@article {310626,
	title = {Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent},
	journal = {Science},
	year = {2016},
	month = {07/2016},
	abstract = {<p>We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously uncharacterized population that is neither ancestral to the first European farmers nor has contributed significantly to the ancestry of modern Europeans. These people are estimated to have separated from Early Neolithic farmers in Anatolia some 46-77,000 years ago and show affinities to modern day Pakistani and Afghan populations, but particularly to Iranian Zoroastrians. We conclude that multiple, genetically differentiated hunter-gatherer populations adopted farming in SW-Asia, that components of pre-Neolithic population structure were preserved as farming spread into neighboring regions, and that the Zagros region was the cradle of eastward expansion.</p>
},
	url = {http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/07/13/science.aaf7943.full.pdf+html},
	author = {Broushaki, Farnaz and Thomas, Mark G and Link, Vivian and L{\'o}pez, Saioa and van Dorp, Lucy and Kirsanow, Karola and Hofmanov{\'a}, Zuzana and Diekmann, Yoan and Cassidy, Lara M. and D{\'\i}ez-del-Molino, David and Kousathanas, Athanasios and Sell, Christian and Robson, Harry K. and Martiniano, Rui and Bl{\"o}cher, Jens and Scheu, Amelie and Kreutzer, Susanne and Bollongino, Ruth and Bobo, Dean and Davudi, Hossein and Munoz, Olivia and Currat, Mathias and Abdi, Kamyar and Biglari, Fereidoun and Craig, Oliver E. and Bradley, Daniel G and Shennan, Stephen and Veeramah, Krishna R and Mashkour, Marjan and Wegmann, Daniel and Hellenthal, Garrett and Burger, Joachim}
}
