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

Venue: Nature

Type: Publication

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 bo... (read more)

DOI: 10.1038/nature16152