TY - JOUR
T1 - Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil
AU - Malaspinas, Anna Sapfo
AU - Lao, Oscar
AU - Schroeder, Hannes
AU - Rasmussen, Morten
AU - Raghavan, Maanasa
AU - Moltke, Ida
AU - Campos, Paula F.
AU - Sagredo, Francisca Santana
AU - Rasmussen, Simon
AU - Gonçalves, Vanessa F.
AU - Albrechtsen, Anders
AU - Allentoft, Morten E.
AU - Johnson, Philip L.F.
AU - Li, Mingkun
AU - Reis, Silvia
AU - Bernardo, Danilo V.
AU - Degiorgio, Michael
AU - Duggan, Ana T.
AU - Bastos, Murilo
AU - Wang, Yong
AU - Stenderup, Jesper
AU - Moreno-Mayar, J. Victor
AU - Brunak, Søren
AU - Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas
AU - Hodges, Emily
AU - Hannon, Gregory J.
AU - Orlando, Ludovic
AU - Price, T. Douglas
AU - Jensen, Jeffrey D.
AU - Nielsen, Rasmus
AU - Heinemeier, Jan
AU - Olsen, Jesper
AU - Rodrigues-Carvalho, Claudia
AU - Lahr, Marta Mirazón
AU - Neves, Walter A.
AU - Kayser, Manfred
AU - Higham, Thomas
AU - Stoneking, Mark
AU - Pena, Sergio D.J.
AU - Willerslev, Eske
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the laboratory technicians at the Danish National High-throughput DNA Sequencing Centre for technical assistance; Martin Kircher, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Johannes Krause, David Reich, Erik Thorsby for helpful discussion; Toomas Kivisild, Jinchuan Xing, Andreas Wollstein, David Reich for early access and/or assistance with their data. GeoGenetics members were supported by the Lundbeck Foundation, the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF94) and the European Union (FP7/2007-2013/317184 and 319209). A.S.M. was supported by a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (PBSKP3_143529); M.D. by the US National Science Foundation (grant DBI-1103639); P.L.J. by the National Institutes of Health (grant K99 GM104158); V.F.G. by a Strategic Training for Advanced Genetic Epidemiology (STAGE) fellowship, University of Toronto.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2014/11/3
Y1 - 2014/11/3
N2 - Summary Understanding the peopling of the Americas remains an important and challenging question. Here, we present 14C dates, and morphological, isotopic and genomic sequence data from two human skulls from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, part of one of the indigenous groups known as 'Botocudos'. We find that their genomic ancestry is Polynesian, with no detectable Native American component. Radiocarbon analysis of the skulls shows that the individuals had died prior to the beginning of the 19th century. Our findings could either represent genomic evidence of Polynesians reaching South America during their Pacific expansion, or European-mediated transport.
AB - Summary Understanding the peopling of the Americas remains an important and challenging question. Here, we present 14C dates, and morphological, isotopic and genomic sequence data from two human skulls from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, part of one of the indigenous groups known as 'Botocudos'. We find that their genomic ancestry is Polynesian, with no detectable Native American component. Radiocarbon analysis of the skulls shows that the individuals had died prior to the beginning of the 19th century. Our findings could either represent genomic evidence of Polynesians reaching South America during their Pacific expansion, or European-mediated transport.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.078
DO - 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.078
M3 - Letter
C2 - 25455029
AN - SCOPUS:84913589258
SN - 0960-9822
VL - 24
SP - R1035-R1037
JO - Current Biology
JF - Current Biology
IS - 21
ER -