O. Balanovsky

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The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations
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It is demonstrated that indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andamanese do not derive substantial ancestry from an early dispersal of modern humans; instead, their modern human ancestry is consistent with coming from the same source as that of other non-Africans.
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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
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It is shown that the great majority of present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: West European Hunter-Gatherers (WHG), who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; Ancient North Eurasians (ANE); and Early European Farmers (EEF), who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harbored WHG-related ancestry.
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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
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It is shown that the great majority of present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: West European Hunter-Gatherers (WHG), who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; Ancient North Eurasians (ANE); and Early European Farmers (EEF), who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harbored WHG-related ancestry.
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Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans
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The findings reveal that western Eurasian genetic signatures in modern-day Native Americans derive not only from post-Columbian admixture, as commonly thought, but also from a mixed ancestry of the First Americans.
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Ancient DNA from European Early Neolithic Farmers Reveals Their Near Eastern Affinities
The first farmers from Central Europe reveal a genetic affinity to modern-day populations from the Near East and Anatolia, which suggests a significant demographic input from this area during the…
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Phylogeography of Y-chromosome haplogroup I reveals distinct domains of prehistoric gene flow in europe.
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Haplogroup I, the only major clade of the Y phylogeny that is widespread over Europe but virtually absent elsewhere, is analyzed, in detail, and it is revealed that it underwent a postglacial expansion and marked the human colonization of Sardinia approximately 9,000 years ago.
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The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people
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High-density bead arrays to genotype individuals from 14 Jewish Diaspora communities are used to compare patterns of genome-wide diversity with those from 69 Old World non-Jewish populations, of which 25 have not previously been reported.
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Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans
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The results suggest that there has been gene flow between some Native Americans from both North and South America and groups related to East Asians and Australo-Melanesians, the latter possibly through an East Asian route that might have included ancestors of modern Aleutian Islanders.
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A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture.
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A study of 456 geographically diverse high-coverage Y chromosome sequences, including 299 newly reported samples, infer a second strong bottleneck in Y-chromosome lineages dating to the last 10 ky, and hypothesize that this bottleneck is caused by cultural changes affecting variance of reproductive success among males.
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The western and eastern roots of the Saami--the story of genetic "outliers" told by mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes.
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A high-resolution phylogenetic analysis of Saami genetic heritage was undertaken in a comprehensive context, through use of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and paternALLY inherited Y-chromosomal variation, and it was shown that the "Saami motif" variant of mtDNA haplogroup U5b is present in a large area outside Scandinavia.
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