RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Genetic History of Northern Europe
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 113241
DO 10.1101/113241
A1 Alissa Mittnik
A1 Chuan-Chao Wang
A1 Saskia Pfrengle
A1 Mantas Daubaras
A1 Gunita Zarina
A1 Fredrik Hallgren
A1 Raili Allmäe
A1 Valery Khartanovich
A1 Vyacheslav Moiseyev
A1 Anja Furtwängler
A1 Aida Andrades Valtueña
A1 Michal Feldman
A1 Christos Economou
A1 Markku Oinonen
A1 Andrejs Vasks
A1 Mari Tõrv
A1 Oleg Balanovsky
A1 David Reich
A1 Rimantas Jankauskas
A1 Wolfgang Haak
A1 Stephan Schiffels
A1 Johannes Krause
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/03/03/113241.abstract
AB Recent ancient DNA studies have revealed that the genetic history of modern Europeans was shaped by a series of migration and admixture events between deeply diverged groups. While these events are well described in Central and Southern Europe, genetic evidence from Northern Europe surrounding the Baltic Sea is still sparse. Here we report genome-wide DNA data from 24 ancient North Europeans ranging from ∼7,500 to 200 calBCE spanning the transition from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural lifestyle, as well as the adoption of bronze metallurgy. We show that Scandinavia was settled after the retreat of the glacial ice sheets from a southern and a northern route, and that the first Scandinavian Neolithic farmers derive their ancestry from Anatolia 1000 years earlier than previously demonstrated. The range of Western European Mesolithic hunter-gatherers extended to the east of the Baltic Sea, where these populations persisted without gene-flow from Central European farmers until around 2,900 calBCE when the arrival of steppe pastoralists introduced a major shift in economy and established wide-reaching networks of contact within the Corded Ware Complex.