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The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

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Mallick, Swapan, Li, Heng, Lipson, Mark, Mathieson, Iain, Gymrek, Melissa, Racimo, Fernando, Zhao, Mengyao, Chennagiri, Niru +71 more·2016·Nature

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Here we report the Simons Genome Diversity Project data set: high quality genomes from 300 individuals from 142 diverse populations. These genomes include at least 5.8 million base pairs that are not present in the human reference genome. Our analysis reveals key features of the landscape of human genome variation, including that the rate of accumulation of mutations has accelerated by about 5% in non-Africans compared to Africans since divergence. We show that the ancestors of some pairs of present-day human populations were substantially separated by 100,000 years ago, well before the archaeologically attested onset of behavioural modernity. We also demonstrate that indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andamanese do not derive substantial ancestry from an early dispersal of modern humans; instead, their modern human ancestry is consistent with coming from the same source as that of other non-Africans.

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  • Papuans and Indigenous Australians carry the largest amount of Denisovan introgression (~1% to 5%), followed by East and South Asians (~0.06% to 0.5%), and Indigenous Americans (~0.05% to 0.4%).

    “It has been shown that Papuans and Indigenous Australians carry the largest amount of Denisovan introgression (∼1% to 5%), followed by East and South Asians (∼0.06% to 0.5%), and Indigenous Americans (∼0.05% to 0.4%) (Reich et al. 2010; Racimo et al. 2015; Mallick et al. 2016; Sankararaman et al. 2016; Browning et al. 2018).”

    From The Human Accelerated Region HAR202 Controls <i>NPAS3</i> Expression in the Developing Forebrain Displaying Differential Enhancer Activity Between Modern and Archaic Human Sequences (2024) · cites this paper as Mallick et al. 2016

    In “The structure of human genetic diversity” (page unavailable), the paper says Australo-Melanesians have Denisovan ancestry and other eastern non-Africans have less; it also reports suggestive evidence of excess Denisovan ancestry in some South Asians. Our copy does not give the claimed percentage ranges or establish the stated ranking for Indigenous Americans. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  • The approach can artificially shorten haplotype block lengths, especially for populations such as Papuans and Australians that were absent from the 1000 Genomes Project panel used for phasing.

    “We caution, however, that our approach can artificially shorten haplotype block lengths (see Supplementary Methods and figs. S21 and S22), especially for populations such as Papuans and Australians that were absent from the 1000 Genomes Project panel (24) that was used for phasing (14).”
  • Applying the approach to Neanderthal aSNPs segregating within present-day West Eurasians replicates most of the findings, as well as previously reported signals including a depletion of Neanderthal variants within enhancer-like elements.

    “Applying our approach to Neanderthal aSNPs segregating within present-day West Eurasians [31] replicates most of our findings, as well as previously reported signals including a depletion of Neanderthal variants within enhancer-like elements [12].”

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Mallick, S., Li, H., Lipson, M., Mathieson, I., Gymrek, M., Racimo, F., Zhao, M., Chennagiri, N., Nordenfelt, S., Tandon, A., Skoglund, P., Lazaridis, I., Sankararaman, S., Fu, Q., Rohland, N., Renaud, G., Erlich, Y., Willems, T., Gallo, C., Spence, J. P., Song, Y. S., Poletti, G., Balloux, F., van Driem, G., de Knijff, P., Romero, I. G., Jha, A. R., Behar, D. M., Bravi, C. M., Capelli, C., Hervig, T., Moreno-Estrada, A., Posukh, O. L., Balanovska, E., Balanovsky, O., Karachanak-Yankova, S., Sahakyan, H., Toncheva, D., Yepiskoposyan, L., Tyler-Smith, C., Xue, Y., Abdullah, M. S., Ruiz-Linares, A., Beall, C. M., Di Rienzo, A., Jeong, C., Starikovskaya, E. B., Metspalu, E., Parik, J., Villems, R., Henn, B. M., Hodoglugil, U., Mahley, R., Sajantila, A., Stamatoyannopoulos, G., Wee, J. T. S., Khusainova, R., Khusnutdinova, E., Litvinov, S., Ayodo, G., Comas, D., Hammer, M. F., Kivisild, T., Klitz, W., Winkler, C. A., Labuda, D., Bamshad, M., Jorde, L. B., Tishkoff, S. A., Watkins, W. S., Metspalu, M., Dryomov, S., Sukernik, R., Singh, L., Thangaraj, K., Pääbo, S., Kelso, J., Patterson, N., & Reich, D.
Affiliations
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
  • New York Genome Center (US)
  • Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (PE)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Nanyang Technological University (SG)
  • University of Chicago (US)
  • Estonian Biocentre (EE)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • University of Bergen (NO)
  • Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
  • Research Centre for Medical Genetics (RU)
  • Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (RU)
  • Medical University of Sofia (BG)
  • Institute of Molecular Biology (AM)
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
  • Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha Hospital (BN)
  • Case Western Reserve University (US)
  • Estonian Academy of Sciences (EE)
  • Stony Brook University (US)
  • Gladstone Institutes (US)
  • University of Helsinki (FI)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • National Cancer Centre Singapore (SG)
  • Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (KE)
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
  • University of Arizona (US)
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (US)
  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (CA)
  • University of Utah (US)
  • Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (IN)
Corresponding author
  • Mallick, Swapan
  • Reich, David
Venue
Nature
Published
2016-09-21
Volume
538
Issue
7624
Pages
201-206
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2522993044
Cited by
1,584
References
47
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109.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
  • National Science Foundation (1153911, 0924726, 02543, 1032255)
  • Wellcome Trust (098051)
  • Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
  • European Commission (15,16, 28,29)
  • Russian Foundation for Basic Research (16-06-00364, 16-06-00303)
  • Eesti Teadusagentuur (IUT24-1, IUT2-4)
  • Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
  • Vetenskapsrådet (16,17, 02543, 2014-453)
  • Tartu Ülikool
  • National Institutes of Health (5ul1tr001067-05, 16,17, 10,11, GM100233)
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/H008802/1, BB/H008802/2)
  • European Regional Development Fund (IUT24-1)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG006399)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM113657, R01GM059290, R01GM100233, R00GM111744, R01GM094402)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK104339)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (DP1ES022577)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1-TR001067)
  • FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (261213)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
Keywords
human genetic variation, dispersal out of Africa, human ancestry, mutation rate, African populations, Aboriginal Australians, Papuans, Andamanese, Indigenous Australians, non-African populations
MeSH terms
Animals, Australia, Genetics, Population, Humans, New Guinea, Phylogeny, Species Specificity, Time Factors, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Genomics, Black People, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Racial Groups, History, Ancient, Neanderthals, Mutation Rate, Human Migration, Datasets as Topic

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