Sentences with phrase «african ancient genomes»
Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago.
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His team found the ancient African variants when they scrutinized the genomes of more than 20,000 people in the 1000 Genomes Project and Vanderbilt's BioVU data bank of electronic health rgenomes of more than 20,000 people in the 1000 Genomes Project and Vanderbilt's BioVU data bank of electronic health rGenomes Project and Vanderbilt's BioVU data bank of electronic health records.
Manica is not yet sure if Science will change the title of the paper, «Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture throughout the African continent».
The ancient Mota genome allows researchers to jump to before another major African migration: the Bantu expansion, when speakers of an early Bantu language flowed out of West Africa and into central and southern areas around 3,000 years ago.
By comparing the ancient genome to DNA from modern Africans, the team have been able to show that not only do East African populations today have as much as 25 % Eurasian ancestry from this event, but that African populations in all corners of the continent — from the far West to the South — have at least 5 % of their genome traceable to the Eurasian migration.
The East African man's genome, the first map of ancient human DNA from Africa, helped to determine that a population closely related to Europe's first farmers made major inroads in Africa, the researchers report online October 8 in Science.
«The idea that you can trace recent historical events by integrating ancient genomics and modern genomics is really exciting,» says Sarah Tishkoff, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who compiled the reference database of modern African genomes that Schroeder's team used.
V.J. Schuenemann et al.. Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods.
By comparing the ancient genome to DNA from modern Africans, the team have been able to show that East African populations today have as much as 25 % Eurasian ancestry from this event.