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The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran.
Scientific reports - 9 Aug 2016
Gallego-Llorente M, Connell S, Jones E R, Merrett D C, Jeon Y, Eriksson A, Siska V, Gamba C, Meiklejohn C, Beyer R, Jeon S, Cho Y S, Hofreiter M, Bhak J, Manica A, Pinhasi R
Abstract excerpt
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...
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