The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic

Maanasa Raghavan; Michael DeGiorgio; Anders Albrechtsen; Ida Moltke; Pontus Skoglund; Thorfinn S. Korneliussen; Bjarne Grønnow; Martin Appelt; Hans Christian Gulløv; T. Max Friesen; William Fitzhugh; Helena Malmström; Simon Rasmussen; Jesper Olsen; Linea Melchior; Benjamin T. Fuller; Simon M. Fahrni; Thomas Stafford; Vaughan Grimes; M. A. Priscilla Renouf; Jerome Cybulski; Niels Lynnerup; Marta Mirazon Lahr; Kate Britton; Rick Knecht; Jette Arneborg; Mait Metspalu; Omar E. Cornejo; Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas; Yong Wang; Morten Rasmussen; Vibha Raghavan; Thomas V. O. Hansen; Elza Khusnutdinova; Tracey Pierre; Kirill Dneprovsky; Claus Andreasen; Hans Lange; M. Geoffrey Hayes; Joan Coltrain; Victor A. Spitsyn; Anders Gotherstrom; Ludovic Orlando; Toomas Kivisild; Richard Villems; Michael H. Crawford; Finn C. Nielsen; Jørgen Dissing; Jan Heinemeier; Morten Meldgaard; Carlos Bustamante; Dennis H. O'Rourke; Mattias Jakobsson; M. Thomas P. Gilbert; Rasmus Nielsen; Eske Willerslev

doi:10.1126/science.1255832

The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic

Maanasa Raghavan, Michael DeGiorgio, Anders Albrechtsen, Ida Moltke, Pontus Skoglund, Thorfinn S. Korneliussen, Bjarne Grønnow, Martin Appelt, Hans Christian Gulløv, T. Max Friesen, William Fitzhugh, Helena Malmström, Simon Rasmussen, Jesper Olsen, Linea Melchior, Benjamin T. Fuller, Simon M. Fahrni, Thomas Stafford, Vaughan Grimes, M. A. Priscilla RenoufJerome Cybulski, Niels Lynnerup, Marta Mirazon Lahr, Kate Britton, Rick Knecht, Jette Arneborg, Mait Metspalu, Omar E. Cornejo, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Yong Wang, Morten Rasmussen, Vibha Raghavan, Thomas V. O. Hansen, Elza Khusnutdinova, Tracey Pierre, Kirill Dneprovsky, Claus Andreasen, Hans Lange, M. Geoffrey Hayes, Joan Coltrain, Victor A. Spitsyn, Anders Gotherstrom, Ludovic Orlando, Toomas Kivisild, Richard Villems, Michael H. Crawford, Finn C. Nielsen, Jørgen Dissing, Jan Heinemeier, Morten Meldgaard, Carlos Bustamante, Dennis H. O'Rourke, Mattias Jakobsson, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Rasmus Nielsen, Eske Willerslev

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Abstract

The New World Arctic, the last region of the Americas to be populated by humans, has a relatively well-researched archaeology, but an understanding of its genetic history is lacking. We present genome-wide sequence data from ancient and present-day humans from Greenland, Arctic Canada, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, and Siberia. We show that Paleo-Eskimos (similar to 3000 BCE to 1300 CE) represent a migration pulse into the Americas independent of both Native American and Inuit expansions. Furthermore, the genetic continuity characterizing the Paleo-Eskimo period was interrupted by the arrival of a new population, representing the ancestors of present-day Inuit, with evidence of past gene flow between these lineages. Despite periodic abandonment of major Arctic regions, a single Paleo-Eskimo metapopulation likely survived in near-isolation for more than 4000 years, only to vanish around 700 years ago.

Original language	English
Article number	1255832
Journal	Science
Volume	345
Issue number	6200
Number of pages	9
ISSN	0036-8075
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1255832
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

Alaska
Arctic Regions
Base Sequence
Bone and Bones
Canada
DNA, Mitochondrial
Genome, Human
Greenland
Hair
History, Ancient
Human Migration
Humans
Inuits
Molecular Sequence Data
Siberia
Survivors
Tooth
Alaska USA, North America Nearctic region
Aleutian Islands North Pacific Pacific Ocean
Arctic Ocean Arctic Ocean
Canada North America Nearctic region
Greenland Nearctic region
Siberia Russia, Asia, Europe Palearctic region
archeology
gene flow
genetic prehistory
genome-wide sequence data
geographical distribution
species migration
Primates Mammalia Vertebrata Chordata Animalia (Animals, Chordates, Humans, Mammals, Primates, Vertebrates) - Hominidae [86215] human common Fossil Native American, Inuit
03506, Genetics - Animal
03508, Genetics - Human
03509, Genetics - Population genetics
05000, Physical anthropology and ethnobiology
10062, Biochemistry studies - Nucleic acids, purines and pyrimidines
62520, Chordata: general and systematic - Mammalia
63000, Paleozoology
64500, Paleobiology
Population Studies
GSE59546 Gene Expression Omnibus nucleotide sequence
PRJEB6516 European Nucleotide Archive nucleotide sequence
Anthropology
Human Geography
Paleobiology
Population Genetics
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
POPULATION HISTORY
GENOME SEQUENCE
MTDNA VARIATION
GREENLAND
ADMIXTURE
AMERICA
CANADA
ESKIMO
DORSET
DIVERSITY
Research Articles
GENETICS
ONLINE

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Raghavan, M., DeGiorgio, M., Albrechtsen, A., Moltke, I., Skoglund, P., Korneliussen, T. S., Grønnow, B., Appelt, M., Gulløv, H. C., Friesen, T. M., Fitzhugh, W., Malmström, H., Rasmussen, S., Olsen, J., Melchior, L., Fuller, B. T., Fahrni, S. M., Stafford, T., Grimes, V., ... Willerslev, E. (2014). The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic. Science, 345(6200), Article 1255832. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1255832

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The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic

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