A genetic method for dating ancient genomes provides a direct estimate of human generation interval in the last 45,000 years

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

Volumn 113, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 5652-5657

  Moorjani, Priya ^a,b   Sankararaman, Sriram ^c,d,e   Fu, Qiaomei ^c,f   Przeworski, Molly ^a   Patterson, Nick ^b   Reich, David ^b,c,g  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^g HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Branch shortening; Generation interval; Molecular clock

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ALLELE; ANCIENT GENOME; ARTICLE; DIPLOIDY; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENERATION INTERVAL; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTORY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; NATURAL SELECTION; PALEOLITHIC; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; GENETIC PROCEDURES; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; NEANDERTHALS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EID: 84969871881     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1514696113     Document Type: Article

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