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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schiffels, Stephan
• Haak, Wolfgang
• Paajanen, Pirita
• Llamas, Bastien
• Popescu, Elizabeth
• Loe, Louise
• Clarke, Rachel
• Lyons, Alice
• Mortimer, Richard
• Sayer, Duncan
• Tyler-Smith, Chris
• Cooper, Alan
• Durbin, Richard

Titel

Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from East England reveal British migration history

Ist Teil von

• Nature communications, 2016-01, Vol.7 (1), p.10408-10408, Article 10408

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Frei zugängliche E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• British population history has been shaped by a series of immigrations, including the early Anglo-Saxon migrations after 400 CE. It remains an open question how these events affected the genetic composition of the current British population. Here, we present whole-genome sequences from 10 individuals excavated close to Cambridge in the East of England, ranging from the late Iron Age to the middle Anglo-Saxon period. By analysing shared rare variants with hundreds of modern samples from Britain and Europe, we estimate that on average the contemporary East English population derives 38% of its ancestry from Anglo-Saxon migrations. We gain further insight with a new method, rarecoal, which infers population history and identifies fine-scale genetic ancestry from rare variants. Using rarecoal we find that the Anglo-Saxon samples are closely related to modern Dutch and Danish populations, while the Iron Age samples share ancestors with multiple Northern European populations including Britain.