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Authors: | Broushaki, Farnaz Thomas, Mark G. Link, Vivian López, Saioa van Dorp, Lucy Kirsanow, Karola Hofmanová, Zuzana Diekmann, Yoan Cassidy, Lara M. Díez-del-Molino, David Kousathanas, Athanasios Sell, Christian Robson, Harry K. Martiniano, Rui Blöcher, Jens Scheu, Amelie Kreutzer, Susanne Bollongino, Ruth Bobo, Dean Davoudi, Hossein Munoz, Olivia Currat, Mathias Abdi, Kamyar Biglari, Fereidoun Craig, Oliver E. Bradley, Daniel G. Shennan, Stephen Veeramah, Krishna R. Mashkour, Marjan Wegmann, Daniel Hellenthal, Garrett Burger, Joachim |
Title: | Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent |
Online publication date: | 7-Dec-2022 |
Year of first publication: | 2016 |
Language: | english |
Abstract: | We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously uncharacterized population that is neither ancestral to the first European farmers nor has contributed substantially to the ancestry of modern Europeans. These people are estimated to have separated from Early Neolithic farmers in Anatolia some 46,000 to 77,000 years ago and show affinities to modern-day Pakistani and Afghan populations, but particularly to Iranian Zoroastrians. We conclude that multiple, genetically differentiated hunter-gatherer populations adopted farming in southwestern Asia, that components of pre-Neolithic population structure were preserved as farming spread into neighboring regions, and that the Zagros region was the cradle of eastward expansion. |
DDC: | 570 Biowissenschaften 570 Life sciences |
Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Department: | FB 10 Biologie |
Place: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8494 |
Version: | Published version |
Publication type: | Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
License: | In Copyright |
Information on rights of use: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Journal: | Science 353 6298 |
Pages or article number: | 499 503 |
Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
Publisher place: | Washington, DC |
Issue date: | 2016 |
ISSN: | 0036-8075 |
Publisher URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf7943 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1126/science.aaf7943 |
Appears in collections: | DFG-OA-Publizieren (2012 - 2017) |
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