@article {308382,
	title = {Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians.},
	journal = {Nat Commun},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2015},
	note = {http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151116/ncomms9912/full/ncomms9912.html},
	month = {2015},
	pages = {8912},
	abstract = {<p>We extend the scope of European palaeogenomics by sequencing the genomes of Late Upper Palaeolithic (13,300 years old, 1.4-fold coverage) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old, 15.4-fold) males from western Georgia in the Caucasus and a Late Upper Palaeolithic (13,700 years old, 9.5-fold) male from Switzerland. While we detect Late Palaeolithic-Mesolithic genomic continuity in both regions, we find that Caucasus hunter-gatherers (CHG) belong to a distinct ancient clade that split from western hunter-gatherers \~{}45 kya, shortly after the expansion of anatomically modern humans into Europe and from the ancestors of Neolithic farmers \~{}25 kya, around the Last Glacial Maximum. CHG genomes significantly contributed to the Yamnaya steppe herders who migrated into Europe \~{}3,000 BC, supporting a formative Caucasus influence on this important Early Bronze age culture. CHG left their imprint on modern populations from the Caucasus and also central and south Asia possibly marking the arrival of Indo-Aryan languages.</p>},
	keywords = {Asia, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Europe, European Continental Ancestry Group, Genome, Human, Genomics, Human Migration, Humans, Male},
	issn = {2041-1723},
	doi = {10.1038/ncomms9912},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26567969},
	author = {Jones, Eppie R and Gonzalez-Fortes, Gloria and Connell, Sarah and Siska, Veronika and Eriksson, Anders and Martiniano, Rui and McLaughlin, Russell L and Gallego Llorente, Marcos and Cassidy, Lara M and Gamba, Cristina and Meshveliani, Tengiz and Bar-Yosef, Ofer and M{\"u}ller, Werner and Belfer-Cohen, Anna and Matskevich, Zinovi and Jakeli, Nino and Higham, Thomas F G and Currat, Mathias and Lordkipanidze, David and Hofreiter, Michael and Manica, Andrea and Pinhasi, Ron and Bradley, Daniel G}
}
