mittnik, Alissa ^c   Renaud, Gabriel ^d   Mallick, Swapan ^a,b   Kirsanow, Karola ^e   Sudmant, Peter H ^f   Schraiber, Joshua G ^f,g   Castellano, Sergi ^d   Lipson, Mark ^h   Berger, Bonnie ^b,h   Economou, Christos ⁱ   Bollongino, Ruth ^e   Fu, Qiaomei ^a,d,j   Bos, Kirsten I ^c   Nordenfelt, Susanne ^a,b   Li, Heng ^a,b   De Filippo, Cesare ^d   Prüfer, Kay ^d   Sawyer, Susanna ^d   Posth, Cosimo ^c   Haak, Wolfgang ^k   Hallgren, Fredrik ^l   Fornander, Elin ^l   Rohland, Nadin ^a,b   Delsate, Dominique ^m,n   Francken, Michael ^c   Guinet, Jean Michel ^m   Wahl, Joachim ^o   Ayodo, George ^p   Babiker, Hamza A ^q,r   Bailliet, Graciela ^s   Balanovska, Elena ^t   Balanovsky, Oleg ^t,u   Barrantes, Ramiro ^v   Bedoya, Gabriel ^w   Ben Ami, Haim ^x   Bene, Judit ^y   Berrada, Fouad ^z   Bravi, Claudio M ^s   Brisighelli, Francesca ^aa   Busby, George B J ^ab,ac   Cali, Francesco ^ad   Churnosov, Mikhail ^ae   Cole, David E C ^af   Corach, Daniel ^ag   Damba, Larissa ^ah   Van Driem, George ^ai   Dryomov, Stanislav ^aj   Dugoujon, Jean Michel ^ak   Fedorova, Sardana A ^al   Gallego Romero, Irene ^am   Gubina, Marina ^ah   Hammer, Michael ^an   Henn, Brenna M ^ao   Hervig, Tor ^ap   Hodoglugil, Ugur ^aq   Jha, Aashish R ^am   Karachanak Yankova, Sena ^ar   Khusainova, Rita ^as,at   Khusnutdinova, Elza ^as,at   Kittles, Rick ^au   Kivisild, Toomas ^av   Klitz, William ^g   Kučinskas, Vaidutis ^aw   Kushniarevich, Alena ^ax   Laredj, Leila ^ay   Litvinov, Sergey ^as,at,ax   Loukidis, Theologos ^az,cg   Mahley, Robert W ^ba   Melegh, Béla ^y   Metspalu, Ene ^bb   Molina, Julio ^bc   Mountain, Joanna ^bd   Näkkäläjärvi, Klemetti ^be   Nesheva, Desislava ^ar   Nyambo, Thomas ^bf   Osipova, Ludmila ^ah   Parik, Jüri ^bb   Platonov, Fedor ^al   Posukh, Olga ^ah   Romano, Valentino ^bg   Rothhammer, Francisco ^bh,bi,bj   Rudan, Igor ^bk   Ruizbakiev, Ruslan ^bl   Sahakyan, Hovhannes ^ax,bm   Sajantila, Antti ^bn,bo   Salas, Antonio ^bp   Starikovskaya, Elena B ^aj   Tarekegn, Ayele ^bq   Toncheva, Draga ^ar   Turdikulova, Shahlo ^bl   Uktveryte, Ingrida ^aw   Utevska, Olga ^br   Vasquez, René ^bs,bt   Villena, Mercedes ^bs,bt   Voevoda, Mikhail ^ah,bu,bv   Winkler, Cheryl A ^bw   Yepiskoposyan, Levon ^bm   Zalloua, Pierre ^bx,by   Zemunik, Tatijana ^bz   Cooper, Alan ^k   Capelli, Cristian ^ab   Thomas, Mark G ^az   Ruiz Linares, Andres ^az   Tishkoff, Sarah A ^ca   Singh, Lalji ^cb,ch   Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^cb   Villems, Richard ^ax,bb,cc   Comas, David ^cd   Sukernik, Rem ^aj   Metspalu, Mait ^ax   Meyer, Matthias ^d   Eichler, Evan E ^f   Burger, Joachim ^e   Slatkin, Montgomery ^g   Pääbo, Svante ^d   Kelso, Janet ^d   Reich, David ^a,b,ce   Krause, Johannes ^c,cf   more..

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^j INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^l Cultural Heritage Foundation   (Sweden)

^m National Museum of Natural History   (Luxembourg)

ⁿ Museum of Natural History Luxembourg   (Luxembourg)

^o State Office for Cultural Heritage Management Baden Wuerttemberg   (Germany)

^p Center for Global Health and Child Development   (Kenya)

^q UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^r SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^s Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste   (Argentina)

^t RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^u VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^v UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^w UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^x Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

^y UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^z AL AKHAWAYN UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^aa CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ad OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^ae BELGOROD STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^af UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^ag UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^ah INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^aj INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^ak Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier   (France)

^al NORTH EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^am UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^an UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^ao STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ap UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^aq NextBio   (United States)

^ar MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^as INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^at Birsk Branch of Federal State Budgetary Educational Establishment of Higher Education Bashkir State University   (Russian Federation)

^au UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^av UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^aw VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^ax UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^ay INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^az UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ba GLADSTONE INSTITUTES   (United States)

^bb UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^bc Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^bd Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences ^*  (United States)

^be UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^bf MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^bg UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^bh UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

^bi UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^bj Centro de Investigaciones del Hombre en el Desierto   (Chile)

^bk UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^bl S YU YUNUSOV INSTITUTE OF THE CHEMISTRY OF PLANT SUBSTANCES   (Uzbekistan)

^bm INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

^bn UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^bo UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^bp UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^bq Research Fellow Henry Stewart Group Russell House   (United Kingdom)

^br V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^bs UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^bt Universidad Autónoma Tomás Frías   (Bolivia)

^bu ENERGY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^bv NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^bw NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^bx LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^by HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^bz UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^ca UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^cb CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^cc ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^cd UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^ce HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^cf MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^cg Amgen   (Greece)

^ch BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

COMMON ANCESTRY; GENOME; HERITABILITY;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; LUXEMBOURG; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWEDEN; AGRICULTURE; ASIA; CAUCASIAN; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; GENETICS; HISTORY; MANPOWER; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EUROPE;

AGRICULTURE; ASIA; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907803675     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13673     Document Type: Article

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