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The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes.

Swapan Mallick, Adam Micco, Matthew Mah, Harald Ringbauer, Iosif Lazaridis, Iñigo Olalde, Nick Patterson, David Reich

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Article in Scientific data, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 272 papers.

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272 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Swapan MallickDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. shop@genetics.med.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4531-4439
Adam MiccoDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Matthew MahDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8987-6436
Harald RingbauerDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4884-9682
Iosif LazaridisDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4094-9347
Iñigo OlaldeDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2660-6807
Nick PattersonBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
David ReichDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. reich@genetics.med.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7037-5292

Funding

Solving ascertainment bias in ancient DNA using Ultima Genomics sequencingR01HG012287 · NHGRI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI REICH, DAVID E · 2021 to 2025
$2.7M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG012287
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans. While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the commitment of the paleogenomics community to open data, formats for both raw data and meta-data differ. There is thus a need for uniform curation and a centralized, version-controlled compendium that researchers can download, analyze, and reference. Since 2019, we have been maintaining the Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR), which aims to provide an up-to-date, curated version of the world's published ancient human DNA data, represented at more than a million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at which almost all ancient individuals have been assayed. The AADR has gone through six public releases at the time of writing and review of this manuscript, and crossed the threshold of >10,000 individuals with published genome-wide ancient DNA data at the end of 2022. This note is intended as a citable descriptor of the AADR.

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DNA, AncientGenome, HumanGenomicsHumansPaleontologyDNA, Ancient

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PMID38341426
PMCPMC10858950

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