RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Parallel ancient genomic transects reveal complex population history of early European farmers
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 114488
DO 10.1101/114488
A1 Mark Lipson
A1 Anna Szécsényi-Nagy
A1 Swapan Mallick
A1 Annamária Pósa
A1 Balázs Stégmár
A1 Victoria Keerl
A1 Nadin Rohland
A1 Kristin Stewardson
A1 Matthew Ferry
A1 Megan Michel
A1 Jonas Oppenheimer
A1 Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht
A1 Eadaoin Harney
A1 Susanne Nordenfelt
A1 Bastien Llamas
A1 Balázs Gusztáv Mende
A1 Kitti Köhler
A1 Krisztián Oross
A1 Mária Bondár
A1 Tibor Marton
A1 Anett Osztás
A1 János Jakucs
A1 Tibor Paluch
A1 Ferenc Horváth
A1 Piroska Csengeri
A1 Judit Koós
A1 Katalin Sebők
A1 Alexandra Anders
A1 Pál Raczky
A1 Judit Regenye
A1 Judit P. Barna
A1 Szilvia Fábián
A1 Gábor Serlegi
A1 Zoltán Toldi
A1 Emese Gyöngyvér Nagy
A1 János Dani
A1 Erika Molnár
A1 György Pálfi
A1 Lászlò Márk
A1 Béla Melegh
A1 Zsolt Bánfai
A1 Javier Fernández-Eraso
A1 José Antonio Mujika-Alustiza
A1 Carmen Alonso Fernández
A1 Javier Jiménez Echevarría
A1 Ruth Bollongino
A1 Jörg Orschiedt
A1 Kerstin Schierhold
A1 Harald Meller
A1 Alan Cooper
A1 Joachim Burger
A1 Eszter Bánffy
A1 Kurt W. Alt
A1 Carles Lalueza-Fox
A1 Wolfgang Haak
A1 David Reich
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/03/06/114488.abstract
AB Ancient DNA studies have established that European Neolithic populations were descended from Anatolian migrants who received a limited amount of admixture from resident hunter-gatherers. Many open questions remain, however, about the spatial and temporal dynamics of population interactions and admixture during the Neolithic period. Using the highest-resolution genomewide ancient DNA data set assembled to date—a total of 177 samples, 127 newly reported here, from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Hungary (6000–2900 BCE, n = 98), Germany (5500–3000 BCE, n = 42), and Spain (5500–2200 BCE, n = 37)—we investigate the population dynamics of Neolithization across Europe. We find that genetic diversity was shaped predominantly by local processes, with varied sources and proportions of hunter-gatherer ancestry among the three regions and through time. Admixture between groups with different ancestry profiles was pervasive and resulted in observable population transformation across almost all cultural transitions. Our results shed new light on the ways that gene flow reshaped European populations throughout the Neolithic period and demonstrate the potential of time-series-based sampling and modeling approaches to elucidate multiple dimensions of historical population interactions.