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Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons

The purported migrations that have formed the peoples of Britain have been the focus of generations of scholarly controversy. However, this has not benefited from direct analyses of ancient genomes. Here we report nine ancient genomes (∼1 ×) of individuals from northern Britain: seven from a Roman e...

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Autores principales: Martiniano, Rui, Caffell, Anwen, Holst, Malin, Hunter-Mann, Kurt, Montgomery, Janet, Müldner, Gundula, McLaughlin, Russell L., Teasdale, Matthew D., van Rheenen, Wouter, Veldink, Jan H., van den Berg, Leonard H., Hardiman, Orla, Carroll, Maureen, Roskams, Steve, Oxley, John, Morgan, Colleen, Thomas, Mark G., Barnes, Ian, McDonnell, Christine, Collins, Matthew J., Bradley, Daniel G.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4735653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26783717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10326
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author Martiniano, Rui
Caffell, Anwen
Holst, Malin
Hunter-Mann, Kurt
Montgomery, Janet
Müldner, Gundula
McLaughlin, Russell L.
Teasdale, Matthew D.
van Rheenen, Wouter
Veldink, Jan H.
van den Berg, Leonard H.
Hardiman, Orla
Carroll, Maureen
Roskams, Steve
Oxley, John
Morgan, Colleen
Thomas, Mark G.
Barnes, Ian
McDonnell, Christine
Collins, Matthew J.
Bradley, Daniel G.
author_facet Martiniano, Rui
Caffell, Anwen
Holst, Malin
Hunter-Mann, Kurt
Montgomery, Janet
Müldner, Gundula
McLaughlin, Russell L.
Teasdale, Matthew D.
van Rheenen, Wouter
Veldink, Jan H.
van den Berg, Leonard H.
Hardiman, Orla
Carroll, Maureen
Roskams, Steve
Oxley, John
Morgan, Colleen
Thomas, Mark G.
Barnes, Ian
McDonnell, Christine
Collins, Matthew J.
Bradley, Daniel G.
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description The purported migrations that have formed the peoples of Britain have been the focus of generations of scholarly controversy. However, this has not benefited from direct analyses of ancient genomes. Here we report nine ancient genomes (∼1 ×) of individuals from northern Britain: seven from a Roman era York cemetery, bookended by earlier Iron-Age and later Anglo-Saxon burials. Six of the Roman genomes show affinity with modern British Celtic populations, particularly Welsh, but significantly diverge from populations from Yorkshire and other eastern English samples. They also show similarity with the earlier Iron-Age genome, suggesting population continuity, but differ from the later Anglo-Saxon genome. This pattern concords with profound impact of migrations in the Anglo-Saxon period. Strikingly, one Roman skeleton shows a clear signal of exogenous origin, with affinities pointing towards the Middle East, confirming the cosmopolitan character of the Empire, even at its northernmost fringes.
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spelling pubmed-47356532016-03-04 Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons Martiniano, Rui Caffell, Anwen Holst, Malin Hunter-Mann, Kurt Montgomery, Janet Müldner, Gundula McLaughlin, Russell L. Teasdale, Matthew D. van Rheenen, Wouter Veldink, Jan H. van den Berg, Leonard H. Hardiman, Orla Carroll, Maureen Roskams, Steve Oxley, John Morgan, Colleen Thomas, Mark G. Barnes, Ian McDonnell, Christine Collins, Matthew J. Bradley, Daniel G. Nat Commun Article The purported migrations that have formed the peoples of Britain have been the focus of generations of scholarly controversy. However, this has not benefited from direct analyses of ancient genomes. Here we report nine ancient genomes (∼1 ×) of individuals from northern Britain: seven from a Roman era York cemetery, bookended by earlier Iron-Age and later Anglo-Saxon burials. Six of the Roman genomes show affinity with modern British Celtic populations, particularly Welsh, but significantly diverge from populations from Yorkshire and other eastern English samples. They also show similarity with the earlier Iron-Age genome, suggesting population continuity, but differ from the later Anglo-Saxon genome. This pattern concords with profound impact of migrations in the Anglo-Saxon period. Strikingly, one Roman skeleton shows a clear signal of exogenous origin, with affinities pointing towards the Middle East, confirming the cosmopolitan character of the Empire, even at its northernmost fringes. Nature Publishing Group 2016-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4735653/ /pubmed/26783717 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10326 Text en Copyright © 2016, Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Martiniano, Rui
Caffell, Anwen
Holst, Malin
Hunter-Mann, Kurt
Montgomery, Janet
Müldner, Gundula
McLaughlin, Russell L.
Teasdale, Matthew D.
van Rheenen, Wouter
Veldink, Jan H.
van den Berg, Leonard H.
Hardiman, Orla
Carroll, Maureen
Roskams, Steve
Oxley, John
Morgan, Colleen
Thomas, Mark G.
Barnes, Ian
McDonnell, Christine
Collins, Matthew J.
Bradley, Daniel G.
Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons
title Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons
title_full Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons
title_fullStr Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons
title_full_unstemmed Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons
title_short Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons
title_sort genomic signals of migration and continuity in britain before the anglo-saxons
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4735653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26783717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10326
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