Genome-wide data from two early Neolithic East Asian individuals dating to 7700 years ago.

• Main Authors: Siska, Veronika, Jones, Eppie Ruth, Jeon, Sungwon, Bhak, Youngjune, Kim, Hak-Min, Cho, Yun Sung, Kim, Hyunho, Lee, Kyusang, Veselovskaya, Elizaveta, Balueva, Tatiana, Gallego-Llorente, Marcos, Hofreiter, Michael, Bradley, Daniel G, Eriksson, Anders, Pinhasi, Ron, Bhak, Jong, Manica, Andrea
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2017
• Subjects: East Asia; Russian Far East; ancient genetics; human population genetics; neolithic; Archaeology; DNA; Mitochondrial; Asia; Eastern; Genome; Human; Genotype; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors; Humans; Phenotype; Polymorphism; Single Nucleotide; Principal Component Analysis; Receptors; Ectodysplasin; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; Devil's Gate; Tungusic languages
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/263070; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.8372

Ancient genomes have revolutionized our understanding of Holocene prehistory and, particularly, the Neolithic transition in western Eurasia. In contrast, East Asia has so far received little attention, despite representing a core region at which the Neolithic transition took place independently ~3 m...