| Literature DB >> 31699931 |
Margaret L Antonio1, Ziyue Gao2,3, Hannah M Moots4, Ron Pinhasi5, Jonathan K Pritchard6,3,7, Michaela Lucci8, Francesca Candilio9,10, Susanna Sawyer11, Victoria Oberreiter11, Diego Calderon1, Katharina Devitofranceschi11, Rachael C Aikens1, Serena Aneli12, Fulvio Bartoli13, Alessandro Bedini14, Olivia Cheronet11, Daniel J Cotter3, Daniel M Fernandes11,15, Gabriella Gasperetti16, Renata Grifoni17, Alessandro Guidi18, Francesco La Pastina10, Ersilia Loreti19, Daniele Manacorda20, Giuseppe Matullo12, Simona Morretta21, Alessia Nava8,22, Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai23, Federico Nomi18, Carlo Pavolini24, Massimo Pentiricci19, Philippe Pergola25, Marina Piranomonte26, Ryan Schmidt27, Giandomenico Spinola28, Alessandra Sperduti22,29, Mauro Rubini30,7, Luca Bondioli22, Alfredo Coppa31.
Abstract
Ancient Rome was the capital of an empire of ~70 million inhabitants, but little is known about the genetics of ancient Romans. Here we present 127 genomes from 29 archaeological sites in and around Rome, spanning the past 12,000 years. We observe two major prehistoric ancestry transitions: one with the introduction of farming and another prior to the Iron Age. By the founding of Rome, the genetic composition of the region approximated that of modern Mediterranean populations. During the Imperial period, Rome's population received net immigration from the Near East, followed by an increase in genetic contributions from Europe. These ancestry shifts mirrored the geopolitical affiliations of Rome and were accompanied by marked interindividual diversity, reflecting gene flow from across the Mediterranean, Europe, and North Africa.Entities:
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Year: 2019 PMID： 31699931 PMCID： PMC7093155 DOI： 10.1126/science.aay6826
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728