Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods

Schuenemann, Verena J., Peltzer, Alexander, Welte, Beatrix, van Pelt, W. Paul, Molak, Martyna, Wang, Chuan-Chao, Furtwängler, Anja, Urban, Christian, Reiter, Ella, Nieselt, Kay, Teßmann, Barbara, Francken, Michael, Harvati, Katerina, Haak, Wolfgang, Schiffels, Stephan, Krause, Johannes·2017·Nature Communications
DOI 10.1038/ncomms15694

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