Sentences with phrase «paleogeneticist johannes»

The DNA shows an unexpected hereditary link to the Denisovans, Neandertals» genetic cousins that lived in East Asia at least 44,000 years ago, say paleogeneticist Matthias Meyer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues.

Since the idea of sequencing the Neandertal genome became more than a glimmer in a paleogeneticist's eye, some have asked, «Could we, should we, would we, bring this extinct human species back to life?»

Not much nuclear DNA survives in such ancient fossils, say paleogeneticist Matthias Meyer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues.

«This is the genetic recipe for being a modern human,» says team leader Svante Pääbo, a paleogeneticist at the institute.

For the ancient DNA analysis, the team used methods pioneered by paleogeneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen to recover and sequence genetic material left behind in sediments even after the plants that originally contained it have disintegrated.

The sample of 15 skeletons from Syria is too small to represent all of the early Middle Eastern farming populations, says Guido Brandt, a paleogeneticist at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany.

«It is clearly great that [genetic] data has become available» from these ancient groups, says Marie - France Deguilloux, a paleogeneticist from the University of Bordeaux in France, who adds that having such DNA sequences is «crucial» to tracing the spread of farming to Europe.

«The two Devil's Gate Cave samples are hunter - gatherers and thus the results say little about the spread of the [fully developed] agricultural package,» says paleogeneticist David Reich of Harvard University.

With this history in mind, paleogeneticist Ludovic Orlando at CNRS, the French national research agency in Toulouse, and the University of Copenhagen decided to analyze the ancient DNA of these horses.

Instead, at least one group of hunter - gatherers clung to its culture for a surprisingly long time despite regularly crossing paths with farmers, paleogeneticist Ruth Bollongino of the University of Mainz in Germany and her colleagues report October 10 in Science.

On February 12, 2009 (the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth), paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany announced that he and a team of researchers had sequenced about 63 percent of the Neanderthal genome.

In the journal Antiquity last month, Kristiansen and paleogeneticist Eske Willerslev at the University of Copenhagen reported that the sex ratios of the earliest Yamnaya burials in central Europe suggest that the new arrivals were mostly men.

«This suggests that it was quite a different disease in the Bronze Age from what it was in medieval times,» says Johannes Krause, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who was not involved with the study.

A team led by paleogeneticist Morten Rasmussen of the University of Copenhagen reports the findings online June 18 in Nature.

«The continuity is remarkable,» says paleogeneticist Carles Lalueza - Fox of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, who was not involved with the work.

The Hayes team therefore worked with the world's leading laboratory in ancient DNA research, namely that of paleogeneticist Professor Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolgy in Leipzig, Germany, who successfully sequenced a Neanderthal.

But whoever these people were, their descendants successfully spread far and wide, for their genes show up not only in Europeans but also in Native Americans, according to a talk by paleogeneticist Johannes Krause of the University of Tübingen in Germany, who spoke at a biomolecular archaeology meeting last week.

But the woman, who passed her mtDNA down through the Neanderthal lineage, was not necessarily an anatomically modern human, notes paleogeneticist Johannes Krause, a co-author of the study.

Practically nobody believed you could read a Neanderthal's genes until 2010, when the paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo successfully sequenced DNA from three Neanderthal skeletons found in Croatia.

Researchers sequenced nuclear DNA from three molars from layer 11 and a child's molar from a deeper layer, 22, according to a talk by graduate student Viviane Slon, who works in the lab of paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

«The paper is very exciting because it is the first genome to fill a really big gap, both geographically and temporally, in East Asia,» says paleogeneticist Pontus Skoglund of Harvard Medical School in Boston, who was not involved in the work.

«I find it interesting that... some of the early modern colonizers of Eurasia were successful while others were not,» says co-author Svante Pääbo, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

In the first genome - wide study of an ancient East Asian, researchers led by Qiaomei Fu, a paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, extracted DNA from the thighbone of the Tianyuan Man — so named because he was found in Tianyuan Cave, 56 kilometers southwest of Beijing.

Several paleogeneticists agree that the study has shown remarkable continuity between the ancient cave women and the Ulchi.