TY  - GEN
A1  - Gonzalez-Fortes, Gloria M.
A1  - Tassi, Francesca
A1  - Ghirotto, Silvia
A1  - Henneberger, Kirstin
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Barbujani, Guido
T1  - The Neolithic transition at the Western edge of Europe
T2  - American journal of physical anthropology
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 0002-9483
SN  - 1096-8644
VL  - 162
SP  - 198
EP  - 198
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tassi, Francesca
A1  - Vai, Stefania
A1  - Ghirotto, Silvia
A1  - Lari, Martina
A1  - Modi, Alessandra
A1  - Pilli, Elena
A1  - Brunelli, Andrea
A1  - Susca, Roberta Rosa
A1  - Budnik, Alicja
A1  - Labuda, Damian
A1  - Alberti, Federica
A1  - Lalueza-Fox, Carles
A1  - Reich, David
A1  - Caramelli, David
A1  - Barbujani, Guido
T1  - Genome diversity in the Neolithic Globular Amphorae culture and the spread of Indo-European languages
JF  - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London : B, Biological sciences
N2  - It is unclear whether Indo-European languages in Europe spread from the Pontic steppes in the late Neolithic, or from Anatolia in the Early Neolithic. Under the former hypothesis, people of the Globular Amphorae culture (GAC) would be descended from Eastern ancestors, likely representing the Yamnaya culture. However, nuclear (six individuals typed for 597 573 SNPs) and mitochondrial (11 complete sequences) DNA from the GAC appear closer to those of earlier Neolithic groups than to the DNA of all other populations related to the Pontic steppe migration. Explicit comparisons of alternative demographic models via approximate Bayesian computation confirmed this pattern. These results are not in contrast to Late Neolithic gene flow from the Pontic steppes into Central Europe. However, they add nuance to this model, showing that the eastern affinities of the GAC in the archaeological record reflect cultural influences from other groups from the East, rather than the movement of people.
KW  - population genomics
KW  - ancient DNA
KW  - migration
KW  - Neolithic
KW  - Indo-European
KW  - approximate Bayesian computation
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.1540
SN  - 0962-8452
SN  - 1471-2954
VL  - 284
PB  - Royal Society
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gonzalez-Fortes, Gloria M.
A1  - Tassi, F.
A1  - Trucchi, E.
A1  - Henneberger, K.
A1  - Paijmans, Johanna L. A.
A1  - Diez-del-Molino, D.
A1  - Schroeder, H.
A1  - Susca, R. R.
A1  - Barroso-Ruiz, C.
A1  - Bermudez, F. J.
A1  - Barroso-Medina, C.
A1  - Bettencourt, A. M. S.
A1  - Sampaio, H. A.
A1  - Salas, A.
A1  - de Lombera-Hermida, A.
A1  - Fabregas Valcarce, Ramón
A1  - Vaquero, M.
A1  - Alonso, S.
A1  - Lozano, Marina
A1  - Rodriguez-Alvarez, Xose Pedro
A1  - Fernandez-Rodriguez, C.
A1  - Manica, Andrea
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Barbujani, Guido
T1  - A western route of prehistoric human migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula
JF  - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London : B, Biological sciences
N2  - Being at the western fringe of Europe, Iberia had a peculiar prehistory and a complex pattern of Neolithization. A few studies, all based on modern populations, reported the presence of DNA of likely African origin in this region, generally concluding it was the result of recent gene flow, probably during the Islamic period. Here, we provide evidence of much older gene flow from Africa to Iberia by sequencing whole genomes from four human remains from northern Portugal and southern Spain dated around 4000 years BP (from the Middle Neolithic to the Bronze Age). We found one of them to carry an unequivocal sub-Saharan mitogenome of most probably West or West-Central African origin, to our knowledge never reported before in prehistoric remains outside Africa. Our analyses of ancient nuclear genomes show small but significant levels of sub-Saharan African affinity in several ancient Iberian samples, which indicates that what we detected was not an occasional individual phenomenon, but an admixture event recognizable at the population level. We interpret this result as evidence of an early migration process from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula through a western route, possibly across the Strait of Gibraltar.
KW  - palaeogenome
KW  - Africa
KW  - Iberia
KW  - mitochondrial DNA
KW  - gene flow
KW  - admixture
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2288
SN  - 0962-8452
SN  - 1471-2954
VL  - 286
IS  - 1895
PB  - Royal Society
CY  - London
ER  -