Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe's First Farmers Export

@article{citeulike:5793507, abstract = {After the domestication of animals and crops in the Near East some 11,000 years ago, farming had reached much of central Europe by 7500 years before the present. The extent to which these early European farmers were immigrants or descendants of resident hunter-gatherers who had adopted farming has been widely debated. We compared new mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from late European hunter-gatherer skeletons with those from early farmers and from modern Europeans. We find large genetic differences between all three groups that cannot be explained by population continuity alone. Most (82\%) of the ancient hunter-gatherers share mtDNA types that are relatively rare in central Europeans today. Together, these analyses provide persuasive evidence that the first farmers were not the descendants of local hunter-gatherers but immigrated into central Europe at the onset of the Neolithic. 10.1126/science.1176869}, author = {Bramanti, B. and Thomas, M. G. and Haak, W. and Unterlaender, M. and Jores, P. and Tambets, K. and Antanaitis-Jacobs, I. and Haidle, M. N. and Jankauskas, R. and Kind, C. J. and Lueth, F. and Terberger, T. and Hiller, J. and Matsumura, S. and Forster, P. and Burger, J.}, citeulike-article-id = {5793507}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1176869}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5949/137.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5949/137.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19729620}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19729620}, day = {2}, doi = {10.1126/science.1176869}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {demography, geography, human, popgen}, month = {October}, number = {5949}, pages = {137--140}, posted-at = {2009-10-03 00:13:06}, priority = {2}, title = {Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe's First Farmers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1176869}, volume = {326}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5793507 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5793507 N2 - After the domestication of animals and crops in the Near East some 11,000 years ago, farming had reached much of central Europe by 7500 years before the present. The extent to which these early European farmers were immigrants or descendants of resident hunter-gatherers who had adopted farming has been widely debated. We compared new mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from late European hunter-gatherer skeletons with those from early farmers and from modern Europeans. We find large genetic differences between all three groups that cannot be explained by population continuity alone. Most (82%) of the ancient hunter-gatherers share mtDNA types that are relatively rare in central Europeans today. Together, these analyses provide persuasive evidence that the first farmers were not the descendants of local hunter-gatherers but immigrated into central Europe at the onset of the Neolithic. 10.1126/science.1176869 IS - 5949 JF - Science EP - 140 TI - Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe's First Farmers VL - 326 SP - 137 KW - demography KW - geography KW - human KW - popgen AU - Bramanti, B AU - Thomas, MG AU - Haak, W AU - Unterlaender, M AU - Jores, P AU - Tambets, K AU - Antanaitis-Jacobs, I AU - Haidle, MN AU - Jankauskas, R AU - Kind, CJ AU - Lueth, F AU - Terberger, T AU - Hiller, J AU - Matsumura, S AU - Forster, P AU - Burger, J PY - 2009/10/02/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1176869 ER -