Ancient DNA analysis

L Orlando, R Allaby, P Skoglund… - Nature reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics

E Willerslev, DJ Meltzer - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of
the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown …

The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024‏ - nature.com
More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans.
While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the …

On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics

R Maier, P Flegontov, O Flegontova, U Işıldak… - Elife, 2023‏ - elifesciences.org
Our understanding of population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting admixture
graphs (AGs) to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

CC Wang, HY Yeh, AN Popov, HQ Zhang… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people,. Here we report genome …

Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

Y Wang, MW Pedersen, IG Alsos, B De Sanctis… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic
changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood …

Ancient DNA indicates human population shifts and admixture in northern and southern China

MA Yang, X Fan, B Sun, C Chen, J Lang, YC Ko… - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
Human genetic history in East Asia is poorly understood. To clarify population relationships,
we obtained genome-wide data from 26 ancient individuals from northern and southern East …

The deep population history of northern East Asia from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene

X Mao, H Zhang, S Qiao, Y Liu, F Chang, P **e… - Cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
Summary Northern East Asia was inhabited by modern humans as early as 40 thousand
years ago (ka), as demonstrated by the Tianyuan individual. Using genome-wide data …

Human genetic history on the Tibetan Plateau in the past 5100 years

H Wang, MA Yang, S Wangdue, H Lu, H Chen, L Li… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Using genome-wide data of 89 ancient individuals dated to 5100 to 100 years before the
present (BP) from 29 sites across the Tibetan Plateau, we found plateau-specific ancestry …

Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice

RM Gutaker, SC Groen, ES Bellis, JY Choi, IS Pires… - Nature plants, 2020‏ - nature.com
Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the world's most important food crops, and is comprised largely
of japonica and indica subspecies. Here, we reconstruct the history of rice dispersal in Asia …