RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The maternal genetic make-up of the Iberian Peninsula between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 106963
DO 10.1101/106963
A1 Anna Szécsényi-Nagy
A1 Christina Roth
A1 Guido Brandt
A1 Cristina Rihuete-Herrada
A1 Cristina Tejedor-Rodríguez
A1 Petra Held
A1 Íñigo García-Martínez-de-Lagrán
A1 Héctor Arcusa Magallón
A1 Stephanie Zesch
A1 Corina Knipper
A1 Eszter Bánffy
A1 Susanne Friederich
A1 Harald Meller
A1 Primitiva Bueno Ramírez
A1 Rosa Barroso Bermejo
A1 Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann
A1 Ana M. Herrero-Corral
A1 Raúl Flores Fernández
A1 Carmen Alonso Fernández
A1 Javier Jiménez Echevarria
A1 Laura Rindlisbacher
A1 Camila Oliart
A1 María-Inés Fregeiro
A1 Ignacio Soriano
A1 Oriol Vicente
A1 Rafael Micó
A1 Vicente Lull
A1 Jorge Soler Díaz
A1 Juan Antonio López Padilla
A1 Consuelo Roca de Togores Muñoz
A1 Mauro S. Hernández Pérez
A1 Francisco Javier Jover Maestre
A1 Joaquín Lomba Maurandi
A1 Azucena Avilés Fernández
A1 Katina T. Lillios
A1 Ana Maria Silva
A1 Miguel Magalhães Ramalho
A1 Luiz Miguel Oosterbeek
A1 Claudia Cunha
A1 Anna J. Waterman
A1 Jordi Roig Buxó
A1 Andrés Martínez
A1 Juana Ponce Martínez
A1 Mark Hunt Ortiz
A1 Juan Carlos Mejías-García
A1 Juan Carlos Pecero Espín
A1 Rosario Cruz-Auñón Briones
A1 Tiago Tomé
A1 Eduardo Carmona Ballestero
A1 João Luís Cardoso
A1 Ana Cristina Araújo
A1 Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck
A1 Concepción Blasco Bosqued
A1 Patricia Ríos Mendoza
A1 Ana Pujante
A1 José I. Royo-Guillén
A1 Marco Aurelio Esquembre Beviá
A1 Victor Manuel Dos Santos Goncalves
A1 Rui Parreira
A1 Elena Morán Hernández
A1 Elena Méndez Izquierdo
A1 Jorge Vega de Miguel
A1 Roberto Menduiña García
A1 Victoria Martínez Calvo
A1 Oscar López Jiménez
A1 Johannes Krause
A1 Sandra L. Pichler
A1 Rafael Garrido-Pena
A1 Michael Kunst
A1 Roberto Risch
A1 Manuel A. Rojo-Guerra
A1 Wolfgang Haak
A1 Kurt W. Alt
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/10/106963.abstract
AB Agriculture first reached the Iberian Peninsula around 5700 BCE. However, little is known about the genetic structure and changes of prehistoric populations in different geographic areas of Iberia. In our study, we focused on the maternal genetic makeup of the Neolithic (~ 5500-3000 BCE), Chalcolithic (~ 3000-2200 BCE) and Early Bronze Age (~ 2200-1500 BCE). We report ancient mitochondrial DNA results of 213 individuals (151 HVS-I sequences) from the northeast, middle Ebro Valley, central, southeast and southwest regions and thus on the largest archaeogenetic dataset from the Peninsula to date. Similar to other parts of Europe, we observe a discontinuity between hunter-gatherers and the first farmers of the Neolithic, however the genetic contribution of hunter-gatherers is generally higher and varies regionally, being most pronounced in the inland middle Ebro Valley and in southwest Iberia. During the subsequent periods, we detect regional continuity of Early Neolithic lineages across Iberia, parallel to an increase of hunter-gatherer genetic ancestry. In contrast to ancient DNA findings from Central Europe, we do not observe a major turnover in the mtDNA record of the Iberian Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age, suggesting that the population history of the Iberian Peninsula is distinct in character.