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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Kets are rich in Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) ancestry

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There's an interesting and very thorough preprint at bioRxiv looking at the genomic structure of Kets, the last nomadic hunter-gathere...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Finngolians

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Of course, Mongolians never made it to Finland or even Northern Russia (Kargopol area) where these Russian samples are from. How did this cr...
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Comic relief

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When, and how exactly, did ANI become ANE? I didn't get the memo. The geographical distribution of the dark green component (ASI or An...
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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Latvians: very similar to Lithuanians

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The Estonian Biocentre has uploaded a new dataset from a forthcoming paper on the population structure of Slavs. It includes Latvians, Slov...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The ancient DNA case against the Anatolian hypothesis

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In the debate over the location of the Proto-Indo-European urheimat , Colin Renfrew's Anatolian hypothesis is usually mentioned as the ...
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Sunday, July 26, 2015

Global PCA of selected Late Neolithic/Bronze Age Eurasians

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I was curious how the Bronze Age steppe and Corded Ware genomes from the Rise dataset would behave in Principal Component Analyses (PCA) alo...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

High-res R1b tree featuring 16 ancient sequences

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Here's a useful R1b phylogenetic tree that was posted recently at the R1b-M269 (P312- U106-) DNA Project site. If these results ar...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

The real thing

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A couple of years ago Moorjani et al. concluded that present-day Georgians of the Transcaucasus were the best available proxy for the ancie...
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Friday, July 17, 2015

Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from eastern England (Schiffels et al. preprint)

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I haven't read this properly yet, but the results appear to be very similar to those I obtained with some of the same ancient genomes (s...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Population genomics of Early Bronze Age Europe in three simple graphs

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Thanks to recent advances in ancient genomics there's very little doubt now that the Pontic-Caspian Steppe was the source of massive pop...
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