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Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians

View ORCID ProfileDiyendo Massilani, Laurits Skov, Mateja Hajdinjak, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Damdinsuren Tseveendorj, Seonbok Yi, Jungeun Lee, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Thibaut Devièse, Tom Higham, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter, Svante Pääbo
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.03.131995
Diyendo Massilani
1Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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  • For correspondence: diyendo_massilani@eva.mpg.de paabo@eva.mpg.de
Laurits Skov
1Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Mateja Hajdinjak
1Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
5The Francis Crick institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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Byambaa Gunchinsuren
2Institute of History and Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Jucov St 77, Ulaanbaatar 13343, Mongolia
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Damdinsuren Tseveendorj
2Institute of History and Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Jucov St 77, Ulaanbaatar 13343, Mongolia
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Seonbok Yi
3Department of Archaeology, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Korea
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Jungeun Lee
3Department of Archaeology, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 08826, Korea
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Sarah Nagel
1Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Birgit Nickel
1Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Thibaut Devièse
4Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom
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Tom Higham
4Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom
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Matthias Meyer
1Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Janet Kelso
1Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Benjamin M. Peter
1Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Svante Pääbo
1Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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  • For correspondence: diyendo_massilani@eva.mpg.de paabo@eva.mpg.de
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Abstract

We present analyses of the genome of a ~34,000-year-old hominin skull cap discovered in the Salkhit Valley in North East Mongolia. We show that this individual was a female member of a modern human population that, following the split between East and West Eurasians, experienced substantial gene flow from West Eurasians. Both she and a 40,000-year-old individual from Tianyuan outside Beijing carried genomic segments of Denisovan ancestry. These segments derive from the same Denisovan admixture event(s) that contributed to present-day mainland Asians but are distinct from the Denisovan DNA segments in present-day Papuans and Aboriginal Australians.

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Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians
Diyendo Massilani, Laurits Skov, Mateja Hajdinjak, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Damdinsuren Tseveendorj, Seonbok Yi, Jungeun Lee, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Thibaut Devièse, Tom Higham, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter, Svante Pääbo
bioRxiv 2020.06.03.131995; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.03.131995
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Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians
Diyendo Massilani, Laurits Skov, Mateja Hajdinjak, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Damdinsuren Tseveendorj, Seonbok Yi, Jungeun Lee, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Thibaut Devièse, Tom Higham, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter, Svante Pääbo
bioRxiv 2020.06.03.131995; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.03.131995

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