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Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European
- Olalde, Iñigo;
- Allentoft, Morten E;
- Sánchez-Quinto, Federico;
- Santpere, Gabriel;
- Chiang, Charleston WK;
- DeGiorgio, Michael;
- Prado-Martinez, Javier;
- Rodríguez, Juan Antonio;
- Rasmussen, Simon;
- Quilez, Javier;
- Ramírez, Oscar;
- Marigorta, Urko M;
- Fernández-Callejo, Marcos;
- Prada, María Encina;
- Encinas, Julio Manuel Vidal;
- Nielsen, Rasmus;
- Netea, Mihai G;
- Novembre, John;
- Sturm, Richard A;
- Sabeti, Pardis;
- Marquès-Bonet, Tomàs;
- Navarro, Arcadi;
- Willerslev, Eske;
- Lalueza-Fox, Carles
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12960Abstract
A complete pre-agricultural European human genome from a ∼7,000-year-old Mesolithic skeleton suggests the existence of a common genomic signature across western and central Eurasia from the Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic, and ancestral alleles in several skin pigmentation genes suggest that the light skin of modern Europeans was not yet ubiquitous in Mesolithic times.
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