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Thursday, April 30, 2015

The enigma of the Kalash

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Last year Garrett Hellenthal et al. claimed that the Kalash people of the Hindu Kush received a large pulse of admixture from somewhere in ...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

The teal people: did they actually exist, and if so, who were they?

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The ADMIXTURE analysis in Haak et al. 2015 includes a series of intriguing teal colored components from K=16 to K=20 (see image here ). The ...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Population genetics of Copper and Bronze Age inhabitants of the Eastern European steppe

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I'm hoping like hell that the samples from this thesis eventually get the same treatment as those from Haak et al. 2015 . Summary:...
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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Mitogenomes reveal post-Neolithic gene flow from the Near East to Tuscany

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Europeans probably received their Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) admixture from at least a couple of different sources. Most of it no doubt ca...
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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Modeling the ancestry of Yamnaya with qpAdm

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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...
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Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe

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Update 11/10/2015: Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe - take 2 ... A new preprint at bioRxiv reports on the first ...
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Friday, March 13, 2015

Yamnaya-related ancestry proportions in Europe and west Asia

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Here's a quick and dirty attempt to flush out a Yamnaya-specific ancestral component with the ADMIXTURE software and a few Yamnaya genom...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

New release of ADMIXTOOLS with two additional programs

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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...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Near East ain't what it used to be

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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...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Latest linguistics research backs the Indo-European steppe hypothesis

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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...
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