A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

Paper Info

Title
A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

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 similar to 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.

Year	DOI	Venue
2016	10.1038/nature18299	NATURE
Keywords	Field	DocType
Population genetics,Data processing,Anthropology,Population genetics,Genomics	Human migration,Population,Neanderthal,Population genetics,Genome human,Ethnology,Geography,Population structure,Biological dispersal	Journal
Volume	Issue	ISSN
538	7624	0028-0836
Citations	PageRank	References
0	0.34	0
Authors
75

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Name	Order	Citations	PageRank
Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas	1	0	1.01
Michael C. Westaway	2	0	0.34
Craig Muller	3	0	0.34
Vitor C. Sousa	4	0	0.34
Oscar Lao	5	0	0.34
Isabel Alves	6	0	0.34
Anders Bergström	7	0	0.34
Georgios Athanasiadis	8	0	0.34
Jade Yu Cheng	9	0	0.34
Jacob E. Crawford	10	0	0.34
Tim H. Heupink	11	0	0.34
Enrico Macholdt	12	0	0.34
Stephan Peischl	13	0	0.34
Simon Rasmussen	14	0	0.34
Stephan Schiffels	15	0	0.34
Sankar Subramanian	16	0	0.34
Joanne L. Wright	17	0	0.34
Anders Albrechtsen	18	24	5.17
Chiara Barbieri	19	0	0.34
Isabelle Dupanloup	20	0	0.34
Anders Eriksson	21	2	0.84
Ashot Margaryan	22	0	0.34
Ida Moltke	23	0	0.34
Irina Pugach	24	0	0.34
Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen	25	2	1.86
Ivan P. Levkivskyi	26	0	0.34
José Víctor Moreno-Mayar	27	0	0.34
Shengyu Ni	28	0	0.34
Fernando Racimo	29	0	0.34
Martin Sikora	30	2	0.73
Yali Xue	31	3	0.84
Farhang A. Aghakhanian	32	0	0.34
Nicolas Brucato	33	0	0.34
Søren Brunak	34	0	0.34
Paula F. Campos	35	0	0.34
Warren Clark	36	0	0.34
Sturla Ellingvåg	37	0	0.34
Gudjugudju Fourmile	38	0	0.34
Pascale Gerbault	39	0	0.34
Darren Injie	40	0	0.34
George Koki	41	0	0.34
Matthew Leavesley	42	0	0.34
Betty Logan	43	0	0.34
Aubrey Lynch	44	0	0.34
Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith	45	0	0.34
Peter J. McAllister	46	0	0.34
Alexander J. Mentzer	47	0	0.34
Mait Metspalu	48	0	0.34
Andrea B. Migliano	49	0	0.34
Les Murgha	50	0	0.34