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Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent.

  • Broushaki F Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
  • Thomas MG Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • Link V Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • López S Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • van Dorp L Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • Kirsanow K Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
  • Hofmanová Z Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
  • Diekmann Y Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • Cassidy LM Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
  • Díez-Del-Molino D Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • Kousathanas A Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • Sell C Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
  • Robson HK BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, YO10 5YW, UK.
  • Martiniano R Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
  • Blöcher J Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
  • Scheu A Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
  • Kreutzer S Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
  • Bollongino R Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
  • Bobo D Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794- 5245, USA.
  • Davudi H Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Munoz O UMR 7041 ArScAn -VEPMO, Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie, 21 allée de l'Université, 92023 Nanterre, France.
  • Currat M Department of Genetics & Evolution-Anthropology Unit, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Abdi K Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, University of California-lrvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3370, USA.
  • Biglari F Paleolithic Department, National Museum of Iran, 113617111, Tehran, Iran.
  • Craig OE BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, YO10 5YW, UK.
  • Bradley DG Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
  • Shennan S Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London WC1H 0PY, UK.
  • Veeramah K Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794- 5245, USA.
  • Mashkour M CNRS/MNHN/SUs - UMR 7209, Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France.
  • Wegmann D Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • Hellenthal G Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
  • Burger J Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
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  • 2016-07-16
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  • Science (New York, N.Y.). - 2016
English We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously uncharacterized population that is neither ancestral to the first European farmers nor has contributed substantially to the ancestry of modern Europeans. These people are estimated to have separated from Early Neolithic farmers in Anatolia some 46,000 to 77,000 years ago and show affinities to modern-day Pakistani and Afghan populations, but particularly to Iranian Zoroastrians. We conclude that multiple, genetically differentiated hunter-gatherer populations adopted farming in southwestern Asia, that components of pre-Neolithic population structure were preserved as farming spread into neighboring regions, and that the Zagros region was the cradle of eastward expansion.
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