Ancient human parallel lineages within North America contributed to a coastal expansion

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  • C. L. Scheib
    Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK.
  • Hongjie Li
    Department of Anthropology and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
  • Tariq Desai
    Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK.
  • Vivian Link
    Department of Biology, Université de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • Christopher Kendall
    Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S2, Canada.
  • Genevieve Dewar
    Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S2, Canada.
  • Peter William Griffith
    Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK.
  • Alexander Mörseburg
    Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK.
  • John R. Johnson
    Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA.
  • Amiee Potter
    Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97232, USA.
  • Susan L. Kerr
    Department of Anthropology, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA 95350, USA.
  • Phillip Endicott
    Department Hommes Natures Societies, Musée de l’Homme, Paris 75016, France.
  • John Lindo
    Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
  • Marc Haber
    Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK.
  • Yali Xue
    Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK.
  • Chris Tyler-Smith
    Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK.
  • Manjinder S. Sandhu
    Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK.
  • Joseph G. Lorenz
    Department of Anthropology and Museum Studies, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA 98926, USA.
  • Tori D. Randall
    Department of Anthropology, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA 92101, USA.
  • Zuzana Faltyskova
    Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK.
  • Luca Pagani
    Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia.
  • Petr Danecek
    Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK.
  • Tamsin C. O’Connell
    Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK.
  • Patricia Martz
    Department of Anthropology, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA.
  • Alan S. Boraas
    Kenai Peninsula College, Soldotna, AK 99669, USA.
  • Brian F. Byrd
    Far Western Anthropological Research Group Inc., Davis, CA 95618, USA.
  • Alan Leventhal
    Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, P.O. Box 360791, Milpitas, CA 95036, USA.
  • Rosemary Cambra
    Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, P.O. Box 360791, Milpitas, CA 95036, USA.
  • Ronald Williamson
    Archaeological Services Inc., Toronto, Canada.
  • Louis Lesage
    Huron-Wendat Nation, Canada.
  • Brian Holguin
    Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
  • Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto
    Barbareño Chumash, California Indian Advisory Committee, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA.
  • JohnTommy Rosas
    Tongva Nation, CA, USA.
  • Mait Metspalu
    Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia.
  • Jay T. Stock
    Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK.
  • Andrea Manica
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
  • Aylwyn Scally
    Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK.
  • Daniel Wegmann
    Department of Biology, Université de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • Ripan S. Malhi
    Department of Anthropology and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
  • Toomas Kivisild
    Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK.

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<jats:title>Founder effects in modern populations</jats:title> <jats:p> The genomes of ancient humans can reveal patterns of early human migration (see the Perspective by Achilli <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> ). Iceland has a genetically distinct population, despite relatively recent settlement (∼1100 years ago). Ebenesersdóttir <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> examined the genomes of ancient Icelandic people, dating to near the colonization of Iceland, and compared them with modernday Icelandic populations. The ancient DNA revealed that the founders had Gaelic and Norse origins. Genetic drift since the initial settlement has left modern Icelanders with allele frequencies that are distinctive, although still skewed toward those of their Norse founders. Scheib <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> sequenced ancient genomes from the Channel Islands of California, USA, and Ontario, Canada. The ancient Ontario population was similar to other ancient North Americans, as well as to modern Algonquian-speaking Native Americans. In contrast, the California individuals were more like groups that now live in Mexico and South America. It appears that a genetic split and population isolation likely occurred during the Ice Age, but the peoples remixed at a later date. </jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , this issue p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6392" page="1028" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="360" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aar2625">1028</jats:related-article> , p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6392" page="1024" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="360" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aar6851">1024</jats:related-article> ; see also p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6392" page="964" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="360" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aat7257">964</jats:related-article> </jats:p>

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  • Science

    Science 360 (6392), 1024-1027, 2018-06

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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