The Neolithic Transition in the Baltic Was Not Driven by Admixture with Early European Farmers

Current Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 576-582

  Pinhasi, Ron ^e,e   Zarina, Gunita ^c   Moiseyev, Vyacheslav ^d   Lightfoot, Emma ^b   Nigst, Philip R ^b   Manica, Andrea ^b,b   Bradley, Daniel G ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

ancient DNA; Baltic; genomics; Neolithic transition; population genetics; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DNA;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LATVIA; MIGRATION; UKRAINE;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DNA, ANCIENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FARMERS; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LATVIA; UKRAINE;

EID: 85011265368     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.060     Document Type: Article

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