A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

Nature

Volumn 538, Issue 7624, 2016, Pages 207-214

  Malaspinas, Anna Sapfo ^a,b,c   Westaway, Michael C ^d   Muller, Craig ^a   Sousa, Vitor C ^b,c   Lao, Oscar ^e,f   Alves, Isabel ^b,c,g   Bergström, Anders ^h   Athanasiadis, Georgios ⁱ   Cheng, Jade Y ^i,j   Crawford, Jacob E ^j,k   Heupink, Tim H ^d   MacHoldt, Enrico ^l   Peischl, Stephan ^b,c   Rasmussen, Simon ^m   Schiffels, Stephan ⁿ   Subramanian, Sankar ^d   Wright, Joanne L ^d   Albrechtsen, Anders ^o   Barbieri, Chiara ^l,n   Dupanloup, Isabelle ^b,c   Eriksson, Anders ^p,q   Margaryan, Ashot ^a   Moltke, Ida ^o   Pugach, Irina ^l   Korneliussen, Thorfinn S ^a   Levkivskyi, Ivan P ^r   Moreno Mayar, J Víctor ^a   Ni, Shengyu ^l   Racimo, Fernando ^j   Sikora, Martin ^a   Xue, Yali ^h   Aghakhanian, Farhang A ^s   Brucato, Nicolas ^t   Brunak, Søren ^o   Campos, Paula F ^a,u   Clark, Warren ^v   Ellingvåg, Sturla ^w   Fourmile, Gudjugudju ^x   Gerbault, Pascale ^y   Injie, Darren ^z   Koki, George ^aa   Leavesley, Matthew ^ab   Logan, Betty ^ac   Lynch, Aubrey ^ad   Matisoo Smith, Elizabeth A ^ae   McAllister, Peter J ^af   Mentzer, Alexander J ^ag   Metspalu, Mait ^ah   Migliano, Andrea B ^y   Murgha, Les ^af   Phipps, Maude E ^s   Pomat, William ^aa   Reynolds, Doc ^ai   Ricaut, Francois Xavier ^t   Siba, Peter ^aa   Thomas, Mark G ^y   Wales, Thomas ^af   Wall, Colleen Ma'Run ^af   Oppenheimer, Stephen J ^aj   Tyler Smith, Chris ^h   Durbin, Richard ^h   Dortch, Joe ^ak   Manica, Andrea ^p   Schierup, Mikkel H ⁱ   Foley, Robert A ^a,p   Lahr, Marta Mirazón ^a,p   Bowern, Claire ^al   Wall, Jeffrey D ^am   Mailund, Thomas ⁱ   Stoneking, Mark ^l   Nielsen, Rasmus ^a,j   Sandhu, Manjinder S ^h   Excoffier, Laurent ^b,c   Lambert, David M ^d   Willerslev, Eske ^a,h,p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^h WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k VERILY LIFE SCIENCES   (United States)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^m TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

ⁿ Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History ^*  (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^q KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^r ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^s MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^t UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^u UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^v National Parks and Wildlife   (Australia)

^w Explico Foundation   (Norway)

^x Giriwandi   (Australia)

^y UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^z Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research ^*  (Australia)

^aa PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^ab School of Humanities and Social Sciences   (Australia)

^ac Ngadju Conservation   (Australia)

^ad Estonian Biocentre ^*  (Australia)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^af Oxford University ^*  (Australia)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^ai Esperance Nyungar Elder   (Australia)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^al YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^am UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; GENE FLOW; GENOMICS; HOLOCENE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LANGUAGE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; AFRICA; ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; DESERT CLIMATE; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HISTORY; HUMAN GENOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; TASMANIA;

AUSTRALIA; NEW GUINEA; TASMANIA;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATASETS AS TOPIC; DESERT CLIMATE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NEW GUINEA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TASMANIA;

EID: 84991632770     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature18299     Document Type: Review

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