The male-specific part of the human Y chromosome is widely used in forensic DNA analysis,
particularly in cases where standard autosomal DNA profiling is not informative. A Y …

The Y chromosome has long been considered a 'genetic wasteland'on a trajectory to
completely disappear from the human genome. The perception of its physiological function …

Southern Africa is consistently placed as a potential region for the evolution of Homo
sapiens. We present genome sequences, up to 13x coverage, from seven ancient …

INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge …

The consequences of the Neolithic transition in Europe—one of the most important cultural
changes in human prehistory—is a subject of great interest. However, its effect on prehistoric …

Prehistoric population structure associated with the transition to an agricultural lifestyle in
Europe remains a contentious idea. Population-genomic data from 11 Scandinavian Stone …

It is commonly thought that human genetic diversity in non-African populations was shaped
primarily by an out-of-Africa dispersal 50–100 thousand yr ago (kya). Here, we present a …

After opening the first version of an internet-accessible worldwide reference database of Y
chromosome profiles 14 years ago and six years after the last major relaunch the new …

Hundreds of thousands of human genomes are now being sequenced to characterize
genetic variation and use this information to augment association map** studies of …

For millennia, the Pontic-Caspian steppe was a connector between the Eurasian steppe and
Europe. In this scene, multidirectional and sequential movements of different populations …