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Limited Effect of Y Chromosome Variation on Coronary Artery Disease and Mortality in UK Biobank—Brief Report https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/ATVBAHA.122.317664 Abstract Background: The effect of genetic variation in the male-specific region of the Y chromosome (MSY) on coronary...

Largest European Cities (agglomerations) in History, 7500 BCE - 2020 AD, Top 11 biggest cities in Europe

I don't remember seeing it before, so, for fun, here're frequencies of haplogroups in FTDNA tree (not projects) by flags, which are based on the self-reported MDKA's locations. Although these frequencies are based on about 84,000 samples, they don't necessarily represent modern frequencies in...

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1044480/v1 Abstract The transition to agriculture occurred relatively late in Eastern Europe, leading researchers to debate whether it was a gradual, interactive process or a colonization event. In the forest and forest-steppe regions of Ukraine...

The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi7673 Abstract The origin, development, and legacy of the enigmatic Etruscan civilization from the central region of the Italian peninsula known as Etruria have...

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30487-6 The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant Highlights - Analysis of genome-wide data for nine sites from the Bronze Age Southern Levant - Contemporaneous samples from multiple sites are genetically similar - Migration from the...

There's a second paper (Rivollat et al. 2020) about ancient France. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/629712 Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers "Starting from 12,000 years ago in the...

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/20/1918034117 Ancient genomes from present-day France unveil 7,000 years of its demographic history Abstract Genomic studies conducted on ancient individuals across Europe have revealed how migrations have contributed to its present genetic...

See: https://publications.ub.uni-mainz.de/theses/volltexte/2020/100003475/pdf/100003475.pdf

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-05-11/humans-may-have-reached-europe-earlier-than-thought The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2259-z Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in...

The evolutionary history of extinct and living lions Abstract Lions are one of the world’s most iconic megafauna, yet little is known about their temporal and spatial demographic history and population differentiation. We analyzed a genomic dataset of 20 specimens: two ca. 30,000-y-old cave...

"During a guided tour of the monastery's museum, in the last display case before the exit, something caught Dall'Armellina's attention: a metal sword, about 17 inches long, resembling those she came across in her studies as a Bronze Age weaponry specialist. 'I noticed it immediately,' she told...

See: https://www.en24.news/2020/02/mysterious-skull-could-be-of-pliny-the-elder-biotech.html https://www.lastampa.it/cultura/2020/01/23/news/plinio-il-vecchio-chi-muore-si-rivede-e-suo-il-cranio-ritrovato-all-inizio-del-900-1.38371702/amp/

See: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/03/dont-touch-my-vespa-why-genoa-is-threatening-to-ban-its-icon-of-cool It'd be abt. to become reality: https://www.thelocal.it/20190904/anti-vespa-law-in-italian-birthplace-of-the-iconic-scooter

Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index 2019: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-24/spain-tops-italy-as-world-s-healthiest-nation-while-u-s-slips

New version of myOrigins from today: https://dna-explained.com/2017/04/04/family-tree-dna-myorigins-ethnicity-update-no-april-foolin/