Susanne Friederich

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: The processes that shaped modern European mtDNA variation remain unclear as mentioned in this paper, and the initial peopling by Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers and the immigration of Neolithic farmers into Europe ~8000 years ago appear to have played important roles but do not explain present-day mtDNA diversity.

TL;DR: This transect through time reveals four key population events associated with well-known archaeological cultures, which involved genetic influx into Central Europe from various directions at various times, revealing a key role for Late Neolithic cultures in shaping modern Central European genetic diversity.

TL;DR: The results reveal that the current diversity and distribution of haplogroup H were largely established by the Mid Neolithic, but with substantial genetic contributions from subsequent pan-European cultures such as the Bell Beakers expanding out of Iberia in the Late Neolithic (~2800 BC).

TL;DR: Three ancient HBV genomes recovered from human skeletons found at three different archaeological sites in Germany are reconstructed by de novo assembly from shotgun DNA sequencing data, demonstrating that HBV has circulated in the European population for at least 7000 years.