Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans.

LAZADIRIS I; PATTERSON N; MITTNIK A; RENAUD G; MALLICK S; KIRSANOW K; SUDMANT PH; SCHRAIBER JG; CASTELLANO S; LIPSON M; BERGER B; ECONOMOU C; BOLLONGINO R; FU Q; BOS KI; NORDENFELT S; LI H; DE FILIPPO C; PRÜFER K; SAWYER S; POSTH C; HAAK W; HALLGREN F; FORNANDER E; ROHLAND N; DELSATE D; FRANCKEN M; GUINET J-M; WAHL J; AYODO G; BABIKER H-A; BAILLIET G; ET AL

NATURE

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2014 vol. 18 p. 409 - 413

0028-0836

We sequenced the genomes of a ~7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ~8,000-year-old hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other ancient genomes1, 2, 3, 4 with 2,345 contemporary humans to show that most present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: west European hunter-gatherers, who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; ancient north Eurasians related to Upper Palaeolithic Siberians3, who contributed to both Europeans and Near Easterners; and early European farmers, who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harboured west European hunter-gatherer related ancestry. We model these populations? deep relationships and show that early European farmers had ~44% ancestry from a ?basal Eurasian? population that split before the diversification of other non-African lineages.