The genetic history of Europeans

Ron Pinhasi; Mark G Thomas; Michael Hofreiter; Mathias Currat; Joachim Burger

doi:10.1016/j.tig.2012.06.006

The genetic history of Europeans

Ron Pinhasi, Mark G Thomas, Michael Hofreiter, Mathias Currat, Joachim Burger

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The evolutionary history of modern humans is characterized by numerous migrations driven by environmental change, population pressures, and cultural innovations. In Europe, the events most widely considered to have had a major impact on patterns of genetic diversity are the initial colonization of the continent by anatomically modern humans (AMH), the last glacial maximum, and the Neolithic transition. For some decades it was assumed that the geographical structuring of genetic diversity within Europe was mainly the result of gene flow during and soon after the Neolithic transition, but recent advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, computer simulation modeling, and ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses are challenging this simplistic view. Here we review the current knowledge on the evolutionary history of humans in Europe based on archaeological and genetic data.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	496-505
Number of pages	10
Journal	Trends in Genetics
Volume	28
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2012.06.006
Publication status	Published - Oct 2012

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