Authors: Alessandro Raveane, Serena Aneli, Francesco Montinaro, Georgios Athanasiadis, Simona Barlera, Giovanni Birolo, Giorgio B. Boncoraglio, A. M. Di Blasio, C. Di Gaetano, Luca Pagani, Silvia Parolo, Peristera Paschou, Alberto Piazza, George Stamatoyannopoulos, Andrea Angius, Nicolas Brucato, Francesco Cucca, Garrett Hellenthal, Antonella Mulas, M. Peyret-Guzzon, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Abdellatif Baali, Clare Bycroft, Mohammed Cherkaoui, Jacques Chiaroni, J. Di Cristofaro, Christian Dina, Jean-Michel Dugoujon, Pilar Galan, Joanna Giemza, Toomas Kivisild, Stéphane Mazières, Mohammed Melhaoui, Mait Metspalu, Simon Myers, Luísa Pereira, François-Xavier Ricaut, Francesca Brisighelli, Irene Cardinali, Viola Grugni, Hovirag Lancioni, Vincenzo Lorenzo Pascali, Antonio Torroni, Ornella Semino, Giuseppe Matullo, Alessandro Achilli, Anna Olivieri, Cristian Capelli
Venue: Science Advances
Type: Publication
Abstract: European populations display low genetic differentiation as the result of long-term blending of their ancient founding ancestries. However, it is unclear how the combination of ancient ancestries related to early foragers, Neolithic farmers, and Bronze Age nomadic pastoralists can explain the distribution of genetic variation across Europe. Populations in natural crossroads like the Italian peninsula are expected to recapitulate the continental diversity, but have been systematically understudied. Here, we characterize the ancestry profiles of ...
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Topics: 
Evolutionary biology
Archaeology
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