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Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, November 2015
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Title
Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians
Published in
Nature, November 2015
DOI 10.1038/nature16152
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Authors

Iain Mathieson, Iosif Lazaridis, Nadin Rohland, Swapan Mallick, Nick Patterson, Songül Alpaslan Roodenberg, Eadaoin Harney, Kristin Stewardson, Daniel Fernandes, Mario Novak, Kendra Sirak, Cristina Gamba, Eppie R. Jones, Bastien Llamas, Stanislav Dryomov, Joseph Pickrell, Juan Luís Arsuaga, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Eudald Carbonell, Fokke Gerritsen, Aleksandr Khokhlov, Pavel Kuznetsov, Marina Lozano, Harald Meller, Oleg Mochalov, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Manuel A. Rojo Guerra, Jacob Roodenberg, Josep Maria Vergès, Johannes Krause, Alan Cooper, Kurt W. Alt, Dorcas Brown, David Anthony, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Wolfgang Haak, Ron Pinhasi, David Reich

Abstract

Ancient DNA makes it possible to observe natural selection directly by analysing samples from populations before, during and after adaptation events. Here we report a genome-wide scan for selection using ancient DNA, capitalizing on the largest ancient DNA data set yet assembled: 230 West Eurasians who lived between 6500 and 300 bc, including 163 with newly reported data. The new samples include, to our knowledge, the first genome-wide ancient DNA from Anatolian Neolithic farmers, whose genetic material we obtained by extracting from petrous bones, and who we show were members of the population that was the source of Europe's first farmers. We also report a transect of the steppe region in Samara between 5600 and 300 bc, which allows us to identify admixture into the steppe from at least two external sources. We detect selection at loci associated with diet, pigmentation and immunity, and two independent episodes of selection on height.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Spain 4 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Other 10 <1%
Unknown 1030 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 240 22%
Researcher 184 17%
Student > Bachelor 140 13%
Student > Master 104 10%
Professor 50 5%
Other 169 16%
Unknown 182 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 308 29%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 279 26%
Arts and Humanities 55 5%
Social Sciences 44 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 35 3%
Other 110 10%
Unknown 238 22%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 983. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 March 2024.
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#16,736
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