Article
Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory.
Nature communications - 21 Oct 2014
Gamba Cristina, Jones Eppie R, Teasdale Matthew D, McLaughlin Russell L, Gonzalez-Fortes Gloria, Mattiangeli Valeria, Domboróczki László, Kővári Ivett, Pap Ildikó, Anders Alexandra, Whittle Alasdair, Dani János, Raczky Pál, Higham Thomas F G, Hofreiter Michael, Bradley Daniel G, Pinhasi Ron
Abstract excerpt
The Great Hungarian Plain was a crossroads of cultural transformations that have shaped European prehistory. Here we analyse a 5,000-year transect of human genomes, sampled from petrous bones giving consistently excellent endogenous DNA yields, from 13 Hungarian Neolithic, Copper, Bronze and Iron Age burials including two to high (~22 × ) and seven to ~1 × coverage, to investigate the impact of these on Europe's...
Topics
- Ethnicity
- Europe
- Genetics, Population
- Genome, Human
- Genomic Instability
- Genomics
- Genotype
- History, Ancient
- Homozygote
- Humans