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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
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The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana
Nature, Volume 506, No. 7487, Year 2014
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Clovis, with its distinctive biface, blade and osseous technologies, is the oldest widespread archaeological complex defined in North America, dating from 11,100 to 10,700 14 C years before present (bp) (13,000 to 12,600 calendar years bp). Nearly 50 years of archaeological research point to the Clovis complex as having developed south of the North American ice sheets from an ancestral technology. However, both the origins and the genetic legacy of the people who manufactured Clovis tools remain under debate. It is generally believed that these people ultimately derived from Asia and were directly related to contemporary Native Americans. An alternative, Solutrean, hypothesis posits that the Clovis predecessors emigrated from southwestern Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum. Here we report the genome sequence of a male infant (Anzick-1) recovered from the Anzick burial site in western Montana. The human bones date to 10,705 ± 35 14 C years bp (approximately 12,707-12,556 calendar years bp) and were directly associated with Clovis tools. We sequenced the genome to an average depth of 14.4× and show that the gene flow from the Siberian Upper Palaeolithic Mal'ta population into Native American ancestors is also shared by the Anzick-1 individual and thus happened before 12,600 years bp. We also show that the Anzick-1 individual is more closely related to all indigenous American populations than to any other group. Our data are compatible with the hypothesis that Anzick-1 belonged to a population directly ancestral to many contemporary Native Americans. Finally, we find evidence of a deep divergence in Native American populations that predates the Anzick-1 individual. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Rasmussen, Morten
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Anzick, Sarah L.
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Waters, Michael R.
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Skoglund, Pontus
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DeGiorgio, Michael
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Stafford, Thomas W.
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Rasmussen, S. B.
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Moltke, Ida
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Albrechtsen, Anders
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Doyle, Shane M.
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Poznik, G. David
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Gudmundsdottir, Valborg G.
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Yadav, Rachita
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Malaspinas, Anna Sapfo
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Samuel Stockton White, V.
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Allentoft, Morten Erik
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Cornejo, Omar Eduardo
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Tambets, Kristiina
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Eriksson, Anders
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Heintzman, Peter D.
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Karmin, Monika
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Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand
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Meltzer, David J.
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Pierre, Tracey L.
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Stenderup, Jesper
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Saag, Lauri
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Warmuth, Vera M.
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Lopes, Margarida C.
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Malhi, Ripan S.
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Brunak, Søren B.
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Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas E.
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Barnes, Ian M.
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Collins, Matthew J.
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Orlando, Ludovic A.A.
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Balloux, François
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Manica, Andrea
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Gupta, R.
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Metspalu, Mait
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Bustamante, Carlos Daniel
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Jakobsson, Mattias
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Nielsen, Rasmus Wedel
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Willerslev, Eske
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Statistics
Citations: 499
Authors: 42
Affiliations: 26
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1038/nature13025
ISSN:
00280836
e-ISSN:
14764687
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics
Maternal And Child Health
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Participants Gender
Male