Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Rasmussen, Morten, Li, Yingrui, Lindgreen, Stinus, Pedersen, Jakob Skou, Albrechtsen, Anders, Moltke, Ida, Metspalu, Mait, Metspalu, Ene, Kivisild, Toomas, Gupta, Ramneek, Bertalan, Marcelo, Nielsen, Kasper, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Wang, Yong, Raghavan, Maanasa, Campos, Paula F., Kamp, Hanne Munkholm, Wilson, Andrew S., Gledhill, Andrew, Tridico, Silvana, Bunce, Michael, Lorenzen, Eline D., Binladen, Jonas, Guo, Xiaosen, Zhao, Jing, Zhang, Xiuqing, Zhang, Hao, Li, Zhuo, Chen, Minfeng, Orlando, Ludovic, Kristiansen, Karsten, Bak, Mads, Tommerup, Niels, Bendixen, Christian, Pierre, Tracey L., Gronnow, Bjarne, Meldgaard, Morten, Andreasen, Claus, Fedorova, Sardana A., Osipova, Ludmila P., Higham, Thomas F G., Ramsey, Christopher Bronk, Hansen, Thomas v. O., Nielsen, Finn C., Crawford, Michael H., Brunak, Soren, Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas, Villems, Richard, Nielsen, Rasmus, Krogh, Anders
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Macmilan Publishers 2014
• Subjects: Greenland; Rasmussen; eskimo*; inuit; permafrost; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13628; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08835

We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from ∼4,000-year-old permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known culture to settle in Greenland. Sequenced to an average depth of 20×, we recover 79% of the diploid genome, an amount close to...