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TL;DR: This study demonstrates a direct genetic link between Mediterranean and Central European early farmers and those of Greece and Anatolia, extending the European Neolithic migratory chain all the way back to southwestern Asia.

TL;DR: It is concluded that multiple, genetically differentiated hunter-gatherer populations adopted farming in southwestern Asia, that components of pre-Neolithic population structure were preserved as farming spread into neighboring regions, and that the Zagros region was the cradle of eastward expansion.

TL;DR: The first population-level analysis of people from this era of Migration Period is conducted, generating genomic data from 41 graves from archaeological sites in present-day Bavaria in southern Germany, indicating that while men generally had ancestry that closely resembles modern northern and central Europeans, women exhibit a very high genetic heterogeneity.

TL;DR: The spatiotemporal spread of LP is investigated through an analysis of 14 warriors from the Tollense Bronze Age battlefield in northern Germany and selection was ongoing in various parts of Europe over the last 3,000 years, suggesting that the surge of rs4988235 in Central and Northern Europe was unlikely caused by Steppe expansions.

TL;DR: A method to accurately infer heterozygosity probabilistically from sequences with average coverage <1× of a single individual is introduced, and it is found that 3000–5000-year-old samples showed diversity patterns comparable to those of modern humans.