137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F18%3A10375743" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/18:10375743 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0094-2" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0094-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0094-2" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-018-0094-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

Original language description

For thousands of years the Eurasian steppes have been a centre of human migrations and cultural change. Here we sequence the genomes of 137 ancient humans (about 1x average coverage), covering a period of 4,000 years, to understand the population history of the Eurasian steppes after the Bronze Age migrations. We find that the genetics of the Scythian groups that dominated the Eurasian steppes throughout the Iron Age were highly structured, with diverse origins comprising Late Bronze Age herders, European farmers and southern Siberian hunter-gatherers. Later, Scythians admixed with the eastern steppe nomads who formed the Xiongnu confederations, and moved westward in about the second or third century bc, forming the Hun traditions in the fourthfifth century ad, and carrying with them plague that was basal to the Justinian plague. These nomads were further admixed with East Asian groups during several short-term khanates in the Medieval period. These historical events transformed the Eurasian steppes from being inhabited by Indo-European speakers of largely West Eurasian ancestry to the mostly Turkic-speaking groups of the present day, who are primarily of East Asian ancestry.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nature

ISSN

0028-0836

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

557

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7705

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

369-374

UT code for WoS article

000432242000049

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85047137672