Thursday, May 31, 2018

What's Maykop (or Iran) got to do with it? #2

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For the past few days I've been trying to copy and also improve on the qpGraph tree in the Wang et al. preprint (see here ). I've ma...
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Friday, May 25, 2018

Cultural hitchhiking and competition between patrilineal kin groups may have led to the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck (Zeng et al. 2018)

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A very interesting paper has just appeared at Nature Communications that potentially offers an explanation for the well documented explosio...
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Thursday, May 24, 2018

What's Maykop (or Iran) got to do with it?

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I had a go at imitating this qpGraph tree , from the recent Wang et al. preprint on the genetic prehistory of the Caucasus, using the ancien...
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

More Botai genomes (Jeong et al. 2018 preprint)

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Over at bioRxiv at this LINK . Actually, these may or may not be the same Botai genomes that have already been published along with Damgaar...
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Global25 workshop 2: intra-European variation

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Even though the Global25 focuses on world-wide human genetic diversity, it can also reveal a lot of information about genetic substructures ...
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Monday, May 21, 2018

Global25 workshop 1: that classic West Eurasian plot

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In this Global25 workshop I'm going to show you how to reproduce the classic plot of West Eurasian genetic diversity seen regularly in a...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

On the genetic prehistory of the Greater Caucasus (Wang et al. 2018 preprint)

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Finally, the focus shifts to the Eneolithic/Bronze Age North Caucasus. In a new manuscript at bioRxiv , Wang et al. present genome-wide SNP ...
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New PCA featuring Botai horse tamers, Hun and Saka warriors, and many more...

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Just in case anyone's wondering how the ancient samples from the two recent archaeogenetic papers by Damgaard et al. ( Nature and Scien...
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Sunday, May 13, 2018

Hittite era Anatolians in qpAdm

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The apparent lack of steppe ancestry in five Hittite era, perhaps Indo-European-speaking, Anatolians was interpreted in Damgaard et al. 2018...
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Thursday, May 10, 2018

Graeco-Aryan parallels

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The clearly non-local admixture in the geographically and genetically disparate, but Indo-European-speaking, ancient Mycenaeans and present-...
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