@article {308759, title = {Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans}, journal = {Nature}, volume = {513}, year = {2014}, note = {

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v513/n7518/full/nature13673.html

}, month = {09/2014}, pages = {409-413}, chapter = {409}, abstract = {

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 analysed these and other ancient genomes1,\ 2,\ 3,\ 4\ with 2,345 contemporary humans to show that most present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: west European hunter-gatherers, who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; ancient north Eurasians related to Upper Palaeolithic Siberians3, who contributed to both Europeans and Near Easterners; and early European farmers, who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harboured west European hunter-gatherer related ancestry. We model these populations{\textquoteright} deep relationships and show that early European farmers had ~44\% ancestry from a {\textquoteleft}basal Eurasian{\textquoteright} population that split before the diversification of other non-African lineages.

}, doi = {10.1038/nature13673}, url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25230663}, author = {Lazaridis, I. and Patterson, N. and Mittnik, A. and Renaud, G. and Mallick, S. and Kirsanow, K. and Sudmant, P. and Schraiber, J. and Castellano, S. and Lipson, M. and Berger, B. and Economou, C. and Bollongino, R. and Fu, Q. and Bos, K. I. and Nordenfelt, S. and Li, H. and de Filippo, C. and Prufer, K. and Sawyer, S. and Posth, C. and Haak, W. and Hallgren, F. and Fornander, E. and Rohland, N.} }