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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Jones ER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4660371 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20151116
We extend the scope of European palaeogenomics by sequencing the genomes of Late Upper Palaeolithic (13,300 years old, 1.4-fold coverage) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old, 15.4-fold) males from western Georgia in the Caucasus and a Late Upper Palaeolithic (13,700 years old, 9.5-fold) male from Switzerland. While we detect Late Palaeolithic-Mesolithic genomic continuity in both regions, we find that Caucasus hunter-gatherers (CHG) belong to a distinct ancient clade that split from western hunter-g ...[more]