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Daniel Wegmann1,2, Garrett Hellenthal3, Joachim Burger4, Farnaz Broushaki4, Mark G Thomas3, Vivian Link1,2, Saioa López3, Lucy van Dorp3, Karola Kirsanow4, Zuzana Hofmanová4, Yoan Diekmann3, Lara M Cassidy5, David Díez-Del-Molino3,6, Athanasios Kousathanas1,2,7, Christian Sell4, Harry K Robson8, Rui Martiniano5, Jens Blöcher4, Amelie Scheu4, Susanne Kreutzer4, Ruth Bollongino4, Dean Bobo9, Hossein Davudi10, Olivia Munoz11, Mathias Currat12, Kamyar Abdi13, Fereidoun Biglari14, Oliver E Craig8, Daniel G Bradley5, Stephen Shennan15, Krishna Veeramah9, Marjan Mashkour16.
Abstract
We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously uncharacterized population that is neither ancestral to the first European farmers nor has contributed substantially to the ancestry of modern Europeans. These people are estimated to have separated from Early Neolithic farmers in Anatolia some 46,000 to 77,000 years ago and show affinities to modern-day Pakistani and Afghan populations, but particularly to Iranian Zoroastrians. We conclude that multiple, genetically differentiated hunter-gatherer populations adopted farming in southwestern Asia, that components of pre-Neolithic population structure were preserved as farming spread into neighboring regions, and that the Zagros region was the cradle of eastward expansion.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID： 27417496 PMCID： PMC5113750 DOI： 10.1126/science.aaf7943
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728