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

IOSIF LAZARIDIS; NICK PATTERSON; ALISSA MITTNIK; GABRIEL RENAUD; KAROLA KIRSANOW; PETER H. SUDMANT; JOSHUA G. SCHRAIBER; SERGI CASTELLANO; MARK LIPSON; BONNIE BERGER; CHRISTOS ECONOMOU; RUTH BOLLONGINO; QIAOMEI FU; KIRSTEN I. BOS; SUSANNE NORDENFELT; HENG LI; CESARE DE FILIPPO; KAY PRÜFER; SUSANNA SAWYER; COSIMO POSTH; WOLFGANG HAAK; FREDRIK HALLGREN; ELIN FORNANDER; NADIN ROHLAND; DOMINIQUE DELSATE; MICHAEL FRANCKEN; JEAN-MICHEL GUINET; JOACHIM WAHL; GEORGE AYODO; HAMZA A. BABIKER; GRACIELA BAILLIET; ELENA BALANOVSKA; OLEG BALANOVSKY; RAMIRO BARRANTES; GABRIEL BEDOYA; HAIM BEN-AMI; JUDIT BENE; FOUAD BERRADA; CLAUDIO M. BRAVI; FRANCESCA BRISIGHELLI; GEORGE B. J. BUSBY; FRANCESCO CALI; MIKHAIL CHURNOSOV; DAVID E. C. COLE; DANIEL CORACH; LARISSA DAMBA; GEORGE VAN DRIEM; STANISLAV DRYOMOV; JEAN-MICHEL DUGOUJON; SARDANA A. FEDOROVA; IRENE GALLEGO ROMERO; MARINA GUBINA; MICHAEL HAMMER; BRENNA M. HENN; TOR HERVIG; AASHISH R. JHA; SENA KARACHANAK-YANKOVA; RITA KHUSAINOVA; ELZA KHUSNUTDINOVA; RICK KITTLES; TOOMAS K

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Lugar: Londres; Año: 2014 vol. 513 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 genomes 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 Siberians, 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.