TY  - GEN
A1  - Gallego-Llorente, Marcos
A1  - Sarah, Connell
A1  - Jones, Eppie R.
A1  - Merrett, Deborah C.
A1  - Jeon, Y.
A1  - Eriksson, Anders
A1  - Siska, Veronika
A1  - Gamba, Cristina
A1  - Meiklejohn, Christopher
A1  - Beyer, Robert
A1  - Jeon, Sungwon
A1  - Cho, Yun Sung
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Bhak, Jong
A1  - Manica, Andrea
A1  - Pinhasi, Ron
T1  - The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - 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 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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 952 
KW  - whole-genome association
KW  - ancient
KW  - domestication
KW  - agriculture
KW  - mountains
KW  - diffusion
KW  - migration
KW  - admixture
KW  - patterns
KW  - sequence
KW  - archaeology
KW  - biological anthropology
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-439355
SN  - 1866-8372
IS  - 952
ER  -