Eurogenes Blog

I'm hoping like hell that the samples from this thesis eventually get the same treatment as those from Haak et al. 2015 . Summary:...

Europeans probably received their Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) admixture from at least a couple of different sources. Most of it no doubt ca...

I've been playing around with the new qpAdm program and the Haak et al. dataset over the past few days and managed to come up with what...

Update 11/10/2015: Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe - take 2 ... A new preprint at bioRxiv reports on the first ...

Here's a quick and dirty attempt to flush out a Yamnaya-specific ancestral component with the ADMIXTURE software and a few Yamnaya genom...

ADMIXTOOLS 3.0 is now available at github via the Reich Lab site. The updated package includes minor bugfixes and improvements and two new p...

Up for public comment at bioRxiv this week is this paper on the population history of the Near East, with a special focus on Armenians. He...

Most of the action on this blog in recent weeks has revolved around the Indo-European urheimat question. So it's probably not a coincide...

The main angle of the recently released epic manuscript Haak et al. 2015 is that ancient DNA supports the steppe origin of at least some of...

I'll probably end up writing a whole series of posts on this paper . But for now, here's the abstract and a PCA. We generated geno...