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Population genomics of bronze age Eurasia

…, G McGlynn, A Merkevicius, I Merkyte, M Metspalu… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000–1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes.
However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of …

Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

…, M Metspalu, M Meyer, EE Eichler, J Burger, M Slatkin… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
We sequenced the genomes of a ∼7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ∼8,000-year-old
hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other …

The Simons genome diversity project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

…, LB Jorde, SA Tishkoff, WS Watkins, M Metspalu… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Here we report the Simons Genome Diversity Project data set: high quality genomes from 300
individuals from 142 diverse populations. These genomes include at least 5.8 million base …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

…, A Albrechtsen, I Moltke, M Metspalu, E Metspalu… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from ∼4,000-year-old
permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known …

Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

M Raghavan, P Skoglund, KE Graf, M Metspalu… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
… these were significantly different from 0, standard errors and Z scores were obtained using
a method known as ‘delete-m Jackknife for unequal m’, with a block size of 5 megabases 65 . …

An Aboriginal Australian genome reveals separate human dispersals into Asia

…, A Albrechtsen, L Skotte, S Lindgreen, M Metspalu… - Science, 2011 - science.org
We present an Aboriginal Australian genomic sequence obtained from a 100-year-old lock
of hair donated by an Aboriginal man from southern Western Australia in the early 20th …

Evaluating the mitochondrial timescale of human evolution

P Endicott, SYW Ho, M Metspalu, C Stringer - Trends in ecology & …, 2009 - cell.com
Different methodologies and modes of calibration have produced disparate, sometimes
irreconcilable, reconstructions of the evolutionary and demographic history of our species. We …

[HTML][HTML] Beringian standstill and spread of Native American founders

E Tamm, T Kivisild, M Reidla, M Metspalu, DG Smith… - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Native Americans derive from a small number of Asian founders who likely arrived to the
Americas via Beringia. However, additional details about the intial colonization of the Americas …

Peopling of South Asia: investigating the caste–tribe continuum in India

G Chaubey, M Metspalu, T Kivisild, R Villems - Bioessays, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… root in L3 for the panEurasian founder lineages M and N (including R). The … M subclades
that are autochthonous to India but, most importantly, all the pan-Eurasian founder lineages—M

Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

…, AS Malaspinas, A Eriksson, I Moltke, M Metspalu… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge and …