Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12136/2968
Title: Sediment DNA reveals Neandertal population history
Authors: Vernot, Benjamin
Zavala, Elena I.
Gómez-Olivencia, Asier
Jacobs, Zenobia
Slon, Viviane
Mafessoni, Fabrizio
Romagné, Frédéric
Pearson, Alice
Petr, Martin
Sala, Nohemi
Pablos Fernández, Adrián
Aranburu, Arantza
Bermúdez de Castro, José María
Carbonell, Eudald
Li, Bo
Krajcarz, Maciej T.
Krivoshapkin, Andrey I.
Kolobova, Kseniya A.
Kozlikin, Maxim B.
Shunkov, Michael V.
Derevianko, Anatoly P.
Viola, Bence
Grote, Steffi
Essel, Elena
López Herráez, David
Nagel, Sarah
Nickel, Birgit
Richter, Julia
Schmidt, Anna
Peter, Benjamin M.
Kelso, Janet
Roberts, Richard G.
Arsuaga, Juan Luis
Meyer, Matthias
Issue Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature
Citation: European Journal of Human Genetics, 2022, 30 (Suppl 1), p. 85
Abstract: The study of hominin history has progressed through both archaeological and genetic insights. However, many archaeological sites lack associated hominin fossils, frustrating genetic analyses. Even when fossils are found, they often do not cover the full time-span of a site, or sampling them for DNA may not be possible. Here we present targeted enrichment and sequencing of hominin nuclear DNA from sediments, and insights into human history derived from this DNA. We developed methods to capture hominin DNA even in the presence of homologous faunal DNA, and evaluate the extent of microbial and faunal DNA in our data. We applied these methods to sediment samples from Galería de las Estatuas, a site in northern Spain, and Denisova and Chagyrskaya caves, in the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia, and identified and sequenced Neandertal nuclear DNA in stratigraphic layers spanning 55k - 200 thousand years ago. We then placed each sample on the Neandertal phylogenetic tree, inferring the most likely divergence date from a lineage. In Estatuas we demonstrate a population transition, and associate this change with specific layers. In Chagyrskaya, all layers are associated with a single Neandertal lineage, suggesting a more homogenous occupation. This work demonstrates that detailed genetic analyses may be possible from many more archaeological sites than was previously thought, and is particularly encouraging for time-series studies of single sites, or for sites with a sparse fossil record.
Description: Ponencia presentada en: 54th European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) Conference, 28-31 de agosto de 2021, Virtual Conference
URI: https://cir.cenieh.es/handle/20.500.12136/2968
ISSN: 1476-5438
1018-4813
DOI: 10.1038/s41431-021-01025-2
Editor version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-021-01025-2
Type: Presentation
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