Important papers for newbies to Population Genetics

I thought of adding this here, because I believe it is a very powerful finding of modern population genetics: populations at the four corners of the quadrangle (WHG, EHG, Natufians, Iran_N) had differentiation of FST=0.08-0.15, comparable to the value of 0.09-0.13 seen between present-day West Eurasians and East Asians (Han). In contrast, by the Bronze Age, genetic differentiation between pairs of West Eurasian populations had reached its present-day low levels, today, FST is ≤0.025 for 95% of the pairs of West Eurasian populations and ≤0.046 for all pairs. These results point to a demographic process that established high differentiation across West Eurasia and then reduced this differentiation over time.

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thanks for the information it's really exciting to see how much information that has been procecessedsince my days of writng a newspaper column and being assigne a high scool genetic seminar.
 
This is the link to the paper on the ancient Lombards:

Understanding 6th Century Barbarian Social Organization and Migration through Paleogenomics
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/02/20/268250.full.pdf

This is our discussion on it.
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...gration-thru-Paleogenomics?highlight=Lombards


This is the shareable link for the official Nature version of Mathiesen et al on the genetics of Southeastern Europe. Thanks to Iosif Lazaridis for requesting it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nat...T-DMk0nxhNkasZOyo4D_4jMicB1GvUKizVSR-LMRmndg0
 
Ancient Iberian genetics:

See:

Cristina Valdiosera, Torsten Günther, et al

"
Four millennia of Iberian biomolecular prehistory illustrate the impact of prehistoric migrations at the far end of Eurasia"

http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2018/03/06/1717762115.full.pdf

https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...-the-Bronze-Age-on-Iberia?p=535076#post535076

See Also:

Krishna R. Veeramah, et al (inc. Hellenthal and Burger)
"Population genomic analysis of elongated skulls reveals extensive female-biased immigration in Early Medieval Bavaria"

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/06/1719880115

Discussed here:
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...in-Early-Medieval-Bavaria?p=535052#post535052
 
See: Krishna R. Veeramah, et al (inc. Hellenthal and Burger)
"Population genomic analysis of elongated skulls reveals extensive female-biased immigration in Early Medieval Bavaria"

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/06/1719880115



See also:

"Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations," Science (2018). http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/do...cience.aar8380

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-03-scie...stone-age.html


https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...stry-of-Stone-Age-North-Africans-from-Morocco

https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...Modern-Human-Prehistory-Using-Ancient-Genomes


 
Hi Angela,

Firstly I want to thank you for your advice to read the research papers, as that's all I've been doing since then and I feel that I've learnt a lot.

I read multiple blogs and forums and I've come across Gioiello's claim that CHG are a post-Younger Dryas expansion of (I assume) WHG from around Italy.

From what I've read CHG are modelled as a combination of Basal Eurasian and ANE. In order for Gioiello's idea to be true I assume CHG would be modelled as a combination of WHG and ASI (or a HG group in the direction of India), in order to appear where they are on PCAs plots.

My question is, firstly do I understand the idea, and secondly is this a possibility? Is it possible for CHG to be modelled in two ways, basically as opposing diagonal lines between populations on a PCA, or does something preclude this, perhaps if CHG show no ancestral sharing with WHG?


Edit: I found that CHG are said to have diverged from WHG 25,000 years ago, so that would preclude a post-Younger Dryas expansion.
 
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Reading proposals

Grazie per le proposte di lettura Angela.
Can you suggest me any books talking about population genetics of a more generic and philosophical point of view?
For example I have already read Sforza's book "Geni,popoli e lingue",can you propose texts similar to this?
I mean books where are analyse concept such race, etnies, people, heritage...
 
Grazie per le proposte di lettura Angela.
Can you suggest me any books talking about population genetics of a more generic and philosophical point of view?
For example I have already read Sforza's book "Geni,popoli e lingue",can you propose texts similar to this?
I mean books where are analyse concept such race, etnies, people, heritage...

You might want to take a look at David Reich's book, "Who We Are and How We Got Here", but I would suggest you hold off until the upcoming new edition. Things move so fast in this field that he has already revised it, mostly, I think, because of some recent papers on ancient African dna.

I think he has deliberately modeled it as a sort of sequel to Cavalli Sforza's work.

https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...ience-of-the-Human-Past?highlight=David+Reich
 
@Angela

The Cheddar man paper is hardly essential. The La Brana paper was far more, I'd say. Also, do I miss the CHG paper? Essential because it defines the "Teal" component.

EDIT:



Just saw it.

Beginning with a simple thank-you would have been in order, along with a suggestion for the addition of any important genetics paper you think I might have omitted.

The editorial comment was unnecessary.

Extraordinary that educated adults have to be taught the basics of polite human interaction.
 
I am curious what is thought about this calculator: http://www.y-str.org/2014/12/ancient-calculator.html

It had some interesting results when I ran I1; K1c1; R-U106; H5a1b; and a New World that has only taken autosomal

I haven't tried it Wheal, although now I will.

A separate thread so people can find it would probably be more helpful, so I will start one and transfer your post.
 
I subscribe to this interesting threat, thank you.
 
Hi Angela! I'm a newbie and wanted to thank you for making this thread, and for continuing to update it.
 
"Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans"
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25173


Discussed here:
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...-of-Native-Americans?highlight=Alaskan+genome


"The Y-chromosome haplogroup C3*-F3918, likely attributed to the Mongol Empire, can be traced to a 2500-year-old "
https://www.nature.com/articles/s10038-017-0357-z

Discussed here:
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...e-source-of-C3*-F3918?highlight=Mongol+Empire


"The Irish DNA Atlas: Revealing Fine-Scale Population Structure and History within Ireland"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17124-4

Discussed here:
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...tory-within-Ireland?highlight=Irish+DNA+Atlas


"Dissecting historical changes of selective pressures in4 the evolution of human pigmentation"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/01/25/253963.full.pdf

Discussed here:
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...ective+pressures+evolution+human+pigmentation

See: Lazaridis et al:
"Paleolithic DNA from the Caucasus reveals core of West Eurasian ancestry"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...23079.full.pdf

Discussed here:
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/37094-Paleolithic-DNA-from-the-Caucasus


"Late Pleistocene genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers from Anatolia"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/earl....full.pdf+html

Discussed here:
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...al-origin-for-the-first-farmers-from-Anatolia
 
As a newbie, this is wonderful to have as a resource in one place. Thanks, Angela. I have been reading my way through.
 

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