Genome-wide data from two early Neolithic East Asian individuals dating to 7700 years ago
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Siska, V., Jones, E.R., Jeon, S., Bhak, Y., Kim, H.-M., Cho, Y.S., Kim, H., Lee, K., Veselovskaya, E., Balueva, T., Gallego-Llorente, M., Hofreiter, M., Bradley, D.G., Eriksson, A., Pinhasi, R., Bhak, J. & Manica, A., Genome-wide data from two early Neolithic East Asian individuals dating to 7700 years ago, Science Advances, 3, 2, 2017, e1601877.Download Item:
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Ancient genomes have revolutionized our understanding of Holocene prehistory and, particularly, the Neolithic
transition in western Eurasia. In contrast, East Asia has so
far received little attention,
despite representing a core
region at which the Neolithic transition took place indep
endently ~3 millennia after its onset in the Near East. We
report genome-wide data from two hunter-gatherers from Devil
’
s Gate, an early Neolithic cave site (dated to
~7.7 thousand years ago) located in East Asia, on the border between Russia and Korea. Both of these individ-
uals are genetically most similar to geographically clos
e modern populations from the Amur Basin, all speaking
Tungusic languages, and, in particular, to the Ulchi. The s
imilarity to nearby modern populations and the low levels
of additional genetic material in the Ulc
hi imply a high level of genetic continui
ty in this region during the Holocene,
a pattern that markedly contrast
s with that reported for Europe
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Author: Bradley, Daniel; Siska, Veronica; Jones, Eppie Ruth; Jeon, Sungwon; Bhak, Youngjune; Kim, Hak-Min; Cho, Yun Sung; Kim, Hyunho; Lee, Kyusang; Veselovskaya, Elizaveta; Balueva, Tatiana; Gallego-Llorente, Marcos; Hofreiter, Michael; Eriksson, Andres; Pinhasi, Ron; Bhak, Jong; Manica, Andrea
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Holocene prehistory, Ancient genetics, East Asia, Neolithic, Russian Far East, Human population geneticsDOI:
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