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SUBMITTER: Yurtman E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8589978 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yurtman Erinç E Özer Onur O Yüncü Eren E Dağtaş Nihan Dilşad ND Koptekin Dilek D Çakan Yasin Gökhan YG Özkan Mustafa M Akbaba Ali A Kaptan Damla D Atağ Gözde G Vural Kıvılcım Başak KB Gündem Can Yümni CY Martin Louise L Kılınç Gülşah Merve GM Ghalichi Ayshin A Açan Sinan Can SC Yaka Reyhan R Sağlıcan Ekin E Lagerholm Vendela Kempe VK Krzewińska Maja M Günther Torsten T Morell Miranda Pedro P Pişkin Evangelia E Şevketoğlu Müge M Bilgin C Can CC Atakuman Çiğdem Ç Erdal Yılmaz Selim YS Sürer Elif E Altınışık N Ezgi NE Lenstra Johannes A JA Yorulmaz Sevgi S Abazari Mohammad Foad MF Hoseinzadeh Javad J Baird Douglas D Bıçakçı Erhan E Çevik Özlem Ö Gerritsen Fokke F Özbal Rana R Götherström Anders A Somel Mehmet M Togan İnci İ Özer Füsun F
Communications biology 20211112 1
Sheep were among the first domesticated animals, but their demographic history is little understood. Here we analyzed nuclear polymorphism and mitochondrial data (mtDNA) from ancient central and west Anatolian sheep dating from Epipaleolithic to late Neolithic, comparatively with modern-day breeds and central Asian Neolithic/Bronze Age sheep (OBI). Analyzing ancient nuclear data, we found that Anatolian Neolithic sheep (ANS) are genetically closest to present-day European breeds relative to Asia ...[more]