Tag: population genomics
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Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans
Some of us and the ATLAS of a 1000 Ancient genomes team were involved in a new study published in Current Biology. It investigates the origin of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands (Guanche). By leveraging genomes of 11 ancient Guanche individuals we showed a close relationship of them to extant Northwest Africans and leaving up to…
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Prehistoric Europe from a population genomic perspective
In a new publication in Current Opinion in Genetics and Development Torsten Günther and Mattias Jakobsson review the manifestation of demographic events in the genomes of prehistoric Europeans. Günther and Jakobsson. 2016. Genes mirror migrations and cultures in prehistoric Europe — a population genomic perspective. Science Direct, vol. 41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2016.09.004 Genomic information from ancient human remains is beginning to show…