Monday, June 3, 2013

Recent gene flow from Africa and the Near East into Europe

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A new paper at PNAS by Botigué et al. takes a close look at African and Near Eastern admixture in Europe: Human genetic diversity in sou...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

South Asian R1a in the 1000 Genomes Project

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After a recent update, the 1000 Genomes project now includes 62 individuals of South Asian origin belonging to Y-DNA haplogroup R1a-M17. Th...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

First direct evidence of genetic continuity in West and Central Poland from the Iron Age to the present

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I've just been sent a fascinating thesis on the mtDNA of Iron Age and Medieval samples from Poland. It suggests direct genetic continuit...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

So who's the most (indigenous) European of us all?

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Basically, the first map below reveals the answer. It shows the spread of a European specific cluster from a global-wide ADMIXTURE analysis ...
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Genetic substructures within the HapMap CEU sample (and Eurogenes' Northwest Europeans)

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In this experiment I attempt to characterize more precisely the origins of some of the individuals from the HapMap CEU cohort. These samples...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Eurogenes' North Euro clusters - phase 2, final results

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This is a continuation of my ChromoPainter analysis of Europeans from north of the Pyrenees, Alps and Balkans (see here ). To obtain the mos...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Eurogenes' North Euro clusters - phase 1, exploring the data

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I have some preliminary results from a new intra-North Euro cluster analysis, using a cutting edge tool called ChromoPainter . More than 400...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

Pigmentation genetics of Europeans

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The maps below are based on three genome-wide SNPs showing high correlation with blue and green eyes and/or fair hair in Europeans. The resu...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Best of 2008: Corded Ware DNA from Germany

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One of the biggest hits of the year for this blogger was the discovery of Y-DNA haplogroup R1a among three Corded Ware skeletons from a buri...