Diana I. Cruz Dávalos

TL;DR: A strong affinity between modern and ancient individuals from the region is found, providing evidence of continuity in the region for the last ∼1,000 years and regional genetic structure within Southern South America.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors sequenced six Early to Middle BA whole genomes, along with 11 mitochondrial genomes, sampled from the three Bronze Age (BA) cultures of the Aegean Sea and found that the early BA genomes are homogeneous and derive most of their ancestry from Neolithic Aegeans, contrary to earlier hypotheses that the Neolithic-EBA cultural transition was due to massive population turnover.

TL;DR: The first in-solution capture-enrichment method targeting the human Y-chromosome in aDNA sequencing libraries is presented, leading to an increase in the amount of Y-DNA sequences, as compared to libraries not enriched for the Y- chromosome.

TL;DR: It is found that ancient and modern DNA imputation accuracies were comparable and, for most populations and depths of coverage as low as 0.5x, imputation is a reliable method with potential to expand and improve ancient DNA studies.

TL;DR: This work presents to the knowledge the first in-solution capture-enrichment method targeting the human Y-chromosome in aDNA sequencing libraries, and recommends considering the endogenous content in the experimental design and avoiding consecutive rounds of capture for low-complexity libraries, as clonality increases considerably with each round.