Marcos Gallego-Llorente, Connell Sarah, Eppie R. Jones, Deborah C. Merrett, Y. Jeon, Anders Eriksson, Veronika Siska, Cristina Gamba, Christopher Meiklejohn, Robert Beyer, Sungwon Jeon, Yun Sung Cho, Michael Hofreiter, Jong Bhak, Andrea Manica, Ron Pinhasi
- The agricultural transition profoundly changed human societies. We sequenced and analysed the first genome (1.39x) of an early Neolithic woman from Ganj Dareh, in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, a site with early evidence for an economy based on goat herding, ca. 10,000 BP. We show that Western Iran was inhabited by a population genetically most similar to hunter-gatherers from the Caucasus, but distinct from the Neolithic Anatolian people who later brought food production into Europe. The inhabitants of Ganj Dareh made little direct genetic contribution to modern European populations, suggesting those of the Central Zagros were somewhat isolated from other populations of the Fertile Crescent. Runs of homozygosity are of a similar length to those from Neolithic farmers, and shorter than those of Caucasus and Western Hunter-Gatherers, suggesting that the inhabitants of Ganj Dareh did not undergo the large population bottleneck suffered by their northern neighbours. While some degree of cultural diffusion between Anatolia, Western IranThe agricultural transition profoundly changed human societies. We sequenced and analysed the first genome (1.39x) of an early Neolithic woman from Ganj Dareh, in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, a site with early evidence for an economy based on goat herding, ca. 10,000 BP. We show that Western Iran was inhabited by a population genetically most similar to hunter-gatherers from the Caucasus, but distinct from the Neolithic Anatolian people who later brought food production into Europe. The inhabitants of Ganj Dareh made little direct genetic contribution to modern European populations, suggesting those of the Central Zagros were somewhat isolated from other populations of the Fertile Crescent. Runs of homozygosity are of a similar length to those from Neolithic farmers, and shorter than those of Caucasus and Western Hunter-Gatherers, suggesting that the inhabitants of Ganj Dareh did not undergo the large population bottleneck suffered by their northern neighbours. While some degree of cultural diffusion between Anatolia, Western Iran and other neighbouring regions is possible, the genetic dissimilarity between early Anatolian farmers and the inhabitants of Ganj Dareh supports a model in which Neolithic societies in these areas were distinct.…
MetadatenAuthor details: | Marcos Gallego-LlorenteORCiD, Connell Sarah, Eppie R. Jones, Deborah C. MerrettORCiD, Y. Jeon, Anders ErikssonORCiD, Veronika Siska, Cristina GambaORCiD, Christopher Meiklejohn, Robert Beyer, Sungwon JeonORCiD, Yun Sung ChoORCiD, Michael HofreiterORCiDGND, Jong BhakORCiD, Andrea ManicaORCiD, Ron PinhasiORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-439355 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43935 |
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ISSN: | 1866-8372 |
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Title of parent work (German): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe |
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Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe (952) |
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Publication type: | Postprint |
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Language: | English |
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Date of first publication: | 2020/06/10 |
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Publication year: | 2016 |
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Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
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Release date: | 2020/06/10 |
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Tag: | admixture; agriculture; ancient; archaeology; biological anthropology; diffusion; domestication; migration; mountains; patterns; sequence; whole-genome association |
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Issue: | 952 |
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Number of pages: | 9 |
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Source: | Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 31326 DOI: 10.1038/srep31326 |
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Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
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DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 50 Naturwissenschaften / 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik |
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| 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 60 Technik / 600 Technik, Technologie |
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Peer review: | Referiert |
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Publishing method: | Open Access |
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License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
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