Journal article
A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia
Nature, Vol.538(7624), pp.207-214
2016
Abstract
The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama-Nyungan languages) and 25 Papuans from the New Guinea Highlands. We find that Papuan and Aboriginal Australian ancestors diversified 25-40 thousand years ago (kya), suggesting pre-Holocene population structure in the ancient continent of Sahul (Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania). However, all of the studied Aboriginal Australians descend from a single founding population that differentiated ∼10-32 kya. We infer a population expansion in northeast Australia during the Holocene epoch (past 10,000 years) associated with limited gene flow from this region to the rest of Australia, consistent with the spread of the Pama-Nyungan languages. We estimate that Aboriginal Australians and Papuans diverged from Eurasians 51-72 kya, following a single out-of-Africa dispersal, and subsequently admixed with archaic populations. Finally, we report evidence of selection in Aboriginal Australians potentially associated with living in the desert. © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved
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- A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia
- Authors
- A S Malaspinas (Author)M C Westaway (Author)C Muller (Author)V C Sousa (Author)O Lao (Author)I Alves (Author)A Bergström (Author)G Athanasiadis (Author)J Y Cheng (Author)J E Crawford (Author)T H Heupink (Author)E MacHoldt (Author)S Peischl (Author)S Rasmussen (Author)S Schiffels (Author)Sankar Subramanian (Author) - Griffith UniversityJ L Wright (Author)A Albrechtsen (Author)Chiara Barbier (Author)Isabelle Dupanloup (Author)Anders Eriksson (Author)Ashot Margaryan (Author)Ida Moltke (Author)Irina Pugach (Author)Thorfinn S Korneliussen (Author)Ivan P Levkivskyi (Author)J Victor Moreno-Mayar (Author)Shengyu Ni (Author)Fernando Racimo (Author)Martin Sikora (Author)Yali Xue (Author)Farhang A Aghakhanian (Author)Nicolas Brucato (Author)Soren Brunak (Author)Paula F Campos (Author)Warren Clark (Author)Sturla Ellingvag (Author)Gudjugudju Fourmile (Author)Pascale Gerbault (Author)Darren Injie (Author)George Koki (Author)Matthew Leavesley (Author)Betty Logan (Author)Aubrey Lynch (Author)Elizabeth A Matisoo-Smith (Author)Peter J McAllister (Author)Alexander J Mentzer (Author)Mait Metspalu (Author)Andrea B Migliano (Author)Les Murgha (Author)Maude E Phipps (Author)William Pomat (Author)Doc Reynolds (Author)Francois-Xavier Ricaut (Author)Peter Siba (Author)Joe Dortch (Author)Andrea Manica (Author)Mikkel H Schierup (Author)Robert A Foley (Author)Marta Mirazon Lahr (Author)Claire Bowern (Author)Jeffrey D Wall (Author)Thomas Mailund (Author)Mark Stoneking (Author)Rasmus Nielsen (Author)Manjinder S Sandhu (Author)Laurent Excoffier (Author)David M Lambert (Author)Eske Willerslev (Author)
- Publication details
- Nature, Vol.538(7624), pp.207-214
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Date published
- 2016
- DOI
- 10.1038/nature18299
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2016 Nature Publishing Group. The accepted version is reproduced here in accordance with the publishers copyright policy. The definitive version is available from http://www.nature.com/nature/
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science and Engineering - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Centre for Bioinnovation
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450911302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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