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Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers.
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Mark Lipson *Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. mlipson@genetics.med.harvard.edu.
Elizabeth A Sawchuk *Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. esawchuk@ualberta.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4398-2174
Jessica C ThompsonDepartment of Anthropology and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. jessica.thompson@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1627-4949
Jonas OppenheimerDepartment of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Christian A TryonDepartment of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2354-3273
Kathryn L RanhornInstitute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9048-5966
Kathryn M de LunaDepartment of History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3496-2115
Kendra A SirakDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2347-3479
Iñigo OlaldeDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2660-6807
Stanley H AmbroseDepartment of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8785-0512
John W ArthurDepartment of Anthropology, University of South Florida,, St Petersburg, FL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4968-5843
Kathryn J W ArthurDepartment of Anthropology, University of South Florida,, St Petersburg, FL, USA.
George AyodoSchool of Health Sciences, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Bondo, Kenya.
Alex BertacchiDepartment of Anthropology and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2269-2437
Jessica I Cerezo-RománDepartment of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7752-8079
Brendan J CulletonInstitutes of Energy and the Environment, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Matthew C CurtisAnthropology Program, California State University-Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4692-3241
Jacob DavisIndependent researcher, New Haven, CT, USA.
Agness O GidnaNational Museums of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Annalys HansonSol Solutions LLC, Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
Potiphar KalibaMalawi Department of Museums and Monuments, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Maggie KatongoDepartment of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5286-1350
Amandus KwekasonNational Museums of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Myra F LairdDepartment of Integrative Anatomical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8636-0407
Jason LewisDepartment of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8325-1128
Audax Z P MabullaDepartment of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Fredrick MapembaMalawi Department of Museums and Monuments, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Alan MorrisDepartment of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
George MudendaLivingstone Museum, Livingstone, Zambia.
Raphael MwafulirwaMzuzu University, Mzuzu, Malawi.
Daudi MwangombaUniversity of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi.
Emmanuel NdiemaDepartment of Earth Sciences, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
Christine OgolaDepartment of Earth Sciences, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
Flora SchiltInterdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB), FCHS, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2144-3017
Pamela R WilloughbyDepartment of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
David K WrightDepartment of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1704-0423
Andrew ZipkinSchool of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3813-8051
Ron PinhasiDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1629-8131
Douglas J KennettDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6144-7365
Fredrick Kyalo ManthiDepartment of Earth Sciences, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
Nadin RohlandDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Nick PattersonDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
David ReichDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. reich@genetics.med.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7037-5292
Mary E PrendergastDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. mary@rice.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0275-6795
Funding
Solving ascertainment bias in ancient DNA using Ultima Genomics sequencingR01HG012287 · NHGRI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI REICH, DAVID E · 2021 to 2025
$2.7MPopulation mixture in evolutionary and medical geneticsR01GM100233 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI PATTERSON, NICK J, REICH, DAVID E · 2012 to 2019
$2.7MHoward Hughes Medical InstituteNHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG012287NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM100233
Abstract
Multiple lines of genetic and archaeological evidence suggest that there were major demographic changes in the terminal Late Pleistocene epoch and early Holocene epoch of sub-Saharan Africa
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