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Ennab F, Atiomo W. Obesity and female infertility. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol 2023; 89:102336. [PMID: 37279630 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2023.102336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Infertility is a significant global health issue, with a negative impact on people's wellbeing and human rights. Despite the longstanding association between obesity and infertility, there remains uncertainty, about the precise mechanisms underpinning this association and best management strategies. In this article, we aimed to address these uncertainties by reviewing the recent literature, and focusing on studies which evaluated live birth rates. We found that just over half of the studies, investigating the relationship between preconception maternal weight and live birth rates found an inverse correlation. There was, however, insufficient evidence, that preconception maternal lifestyle or pharmacological interventions in obese women with infertility, resulted in improved live birth rates. The implications for clinical practice and future research are highlighted. For example, the need to consider some flexibility in applying strict preconception body mass index targets, limiting access to fertility treatment, and a need for large clinical trials of new pharmacological options and bariatric surgery.
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- Farah Ennab
- College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine, and Health Sciences, Building 14, Al Razi St., Umm Hurair 2, Dubai Healthcare City, P.O. Box 505055, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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- College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine, and Health Sciences, Building 14, Al Razi St., Umm Hurair 2, Dubai Healthcare City, P.O. Box 505055, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Ventresca Miller AR, Johnson J, Makhortykh S, Gerling C, Litvinova L, Andrukh S, Toschev G, Zech J, le Roux P, Makarewicz C, Boivin N, Roberts P. Re-evaluating Scythian lifeways: Isotopic analysis of diet and mobility in Iron Age Ukraine. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0245996. [PMID: 33690634 PMCID: PMC7946291 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The Scythians are frequently presented, in popular and academic thought alike, as highly mobile warrior nomads who posed a great economic risk to growing Mediterranean empires from the Iron Age into the Classical period. Archaeological studies provide evidence of first millennium BCE urbanism in the steppe while historical texts reference steppe agriculture, challenging traditional characterizations of Scythians as nomads. However, there have been few direct studies of the diet and mobility of populations living in the Pontic steppe and forest-steppe during the Scythian era. Here, we analyse strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotope data from human tooth enamel samples, as well as nitrogen and carbon isotope data of bone collagen, at several Iron Age sites across Ukraine commonly associated with ‘Scythian’ era communities. Our multi-isotopic approach demonstrates generally low levels of human mobility in the vicinity of urban locales, where populations engaged in agro-pastoralism focused primarily on millet agriculture. Some individuals show evidence for long-distance mobility, likely associated with significant inter-regional connections. We argue that this pattern supports economic diversity of urban locales and complex trading networks, rather than a homogeneous nomadic population.
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- Alicia R. Ventresca Miller
- Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeology, Stable Isotope Group, Jena, Germany
- Graduate School of Human Development in Landscapes, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- * E-mail: ,
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America
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- Institute of Archaeology of National Academy of Sciences Ukraine (NUAS), Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Archaeology of National Academy of Sciences Ukraine (NUAS), Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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- Graduate School of Human Development in Landscapes, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeology, Stable Isotope Group, Jena, Germany
- School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeology, Stable Isotope Group, Jena, Germany
- School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Dryomov SV, Nazhmidenova AM, Starikovskaya EB, Shalaurova SA, Rohland N, Mallick S, Bernardos R, Derevianko AP, Reich D, Sukernik RI. Mitochondrial genome diversity on the Central Siberian Plateau with particular reference to the prehistory of northernmost Eurasia. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0244228. [PMID: 33507977 PMCID: PMC7842996 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Central Siberian Plateau was the last geographic area in Eurasia to become habitable by modern humans after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Through a comprehensive dataset of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genomes retained in the remnats of earlier ("Old") Siberians, primarily the Ket, Tofalar, and Todzhi, we explored genetic links between the Yenisei-Sayan region and Northeast Eurasia (best represented by the Yukaghir) over the last 10,000 years. We generated 218 new complete mtDNA sequences and placed them into compound phylogenies with 7 newly obtained and 70 published ancient mitochondrial genomes. We have considerably extended the mtDNA sequence diversity (at the entire mtDNA genome level) of autochthonous Siberians, which remain poorly sampled, and these new data may have a broad impact on the study of human migration. We compared present-day mtDNA diversity in these groups with complete mitochondrial genomes from ancient samples from the region and placed the samples into combined genealogical trees. The resulting components were used to clarify the origins and expansion history of mtDNA lineages that evolved in the refugia of south-central Siberia and beyond, as well as multiple phases of connection between this region and distant parts of Eurasia.
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- Stanislav V. Dryomov
- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, SBRAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, SBRAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, SBRAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, SBRAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, SBRAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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Saag L, Vasilyev SV, Varul L, Kosorukova NV, Gerasimov DV, Oshibkina SV, Griffith SJ, Solnik A, Saag L, D'Atanasio E, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Rootsi S, Kivisild T, Scheib CL, Tambets K, Kriiska A, Metspalu M. Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:7/4/eabd6535. [PMID: 33523926 PMCID: PMC7817100 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd6535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The transition from Stone to Bronze Age in Central and Western Europe was a period of major population movements originating from the Ponto-Caspian Steppe. Here, we report new genome-wide sequence data from 30 individuals north of this area, from the understudied western part of present-day Russia, including 3 Stone Age hunter-gatherers (10,800 to 4250 cal BCE) and 26 Bronze Age farmers from the Corded Ware complex Fatyanovo Culture (2900 to 2050 cal BCE). We show that Eastern hunter-gatherer ancestry was present in northwestern Russia already from around 10,000 BCE. Furthermore, we see a change in ancestry with the arrival of farming-Fatyanovo Culture individuals were genetically similar to other Corded Ware cultures, carrying a mixture of Steppe and European early farmer ancestry. Thus, they likely originate from a fast migration toward the northeast from somewhere near modern-day Ukraine-the closest area where these ancestries coexisted from around 3000 BCE.
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- Lehti Saag
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia.
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- Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Archaeological Research Collection, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallinn 10130, Estonia
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- Cherepovets State University and Cherepovets Museum Association, Cherepovets 162600, Russia
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- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, National Research Council, Rome 00185, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- St. John's College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TP, UK
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia.
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia.
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Łukasik S, Bijak J, Krenz-Niedbała M, Sinika V. Paleodemographic analysis of age at death for a population of Black Sea Scythians: An exploration by using Bayesian methods. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2020; 174:595-613. [PMID: 33382089 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2020] [Revised: 11/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Studies of the demography of past populations involving deterministic life tables can be criticized for ignoring the errors of estimation. Bayesian methods offer an alternative, by focusing on the uncertainty of the estimates, although their results are often sensitive to the choice of prior distributions. The aim of this study is to explore a range of Bayesian methods for estimating age at death for a population of nomadic warriors-Scythians from the Black Sea region. MATERIALS AND METHODS In total, skeletons of 312 individuals (93 children and 219 adults) from Glinoe (Moldova), dated to the 5th-2nd century BCE, were examined. We unified the age categories corresponding to different aging methods, allowing an application of a probabilistic assessment of the age categorization. A hierarchical Bayesian multinomial-Dirichlet-Dirichlet model was applied, with a hypothetical, subjective reference population, a real reference population, and no reference. RESULTS Stationary-population life expectancy was estimated as 27.7 years (95% CI: 25.1-30.3) for a newborn (e0 ), and 16.4 years (14.0-19.0) for 20-year-olds (e20 ), although with high uncertainty, and sensitive to the model specification. Slight differences in longevity between different social strata and between the Classical and Late chronological periods were found, although with high estimation errors. A more robust finding, confirming earlier studies, was a high probability of death in young adulthood, which could depend on Scythian lifestyle (conflicts, wars). DISCUSSION Our study shows a way to overcome some limitations of broad age categorization by using the Bayesian approach with alternative model specifications, allowing to assess the impact of reference populations.
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- Sylwia Łukasik
- Institute of Human Biology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Institute of Human Biology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
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- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Pridnestrovian State University named after T. G. Shevchenko, Tiraspol, Moldova
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Toncheva D, Serbezov D, Karachanak-Yankova S, Nesheva D. Ancient mitochondrial DNA pathogenic variants putatively associated with mitochondrial disease. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0233666. [PMID: 32970680 PMCID: PMC7514063 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial DNA variants associated with diseases are widely studied in contemporary populations, but their prevalence has not yet been investigated in ancient populations. The publicly available AmtDB database contains 1443 ancient mtDNA Eurasian genomes from different periods. The objective of this study was to use this data to establish the presence of pathogenic mtDNA variants putatively associated with mitochondrial diseases in ancient populations. The clinical significance, pathogenicity prediction and contemporary frequency of mtDNA variants were determined using online platforms. The analyzed ancient mtDNAs contain six variants designated as being "confirmed pathogenic" in modern patients. The oldest of these, m.7510T>C in the MT-TS1 gene, was found in a sample from the Neolithic period, dated 5800-5400 BCE. All six have well established clinical association, and their pathogenic effect is corroborated by very low population frequencies in contemporary populations. Analysis of the geographic location of the ancient samples, contemporary epidemiological trends and probable haplogroup association indicate diverse spatiotemporal dynamics of these variants. The dynamics in the prevalence and distribution is conceivably result of de novo mutations or human migrations and subsequent evolutionary processes. In addition, ten variants designated as possibly or likely pathogenic were found, but the clinical effect of these is not yet well established and further research is warranted. All detected mutations putatively associated with mitochondrial disease in ancient mtDNA samples are in tRNA coding genes. Most of these mutations are in a mt-tRNA type (Model 2) that is characterized by loss of D-loop/T-loop interaction. Exposing pathogenic variants in ancient human populations expands our understanding of their origin and prevalence dynamics.
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- Draga Toncheva
- Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences–BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of biology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Hermes TR, Frachetti MD, Voyakin D, Yerlomaeva AS, Beisenov AZ, Doumani Dupuy PN, Papin DV, Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G, Bayarsaikhan J, Houle JL, Tishkin AA, Nebel A, Krause-Kyora B, Makarewicz CA. High mitochondrial diversity of domesticated goats persisted among Bronze and Iron Age pastoralists in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0233333. [PMID: 32437372 PMCID: PMC7241827 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 05/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Goats were initially managed in the Near East approximately 10,000 years ago and spread across Eurasia as economically productive and environmentally resilient herd animals. While the geographic origins of domesticated goats (Capra hircus) in the Near East have been long-established in the zooarchaeological record and, more recently, further revealed in ancient genomes, the precise pathways by which goats spread across Asia during the early Bronze Age (ca. 3000 to 2500 cal BC) and later remain unclear. We analyzed sequences of hypervariable region 1 and cytochrome b gene in the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of goats from archaeological sites along two proposed transmission pathways as well as geographically intermediary sites. Unexpectedly high genetic diversity was present in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC), indicated by mtDNA haplotypes representing common A lineages and rarer C and D lineages. High mtDNA diversity was also present in central Kazakhstan, while only mtDNA haplotypes of lineage A were observed from sites in the Northern Eurasian Steppe (NES). These findings suggest that herding communities living in montane ecosystems were drawing from genetically diverse goat populations, likely sourced from communities in the Iranian Plateau, that were sustained by repeated interaction and exchange. Notably, the mitochondrial genetic diversity associated with goats of the IAMC also extended into the semi-arid region of central Kazakhstan, while NES communities had goats reflecting an isolated founder population, possibly sourced via eastern Europe or the Caucasus region.
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- Taylor R. Hermes
- Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes”, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- * E-mail: (TRH); (CAM)
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- Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Archaeological Expertise, LLC, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- International Institute for Central Asian Studies, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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- The Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology of Western Siberia and Altai, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia
- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and Museology, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Graduate School “Human Development in Landscapes”, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
- * E-mail: (TRH); (CAM)
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Juras A, Makarowicz P, Chyleński M, Ehler E, Malmström H, Krzewińska M, Pospieszny Ł, Górski J, Taras H, Szczepanek A, Polańska M, Włodarczak P, Szyca A, Lasota-Kuś A, Wójcik I, Jakobsson M, Dabert M. Mitochondrial genomes from Bronze Age Poland reveal genetic continuity from the Late Neolithic and additional genetic affinities with the steppe populations. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2020; 172:176-188. [PMID: 32297323 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 03/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVE In this work we aim to investigate the origins and genetic affinities of Bronze Age populations (2,400-1,100 BC) from the region of southern Poland and to trace maternal kinship patterns present in the burials of those populations by the use of complete mitochondrial genomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed ancient DNA analyses for Bronze Age individuals from present-day Poland associated with the Strzyżow culture, the Mierzanowice culture, and the Trzciniec Cultural circle. To obtain complete mitochondrial genomes, we sequenced genomic libraries using Illumina platform. Additionally, hybridization capture was used to enrich some of the samples for mitochondrial DNA. AMS 14 C-dating was conducted for 51 individuals to verify chronological and cultural attribution of the analyzed samples. RESULTS Complete ancient mitochondrial genomes were generated for 80 of the Bronze Age individuals from present-day Poland. The results of the population genetic analyses indicate close maternal genetic affinity between Mierzanowice, Trzciniec, and Corded Ware culture-associated populations. This is in contrast to the genetically more distant Strzyżów people that displayed closer maternal genetic relation to steppe populations associated with the preceding Yamnaya culture and Catacomb culture, and with later Scythians. Potential maternal kinship relations were identified in burials of Mierzanowice and Trzciniec populations analyzed in this study. DISCUSSION Results revealed genetic continuity from the Late Neolithic Corded Ware groups to Bronze Age Mierzanowice and Trzciniec-associated populations, and possible additional genetic contribution from the steppe to the formation of the Strzyżów-associated group at the end of 3rd millennium BC. Mitochondrial patterns indicated several pairs of potentially maternally related individuals mostly in Trzciniec-associated group.
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- Anna Juras
- Institute of Human Biology & Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
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- Institute of Human Biology & Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Studies, Charles University, Faculty of Education, Praha 1, Czech Republic
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University, UPpSala, Sweden
- Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland
- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of History and Cultural Heritage, University of Pope Jan Paweł II, Kraków, Poland
- Archaeological Museum in Cracow, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Material and Spiritual Culture, Lublin Museum, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Human Biology & Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Science, Kraków, Poland
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University, UPpSala, Sweden
- Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Molecular Biology Techniques Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland
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Seidualy M, Blazyte A, Jeon S, Bhak Y, Jeon Y, Kim J, Eriksson A, Bolser D, Yoon C, Manica A, Lee S, Bhak J. Decoding a highly mixed Kazakh genome. Hum Genet 2020; 139:557-568. [PMID: 32076829 PMCID: PMC7170836 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-020-02132-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
We provide a Kazakh whole genome sequence (MJS) and analyses with the largest comparative Kazakh genomic data available to date. We found 102,240 novel SNVs and a high level of heterozygosity. ADMIXTURE analysis confirmed a significant proportion of variations in this individual coming from all continents except Africa and Oceania. A principal component analysis showed neighboring Kalmyk, Uzbek, and Kyrgyz populations to have the strongest resemblance to the MJS genome which reflects fairly recent Kazakh history. MJS's mitochondrial haplogroup, J1c2, probably represents an early European and Near Eastern influence to Central Asia. This was also supported by the heterozygous SNPs associated with European phenotypic features and strikingly similar Kazakh ancestral composition inferred by ADMIXTURE. Admixture (f3) analysis showed that MJS's genomic signature is best described as a cross between the Neolithic East Asian (Devil's Gate1) and the Bronze Age European (Halberstadt_LBA1) components rather than a contemporary admixture.
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- Madina Seidualy
- Korean Genomics Center (KOGIC), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
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- Korean Genomics Center (KOGIC), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
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- Korean Genomics Center (KOGIC), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
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- Korean Genomics Center (KOGIC), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
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- Korean Genomics Center (KOGIC), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
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- Personal Genomics Institute (PGI), Genome Research Foundation, Cheongju, 28160 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King’s College London, London, SE1 9RT UK
- cGEM, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- Geromics Ltd, Office 261, 23 Kings Street, Cambridge, CB1 1AH UK
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- Korean Genomics Center (KOGIC), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ UK
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- Korean Genomics Center (KOGIC), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
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- Korean Genomics Center (KOGIC), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
- Personal Genomics Institute (PGI), Genome Research Foundation, Cheongju, 28160 Republic of Korea
- Clinomics LTD, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919 Republic of Korea
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Aronsen GP, Fehren-Schmitz L, Krigbaum J, Kamenov GD, Conlogue GJ, Warinner C, Ozga AT, Sankaranarayanan K, Griego A, DeLuca DW, Eckels HT, Byczkiewicz RK, Grgurich T, Pelletier NA, Brownlee SA, Marichal A, Williamson K, Tonoike Y, Bellantoni NF. "The dead shall be raised": Multidisciplinary analysis of human skeletons reveals complexity in 19th century immigrant socioeconomic history and identity in New Haven, Connecticut. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0219279. [PMID: 31498793 PMCID: PMC6733446 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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In July 2011, renovations to Yale-New Haven Hospital inadvertently exposed the cemetery of Christ Church, New Haven, Connecticut's first Catholic cemetery. While this cemetery was active between 1833 and 1851, both the church and its cemetery disappeared from public records, making the discovery serendipitous. Four relatively well-preserved adult skeletons were recovered with few artifacts. All four individuals show indicators of manual labor, health and disease stressors, and dental health issues. Two show indicators of trauma, with the possibility of judicial hanging in one individual. Musculoskeletal markings are consistent with physical stress, and two individuals have arthritic indicators of repetitive movement/specialized activities. Radiographic analyses show osteopenia, healed trauma, and other pathologies in several individuals. Dental calculus analysis did not identify any tuberculosis indicators, despite osteological markers. Isotopic analyses of teeth indicate that all four were likely recent immigrants to the Northeastern United States. Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA were recovered from three individuals, and these analyses identified ancestry, hair/eye color, and relatedness. Genetic and isotopic results upended our initial ancestry assessment based on burial context alone. These individuals provide biocultural evidence of New Haven's Industrial Revolution and the plasticity of ethnic and religious identity in the immigrant experience. Their recovery and the multifaceted analyses described here illuminate a previously undescribed part of the city's rich history. The collective expertise of biological, geochemical, archaeological, and historical researchers interprets socioeconomic and cultural identity better than any one could alone. Our combined efforts changed our initial assumptions of a poor urban Catholic cemetery's membership, and provide a template for future discoveries and analyses.
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- Gary P. Aronsen
- Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Historical Anthropology and Human Ecology, Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, United States of America
- Bioanthropology Research Institute, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America
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- Independent Scholar, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Independent Scholar, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Independent Scholar, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of History, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, United States of America
- Bioanthropology Research Institute, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America
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Goth migration induced changes in the matrilineal genetic structure of the central-east European population. Sci Rep 2019; 9:6737. [PMID: 31043639 PMCID: PMC6494872 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43183-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
Abstract
For years, the issues related to the origin of the Goths and their early migrations in the Iron Age have been a matter of hot debate among archaeologists. Unfortunately, the lack of new independent data has precluded the evaluation of the existing hypothesis. To overcome this problem, we initiated systematic studies of the populations inhabiting the contemporary territory of Poland during the Iron Age. Here, we present an analysis of mitochondrial DNA isolated from 27 individuals (collectively called the Mas-VBIA group) excavated from an Iron Age cemetery (dated to the 2nd-4th century A.D.) attributed to Goths and located near Masłomęcz, eastern Poland. We found that Mas-VBIA has similar genetic diversity to present-day Asian populations and higher diversity than that of contemporary Europeans. Our studies revealed close genetic links between the Mas-VBIA and two other Iron Age populations from the Jutland peninsula and from Kowalewko, located in western Poland. We disclosed the genetic connection between the Mas-VBIA and ancient Pontic-Caspian steppe groups. Similar connections were absent in the chronologically earlier Kowalewko and Jutland peninsula populations. The collected results seem to be consistent with the historical narrative that assumed that the Goths originated in southern Scandinavia; then, at least part of the Goth population moved south through the territory of contemporary Poland towards the Black Sea region, where they mixed with local populations and formed the Chernyakhov culture. Finally, a fraction of the Chernyakhov population returned to the southeast region of present-day Poland and established the archaeological formation called the “Masłomęcz group”.
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Klunk J, Duggan AT, Redfern R, Gamble J, Boldsen JL, Golding GB, Walter BS, Eaton K, Stangroom J, Rouillard JM, Devault A, DeWitte SN, Poinar HN. Genetic resiliency and the Black Death: No apparent loss of mitogenomic diversity due to the Black Death in medieval London and Denmark. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2019; 169:240-252. [PMID: 30964548 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2018] [Revised: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVES In the 14th century AD, medieval Europe was severely affected by the Great European Famine as well as repeated bouts of disease, including the Black Death, causing major demographic shifts. This high volatility led to increased mobility and migration due to new labor and economic opportunities, as evidenced by documentary and stable isotope data. This study uses ancient DNA (aDNA) isolated from skeletal remains to examine whether evidence for large-scale population movement can be gleaned from the complete mitochondrial genomes of 264 medieval individuals from England (London) and Denmark. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using a novel library-conserving approach to targeted capture, we recovered 264 full mitochondrial genomes from the petrous portion of the temporal bones and teeth and compared genetic diversity across the medieval period within and between English (London) and Danish populations and with contemporary populations through population pairwise ΦST analysis. RESULTS We find no evidence of significant differences in genetic diversity spatially or temporally in our dataset, yet there is a high degree of haplotype diversity in our medieval samples with little exact sequence sharing. DISCUSSION The mitochondrial genomes of both medieval Londoners and medieval Danes suggest high mitochondrial diversity before, during and after the Black Death. While our mitochondrial genomic data lack geographically correlated signals, these data could be the result of high, continual female migration before and after the Black Death or may simply indicate a large female effective population size unaffected by the upheaval of the medieval period. Either scenario suggests a genetic resiliency in areas of northwestern medieval Europe.
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- Jennifer Klunk
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Center for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London, London, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Unit of Anthropology (ADBOU), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Laboratory, Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Arbor Biosciences, Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,Michael G. DeGroote Institute of Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Genetic kinship and admixture in Iron Age Scytho-Siberians. Hum Genet 2019; 138:411-423. [DOI: 10.1007/s00439-019-02002-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Neparáczki E, Maróti Z, Kalmár T, Kocsy K, Maár K, Bihari P, Nagy I, Fóthi E, Pap I, Kustár Á, Pálfi G, Raskó I, Zink A, Török T. Mitogenomic data indicate admixture components of Central-Inner Asian and Srubnaya origin in the conquering Hungarians. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0205920. [PMID: 30335830 PMCID: PMC6193700 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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It has been widely accepted that the Finno-Ugric Hungarian language, originated from proto Uralic people, was brought into the Carpathian Basin by the conquering Hungarians. From the middle of the 19th century this view prevailed against the deep-rooted Hungarian Hun tradition, maintained in folk memory as well as in Hungarian and foreign written medieval sources, which claimed that Hungarians were kinsfolk of the Huns. In order to shed light on the genetic origin of the Conquerors we sequenced 102 mitogenomes from early Conqueror cemeteries and compared them to sequences of all available databases. We applied novel population genetic algorithms, named Shared Haplogroup Distance and MITOMIX, to reveal past admixture of maternal lineages. Our results show that the Conquerors assembled from various nomadic groups of the Eurasian steppe. Population genetic results indicate that they had closest connection to the Onogur-Bulgar ancestors of Volga Tatars. Phylogenetic results reveal that more than one third of the Conqueror maternal lineages were derived from Central-Inner Asia and their most probable ultimate sources were the Asian Scythians and Asian Huns, giving support to the Hungarian Hun tradition. The rest of the lineages most likely originated from the Bronze Age Potapovka-Poltavka-Srubnaya cultures of the Pontic-Caspian steppe. Available data imply that the Conquerors did not have a major contribution to the gene pool of the Carpathian Basin.
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- Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Health Center, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Health Center, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- SeqOmics Biotechnology Ltd., Mórahalom, Hungary
- Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Anthropology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, EURAC, Bolzano, Italy
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- Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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Krzewińska M, Kılınç GM, Juras A, Koptekin D, Chyleński M, Nikitin AG, Shcherbakov N, Shuteleva I, Leonova T, Kraeva L, Sungatov FA, Sultanova AN, Potekhina I, Łukasik S, Krenz-Niedbała M, Dalén L, Sinika V, Jakobsson M, Storå J, Götherström A. Ancient genomes suggest the eastern Pontic-Caspian steppe as the source of western Iron Age nomads. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2018; 4:eaat4457. [PMID: 30417088 PMCID: PMC6223350 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat4457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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For millennia, the Pontic-Caspian steppe was a connector between the Eurasian steppe and Europe. In this scene, multidirectional and sequential movements of different populations may have occurred, including those of the Eurasian steppe nomads. We sequenced 35 genomes (low to medium coverage) of Bronze Age individuals (Srubnaya-Alakulskaya) and Iron Age nomads (Cimmerians, Scythians, and Sarmatians) that represent four distinct cultural entities corresponding to the chronological sequence of cultural complexes in the region. Our results suggest that, despite genetic links among these peoples, no group can be considered a direct ancestor of the subsequent group. The nomadic populations were heterogeneous and carried genetic affinities with populations from several other regions including the Far East and the southern Urals. We found evidence of a stable shared genetic signature, making the eastern Pontic-Caspian steppe a likely source of western nomadic groups.
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- Maja Krzewińska
- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Health Informatics, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
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- Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89D, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI 49401, USA
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- Laboratory of Methodology and Methods of Humanitarian Research, Bashkir State Pedagogical University, Octyabrskoy Revolutsii, 3A, 450007 Ufa, Russia
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- Laboratory of Methodology and Methods of Humanitarian Research, Bashkir State Pedagogical University, Octyabrskoy Revolutsii, 3A, 450007 Ufa, Russia
- Institute of History and State Management, Bashkir State University, Zaki Validy Street 32, 450076 Ufa, Russia
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- Laboratory of Methodology and Methods of Humanitarian Research, Bashkir State Pedagogical University, Octyabrskoy Revolutsii, 3A, 450007 Ufa, Russia
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- Archaeological Laboratory, Orenburg State Pedagogical University, Orenburg, Russia
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- Archaeological Laboratory, Bashkir State University, Str. Validi Z. 32, Ufa, Russia
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- Archaeological Laboratory, Bashkir State University, Str. Validi Z. 32, Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Post Office Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Taras Shevchenko University in Tiraspol, October Street 25, 33-00 Tiraspol, Moldova
- Nizhnevartovsk State University, Lenin Street, 56, Nizhnevartovsk, 628605, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, Yugra, Russia
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- Subdepartment of Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18 C, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Norbyvägen 18 C, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
- Centre for Anthropological Research and Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg, Post Office Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa
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- Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Lilla Frescativägen 7, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Pilipenko AS, Trapezov RO, Cherdantsev SV, Babenko VN, Nesterova MS, Pozdnyakov DV, Molodin VI, Polosmak NV. Maternal genetic features of the Iron Age Tagar population from Southern Siberia (1st millennium BC). PLoS One 2018; 13:e0204062. [PMID: 30235269 PMCID: PMC6147448 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2018] [Accepted: 08/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Early nomads in the Eurasian steppes since the beginning of the 1st millennium BC played a key role in the formation of the cultural and genetic landscape of populations of a significant part of Eurasia, from Eastern Europe to Eastern Central Asia. Numerous archaeological cultures associated with early nomads have been discovered throughout the Eurasian steppe belt. The Tagar archaeological culture existed in the Minusinsk basin (Sayan Mountains, Southern Siberia, Russia) in the northeastern periphery of the Eurasian steppe belt from the 8th to 1st century BC during the pre-Scythian, Scythian, and Early Xiongnu-Sarmatian periods. In this study, we evaluated mtDNA diversity in the Tagar population based on representative series (N = 79) belonging to all chronological stages of the culture. The Tagar population had a mixed mtDNA pool dominated by Western Eurasian haplogroups and subgroups (H, HV6, HV*, I, K, T, U2e, U4, U5a, and U*) and, to a lesser degree, Eastern Eurasian haplogroups (A*, A8, C*, C5, D, G2a, and F1b). The Tagar population showed a similar mtDNA pool structure to those of other Iron Age populations representing the "Scythian World." We observed particularly high similarity between the Tagar and Classic Scythians from the North Pontic region. Our results support the assumption that genetic components introduced by Bronze Age migrants from Western Eurasia contributed to the formation of the genetic composition of Scythian period populations in Southern Siberia. Another important component of the Tagar mtDNA pool was autochthonous East Eurasian lineages, some of which (A8 and C4a2a) are potential markers of the westward genetic influence of the eastern populations of the Scythian period. Our results suggest a genetic continuity (at least partial) between the Early, Middle, and Late Tagar populations.
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- Aleksandr S. Pilipenko
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Juras A, Chyleński M, Ehler E, Malmström H, Żurkiewicz D, Włodarczak P, Wilk S, Peška J, Fojtík P, Králík M, Libera J, Bagińska J, Tunia K, Klochko VI, Dabert M, Jakobsson M, Kośko A. Mitochondrial genomes reveal an east to west cline of steppe ancestry in Corded Ware populations. Sci Rep 2018; 8:11603. [PMID: 30072694 PMCID: PMC6072757 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29914-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Accepted: 07/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
From around 4,000 to 2,000 BC the forest-steppe north-western Pontic region was occupied by people who shared a nomadic lifestyle, pastoral economy and barrow burial rituals. It has been shown that these groups, especially those associated with the Yamnaya culture, played an important role in shaping the gene pool of Bronze Age Europeans, which extends into present-day patterns of genetic variation in Europe. Although the genetic impact of these migrations from the forest-steppe Pontic region into central Europe have previously been addressed in several studies, the contribution of mitochondrial lineages to the people associated with the Corded Ware culture in the eastern part of the North European Plain remains contentious. In this study, we present mitochondrial genomes from 23 Late Eneolithic and Bronze Age individuals, including representatives of the north-western Pontic region and the Corded Ware culture from the eastern part of the North European Plain. We identified, for the first time in ancient populations, the rare mitochondrial haplogroup X4 in two Bronze Age Catacomb culture-associated individuals. Genetic similarity analyses show close maternal genetic affinities between populations associated with both eastern and Baltic Corded Ware culture, and the Yamnaya horizon, in contrast to larger genetic differentiation between populations associated with western Corded Ware culture and the Yamnaya horizon. This indicates that females with steppe ancestry contributed to the formation of populations associated with the eastern Corded Ware culture while more local people, likely of Neolithic farmer ancestry, contributed to the formation of populations associated with western Corded Ware culture.
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- Anna Juras
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland.
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- Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Umultowska 89D, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
- Laboratory of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the ASCR, v. v. i., Vídeňská 1083, 142 20, Prague 4, Czech Republic
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
- Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Umultowska 89D, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Sławkowska str. 17, 31-016, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Gołębia 11, 31-007, Kraków, Poland
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- Archaeological Centre Olomouc, U Hradiska 42/6, 779 00, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Department of History - Section of Archaeology, Philosophical faculty, Palacký University Olomouc, Na Hradě 5, 771 80, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Archaeological Heritage Brno, v.v.i., Kaloudova 30, 614 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Morphology and Forensic Anthropology (LaMorFA), Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 267/2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic
| | - Jerzy Libera
- Institute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Maria Curie-Skłodowska Square 4, 20-031, Lublin, Poland
| | - Jolanta Bagińska
- Muzeum Regionalne im. Janusza Petera, ul. Zamojska 2, 22-600, Tomaszów Lubelski, Poland
| | - Krzysztof Tunia
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Sławkowska str. 17, 31-016, Kraków, Poland
| | - Viktor I Klochko
- National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Institute of Archaeology, Hryhoriya Skovorody St. 2, 04655, Kyiv, Ukraine
| | - Miroslawa Dabert
- Molecular Biology Techniques Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Umultowska 89, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
| | - Mattias Jakobsson
- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology and SciLifeLab, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden
- Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - Aleksander Kośko
- Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Umultowska 89D, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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