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

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 analyzed these and other ancient genomes1-4 with 2,345 contemporary humans to show that most present Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated...

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Main Authors: Lipson, Mark (Contributor), Berger Leighton, Bonnie (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2017-06-22T22:21:00Z.
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