Alan Cooper

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000-3,000 years ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms.

TL;DR: At the recent 5th International Ancient DNA Conference in Manchester, U.K., one presentation boldly opened with the claim that the field was now mature and could move ahead with a clear path towards deciphering diet and disease from DNA.

TL;DR: A genome-wide scan for selection using ancient DNA is reported, capitalizing on the largest ancient DNA data set yet assembled: 230 West Eurasians who lived between 6500 and 300 bc, including 163 with newly reported data.

TL;DR: It is shown that most present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: west European hunter-gatherers, who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; ancient north Eurasians related to Upper Palaeolithic Siberians; and early European farmers, who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harboured west Europeanhunter-gatherer related ancestry.

TL;DR: Using Bayesian analysis with a relaxed-clock model, the authors estimated rates for three groups of mitochondrial data: avian protein coding genes, primate protein-coding genes, and primate d-loop sequences.