Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 11917-11922

  Günther, Torsten ^a   Valdiosera, Cristina ^a,b,c   Malmström, Helena ^a   Ureña, Irene ^c,d   Rodriguez Varela, Ricardo ^c,d   Sverrisdóttir, Óddny Osk ^a   Daskalaki, Evangelia A ^a,e   Skoglund, Pontus ^a,e,f   Naidoo, Thijessen ^a   Svensson, Emma M ^a,g   De Castro, José María Bermúdez ^h   Carbonell, Eudald ⁱ   Dunn, Michael ^a   Storå, Jan ^e   Iriarte, Eneko ^j   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^c,d   Carretero, José Miguel ^c,j   Götherström, Anders ^e   Jakobsson, Mattias ^a   Willerslev, Eske ^k  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

ⁱ INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

Ancient DNAm; Human prehistory; Population genomics

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BASQUE (PEOPLE); CENTRAL ASIAN; CHALCOLITHIC; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE POOL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOME; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MESOLITHIC; MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP; MODERN TIMES; NEOLITHIC; NORTH AFRICAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DNA; FARMERS; GENE POOL; GENOME; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

EID: 84942924315     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509851112     Document Type: Article

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