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 …

Beyond broad strokes: sociocultural insights from the study of ancient genomes

F Racimo, M Sikora, M Vander Linden… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
In the field of human history, ancient DNA has provided answers to long-standing debates
about major movements of people and has begun to inform on other important facets of the …

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

Middle Holocene Indian summer monsoon variability and its impact on cultural changes in the Indian subcontinent

V Rawat, S Rawat, P Srivastava, PS Negi… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Agriculture is a major contributor to the economic development of modern as well as ancient
India and largely depends on the rainfall in the monsoon season. In order to understand the …

A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes

AW Wohns, Y Wong, B Jeffery, A Akbari, S Mallick… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The sequencing of modern and ancient genomes from around the world has revolutionized
our understanding of human history and evolution. However, the problem of how best to …

Assessing the performance of qpAdm: a statistical tool for studying population admixture

É Harney, N Patterson, D Reich, J Wakeley - Genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract qpAdm is a statistical tool for studying the ancestry of populations with histories that
involve admixture between two or more source populations. Using qpAdm, it is possible to …

correctKin: an optimized method to infer relatedness up to the 4th degree from low-coverage ancient human genomes

E Nyerki, T Kalmár, O Schütz, RM Lima, E Neparáczki… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Kinship analysis from very low-coverage ancient sequences has been possible up to the
second degree with large uncertainties. We propose a new, accurate, and fast method …

Origin of ethnic groups, linguistic families, and civilizations in China viewed from the Y chromosome

X Yu, H Li - Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2021 - Springer
East Asia, geographically extending to the Pamir Plateau in the west, to the Himalayan
Mountains in the southwest, to Lake Baikal in the north and to the South China Sea in the …

Northeastern Asian and Jomon-related genetic structure in the Three Kingdoms period of Gimhae, Korea

P Gelabert, A Blazyte, Y Chang, DM Fernandes, S Jeon… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
The genetic history of prehistoric and protohistoric Korean populations is not well
understood because only a small number of ancient genomes are available. Here, we report …

Fine-scale sampling uncovers the complexity of migrations in 5th–6th century Pannonia

DN Vyas, I Koncz, A Modi, BG Mende, Y Tian… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
As the collapse of the Western Roman Empire accelerated during the 4th and 5th centuries,
arriving" barbarian" groups began to establish new communities in the border provinces of …