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Genomic history and selection in Roman and early medieval Britain
2026-04-29
Abstract excerpt
Leading biomedical resources rely on genome variation in Britain 1–3 , but the historical processes that shaped present-day fine-scale diversity remain debated 4–13 . Here we sequenced 1039 ancient shotgun genomes from Britain (median 1.4-fold coverage), primarily dating to the first millennium CE. We imputed ∼660 million variants in the UK Biobank 14–16 and employed genealogy-based ancestry reconstruction. We...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6842aaeb-4c3e-5117-a3d1-a34b94226571
- DOI
- 10.64898/2026.04.28.721361