Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 274-282

  Haber, Marc ^a   Doumet Serhal, Claude ^b   Scheib, Christiana ^c   Xue, Yali ^a   Danecek, Petr ^a   Mezzavilla, Massimo ^a   Youhanna, Sonia ^d   Martiniano, Rui ^a   Prado Martinez, Javier ^a   Szpak, Michał ^a   Matisoo Smith, Elizabeth ^e   Schutkowski, Holger ^f   Mikulski, Richard ^f   Zalloua, Pierre ^g,h   Kivisild, Toomas ^c   Tyler Smith, Chris ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b The Sidon excavation   (Lebanon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^h HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

aDNA; Bronze Age; Lebanon; Near East; Phoenicians; population genetic history; Sidon; whole genome sequences

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BRONZE AGE; CULTURAL FACTOR; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; IRANIAN PEOPLE; LEBANESE; LEBANON; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESOPOTAMIA; NEOLITHIC; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; URBAN POPULATION; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LEBANON; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE;

EID: 85026216740     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.06.013     Document Type: Article

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