Nature Communications (Aug 2019)
Ancient DNA from the skeletons of Roopkund Lake reveals Mediterranean migrants in India
- Éadaoin Harney,
- Ayushi Nayak,
- Nick Patterson,
- Pramod Joglekar,
- Veena Mushrif-Tripathy,
- Swapan Mallick,
- Nadin Rohland,
- Jakob Sedig,
- Nicole Adamski,
- Rebecca Bernardos,
- Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht,
- Brendan J. Culleton,
- Matthew Ferry,
- Thomas K. Harper,
- Megan Michel,
- Jonas Oppenheimer,
- Kristin Stewardson,
- Zhao Zhang,
- Harashawaradhana,
- Maanwendra Singh Bartwal,
- Sachin Kumar,
- Subhash Chandra Diyundi,
- Patrick Roberts,
- Nicole Boivin,
- Douglas J. Kennett,
- Kumarasamy Thangaraj,
- David Reich,
- Niraj Rai
Affiliations
- Éadaoin Harney
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
- Ayushi Nayak
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Nick Patterson
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
- Pramod Joglekar
- Deccan College
- Veena Mushrif-Tripathy
- Deccan College
- Swapan Mallick
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Nadin Rohland
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Jakob Sedig
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Nicole Adamski
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Rebecca Bernardos
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Brendan J. Culleton
- Institutes of Energy and the Environment, The Pennsylvania State University
- Matthew Ferry
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Thomas K. Harper
- Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University
- Megan Michel
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Jonas Oppenheimer
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Kristin Stewardson
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Zhao Zhang
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Harashawaradhana
- Anthropological Survey of India, North West Regional Centre
- Maanwendra Singh Bartwal
- Anthropological Survey of India, North West Regional Centre
- Sachin Kumar
- CSIR Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Subhash Chandra Diyundi
- Gautam Budh Health Care Foundation
- Patrick Roberts
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Nicole Boivin
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Douglas J. Kennett
- Department of Anthropology, University of California
- Kumarasamy Thangaraj
- CSIR Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
- David Reich
- The Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean
- Niraj Rai
- CSIR Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11357-9
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Remains of several hundred humans are scattered around Roopkund Lake, situated over 5,000 meters above sea level in the Himalayan Mountains. Here the authors analyze genome-wide data from 38 skeletons and find 3 clusters with different ancestries and dates, showing the people were desposited in multiple catastrophic events.
