Malaspinas, A-S; Westaway, MC; Muller, C; Sousa, VC; Lao, O; Alves, I; Bergstrom, A; ... Willerslev, E; + view all Malaspinas, A-S; Westaway, MC; Muller, C; Sousa, VC; Lao, O; Alves, I; Bergstrom, A; Athanasiadis, G; Cheng, JY; Crawford, JE; Heupink, TH; Macholdt, E; Peischl, S; Rasmussen, S; Schiffels, S; Subramanian, S; Wright, JL; Albrechtsen, A; Barbieri, C; Dupanloup, I; Eriksson, A; Margaryan, A; Moltke, I; Pugach, I; Korneliussen, TS; Levkivskyi, IP; Moreno-Mayar, JV; Ni, S; Racimo, F; Sikora, M; Xue, Y; Aghakhanian, FA; Brucato, N; Brunak, S; Campos, PF; Clark, W; Ellingvag, S; Fourmile, G; Gerbault, P; Injie, D; Koki, G; Leavesley, M; Logan, B; Lynch, A; Matisoo-Smith, EA; McAllister, PJ; Mentzer, AJ; Metspalu, M; Migliano, AB; Murgha, L; Phipps, ME; Pomat, W; Reynolds, D; Ricaut, F-X; Siba, P; Thomas, MG; Wales, T; Wall, CM; Oppenheimer, SJ; Tyler-Smith, C; Durbin, R; Dortch, J; Manica, A; Schierup, MH; Foley, RA; Lahr, MM; Bowern, C; Wall, JD; Mailund, T; Stoneking, M; Nielsen, R; Sandhu, MS; Excoffier, L; Lambert, DM; Willerslev, E; - view fewer (2016) A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia. Nature , 538 (7624) pp. 207-214. 10.1038/nature18299.
Abstract
The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama–Nyungan languages) and 25 Papuans from the New Guinea Highlands. We find that Papuan and Aboriginal Australian ancestors diversified 25–40 thousand years ago (kya), suggesting pre-Holocene population structure in the ancient continent of Sahul (Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania). However, all of the studied Aboriginal Australians descend from a single founding population that differentiated ~10–32 kya. We infer a population expansion in northeast Australia during the Holocene epoch (past 10,000 years) associated with limited gene flow from this region to the rest of Australia, consistent with the spread of the Pama–Nyungan languages. We estimate that Aboriginal Australians and Papuans diverged from Eurasians 51–72 kya, following a single out-of-Africa dispersal, and subsequently admixed with archaic populations. Finally, we report evidence of selection in Aboriginal Australians potentially associated with living in the desert.
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Article |
Title: |
A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia |
Open access status: |
An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: |
10.1038/nature18299 |
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http://doi.org/10.1038/nature18299 |
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English |
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This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: |
Modern human dispersals, southeast-asia, neanderthal, ancestry, evolution, sequences, populations, europeans, admixture, african, Population genetics, Data processing, Anthropology, Genomics |
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UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
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https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1516136 |
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