Journal article
An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia
University of Copenhagen1
Stanford University2
Murdoch University3
Goldfields Land and Sea Council Aboriginal Corporation4
University of Western Australia5
Kitasato University6
University of Bern7
The University of Chicago8
Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées9
Leiden University10
University College London11
BGI Group12
Griffith University Queensland13
Institute for Forensic Genetics14
Max Planck Institute15
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark16
CFB - Metagenomic Systems Biology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark17
University of California at San Diego18
Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark19
Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark20
University of Tartu21
Imperial College London22
University of Cambridge23
Chinese Academy of Sciences24
...and 14 moreWe present an Aboriginal Australian genomic sequence obtained from a 100-year-old lock of hair donated by an Aboriginal man from southern Western Australia in the early 20th century. We detect no evidence of European admixture and estimate contamination levels to be below 0.5%. We show that Aboriginal Australians are descendants of an early human dispersal into eastern Asia, possibly 62,000 to 75,000 years ago.
This dispersal is separate from the one that gave rise to modern Asians 25,000 to 38,000 years ago. We also find evidence of gene flow between populations of the two dispersal waves prior to the divergence of Native Americans from modern Asian ancestors. Our findings support the hypothesis that present-day Aboriginal Australians descend from the earliest humans to occupy Australia, likely representing one of the oldest continuous populations outside Africa.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Pages: | 94-98 |
| ISSN: | 10959203 and 00368075 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.1211177 |
| ORCIDs: | Rasmussen, Simon , Nielsen, Kasper , Lund, Ole , Gupta, Ramneek , 0000-0001-7306-031X , 0000-0003-3936-1850 , 0000-0002-5805-7195 , 0000-0002-6024-0917 , 0000-0003-0316-5866 , 0000-0002-5147-6282 , 0000-0003-0513-6591 and 0000-0002-7081-6748 |
African Continental Ancestry Group Animals Asia Asia, Eastern Asian Continental Ancestry Group Asian People Black People Computer Simulation DNA, Mitochondrial Emigration and Immigration Ethnic Groups Ethnicity European Continental Ancestry Group Far East Gene Flow Gene Frequency Genetics, Population Genome, Human Genome, Mitochondrial Haplotypes Hominidae Humans Linkage Disequilibrium Male Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Oceanic Ancestry Group Phylogeny Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide Sequence Analysis, DNA Western Australia White People
