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Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

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Fu, Qiaomei, Li, Heng, Moorjani, Priya, Jay, Flora, Slepchenko, Sergey M., Bondarev, Aleksei A., Johnson, Philip L. F., Aximu-Petri, Ayinuer +20 more·2014·Nature

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We present the high-quality genome sequence of a ∼45,000-year-old modern human male from Siberia. This individual derives from a population that lived before-or simultaneously with-the separation of the populations in western and eastern Eurasia and carries a similar amount of Neanderthal ancestry as present-day Eurasians. However, the genomic segments of Neanderthal ancestry are substantially longer than those observed in present-day individuals, indicating that Neanderthal gene flow into the ancestors of this individual occurred 7,000-13,000 years before he lived. We estimate an autosomal mutation rate of 0.4 × 10(-9) to 0.6 × 10(-9) per site per year, a Y chromosomal mutation rate of 0.7 × 10(-9) to 0.9 × 10(-9) per site per year based on the additional substitutions that have occurred in present-day non-Africans compared to this genome, and a mitochondrial mutation rate of 1.8 × 10(-8) to 3.2 × 10(-8) per site per year based on the age of the bone.

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  • Eurasians are estimated to trace around 2% of their genomes to introgression from archaic humans related to the Vindija Neanderthal.

    “Eurasians are estimated to trace around 2% of their genomes to introgression from archaic humans 2 related to the Vindija Neanderthal 1 .”
  • The finding of little if any Neanderthal ancestry in Basal Eurasians could be explained if the Neanderthal admixture into modern humans 50,000-60,000 years ago largely occurred after the splitting of the Basal Eurasians from other non-Africans.

    “The finding of little if any Neanderthal ancestry in Basal Eurasians could be explained if the Neanderthal admixture into modern humans 50,000-60,000 years ago11 largely occurred after the splitting of the Basal Eurasians from other non-Africans.”
  • The dataset combines the newly reported ancient individuals with previously published ancient data to form a dataset of 281 ancient individuals.

    “We combined our data with previously published ancient data7,8,9,10,8,10-15 to form a dataset of 281 ancient individuals.”
  • The Ust'-Ishim genome shows genomic segments of Neanderthal ancestry that are ~1.8-4.2 times longer than those observed in present-day individuals.

    “The genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human male named Ust’-Ishim (after the region in Siberia where he was discovered), shows genomic segments of Neanderthal ancestry that are ~1.8–4.2 times longer than those observed in present-day individuals”
  • The Neanderthal gene flow occurred 232-430 generations before Ust'-Ishim lived, or approximately 50,000-60,000 ya.

    “suggesting that the Neanderthal gene flow occurred 232–430 generations before Ust’-Ishim lived, or approximately 50,000–60,000 ya [17], narrowing the previous range.”

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Fu, Q., Li, H., Moorjani, P., Jay, F., Slepchenko, S. M., Bondarev, A. A., Johnson, P. L. F., Aximu-Petri, A., Prüfer, K., de Filippo, C., Meyer, M., Zwyns, N., Salazar-García, D. C., Kuzmin, Y. V., Keates, S. G., Kosintsev, P. A., Razhev, D. I., Richards, M. P., Peristov, N. V., Lachmann, M., Douka, K., Higham, T. F. G., Slatkin, M., Hublin, J.-J., Reich, D., Kelso, J., Viola, T. B., & Pääbo, S.
Affiliations
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (RU)
  • Emory University (US)
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
  • V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy (RU)
  • Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (RU)
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
  • Santa Fe Institute (US)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
  • Fu, Qiaomei
  • Reich, David
  • Kelso, Janet
Venue
Nature
Published
2014-10
Volume
514
Issue
7523
Pages
445-449
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W1975749505
Cited by
1,023
References
37
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FWCI
490.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
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  • Repository of Digital Objects for Teaching Research and Culture (University of Valencia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM040282, K99GM104158, GM100233, R01GM100233, R01‑GM40282, F32GM115006)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
Neanderthal ancestry, mutation rate estimation, mitochondrial mutation rate, Western Siberia, Denisovans
MeSH terms
Alleles, Animals, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12, Diet, Fossils, Humans, Hybridization, Genetic, Male, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Population Density, Population Dynamics, Siberia, Genome, Human, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Evolution, Molecular, Principal Component Analysis, Neanderthals, Mutation Rate

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