ArticleCurrent biology : CB2014
Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil.
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Anna-Sapfo MalaspinasCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Oscar LaoDepartment of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Hannes SchroederCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, PO Box 9515, 2300 Leiden, The Netherlands.
Morten RasmussenCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Maanasa RaghavanCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Ida MoltkeDepartment of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA; The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløesvej 5, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark.
Paula F CamposCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Francisca Santana SagredoOxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, South Parks Road, Dyson Perrins Building, Oxford University, OX1 3QY, UK.
Simon RasmussenCenter for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet 208, Kgs. Lyngby, DK-2800, Denmark.
Vanessa F GonçalvesCentre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Anders AlbrechtsenThe Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløesvej 5, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark.
Morten E AllentoftCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Philip L F JohnsonDepartment of Biology, Emory University, 1510 Clifton Rd NE, Rm 2006, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Mingkun LiMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Silvia ReisSetor de Antropologia Biológica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Danilo V BernardoInstituto de Ciências Humanas e da Informação - ICHI, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
Michael DeGiorgioDepartment of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, 502 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
Ana T DugganMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Murilo BastosSetor de Antropologia Biológica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Yong WangCentre for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140; Ancestry.com DNA LLC, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
Jesper StenderupCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
J Victor Moreno-MayarCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Søren BrunakCenter for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet 208, Kgs. Lyngby, DK-2800, Denmark.
Thomas Sicheritz-PontenCenter for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet 208, Kgs. Lyngby, DK-2800, Denmark.
Emily HodgesWatson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Gregory J HannonWatson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Ludovic OrlandoCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
T Douglas PriceDepartment of Anthropology 5240 W.H. Sewell Social Science Building 1180 Observatory Dr. University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Jeffrey D JensenEcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Life Sciences, Station 15, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Rasmus NielsenCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Centre for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140.
Jan HeinemeierAMS 14C Dating Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Jesper OlsenAMS 14C Dating Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Claudia Rodrigues-CarvalhoSetor de Antropologia Biológica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Marta Mirazón LahrLCHES, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam St, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK.
Walter A NevesLaboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Bioscience, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Manfred KayserDepartment of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Thomas HighamOxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, South Parks Road, Dyson Perrins Building, Oxford University, OX1 3QY, UK.
Mark StonekingMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: stonekg@eva.mpg.de.
Sergio D J PenaDepartamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Brazil. Electronic address: spena@dcc.ufmg.br.
Eske WillerslevCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Electronic address: ewillerslev@snm.ku.dk.
Natural History Museum Aarhus · DKNatural History Museum of Denmark · DKMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · DETechnical University of Denmark · DKUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · BRAarhus University · DKErasmus MC · NLHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USCentre for Addiction and Mental Health · CAÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHEmory University · USOxford Archaeology · GBPennsylvania State University · USUniversidade de São Paulo · BRUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais · BRUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande · BRUniversity of California, Berkeley · USUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Chicago · USUniversity of Copenhagen · DK
Funding
VIRAL TRANSACTIVATIONP01CA013106 · NCI · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI Camila dos Santos · 1985 to 2026
$116.8MPopulation genetic inference from the adaptive immune systemK99GM104158 · NIGMS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI JOHNSON, PHILIP LEE FALK · 2013 to 2014
$179kCancer Research UK 21143NCI NIH HHS P01 CA013106NIGMS NIH HHS K99 GM104158
Abstract
Understanding the peopling of the Americas remains an important and challenging question. Here, we present (14)C dates, and morphological, isotopic and genomic sequence data from two human skulls from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, part of one of the indigenous groups known as 'Botocudos'. We find that their genomic ancestry is Polynesian, with no detectable Native American component. Radiocarbon analysis of the skulls shows that the individuals had died prior to the beginning of the 19th century. Our findings could either represent genomic evidence of Polynesians reaching South America during their Pacific expansion, or European-mediated transport.
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