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A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia.

Kim-Louise Krettek, Andrea Casas-Vargas, Alex Mas-Sandoval, Leonardo Arias Alvis, Ella Reiter, Julie Moncada Madero, Matthias Urban, Juan Camilo Niño Vargas, William Usaquén, Jose Vicente Rodríguez Cuenca and 1 more

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Kim-Louise KrettekSenckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0009-0006-7631-1974
Andrea Casas-VargasGrupo de Genética de Poblaciones e Identificación, Instituto de Genética, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0003-4374-757X
Alex Mas-SandovalDipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati," Universitá di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1712-9404
Leonardo Arias AlvisDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Ella ReiterArcheo- and Paleogenetics, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Julie Moncada MaderoGrupo de Genética de Poblaciones e Identificación, Instituto de Genética, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Matthias UrbanCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique "Dynamique du Langage" (UMR5596) and Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France.
Juan Camilo Niño VargasDepartment of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0001-8384-0432
William UsaquénGrupo de Genética de Poblaciones e Identificación, Instituto de Genética, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Jose Vicente Rodríguez CuencaGrupo de Investigación en Antropología Biológica, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Cosimo PosthSenckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8206-3907

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Abstract

Genetic studies on Native American populations have transformed our understanding of the demographic history of the Americas. However, a region that has not been investigated through ancient genomics so far is Colombia, the entry point into South America. Here, we report genome-wide data of 21 individuals from the Bogotá Altiplano in Colombia between 6000 and 500 years ago. We reveal that preceramic hunter-gatherers represent a previously unknown basal lineage that derives from the initial South American radiation. These hunter-gatherers do not carry differential affinity to ancient North American groups nor contribute genetically to ancient or present-day South American populations. By 2000 years ago, the local genetic ancestry is replaced by populations from Central America associated with the Herrera ceramic complex and survives through the Muisca period despite major cultural changes. These ancient Altiplano individuals show higher affinities to Chibchan speakers from the Isthmus of Panama than to Indigenous Colombians, suggesting a dilution of the Chibchan-related ancestry through subsequent dispersal events.

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Genetics, PopulationGenome, HumanGenomicsIndians, South AmericanColombiaHumansPhylogeny

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