Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean.

2022-12-06
Koptekin, Dilek
Yüncü, Eren
Rodríguez-Varela, Ricardo
Altınışık, N Ezgi
Psonis, Nikolaos
Kashuba, Natalia
Yorulmaz, Sevgi
George, Robert
Kazancı, Duygu Deniz
Kaptan, Damla
Gürün, Kanat
Vural, Kıvılcım Başak
Gemici, Hasan Can
Vassou, Despoina
Daskalaki, Evangelia
Karamurat, Cansu
Lagerholm, Vendela K
Erdal, Ömür Dilek
Kırdök, Emrah
Marangoni, Aurelio
Schachner, Andreas
Üstündağ, Handan
Shengelia, Ramaz
Bitadze, Liana
Elashvili, Mikheil
Stravopodi, Eleni
Özbaşaran, Mihriban
Duru, Güneş
Nafplioti, Argyro
Rose, C Brian
Gencer, Tuğba
Darbyshire, Gareth
Gavashelishvili, Alexander
Pitskhelauri, Konstantine
Çevik, Özlem
Vuruşkan, Osman
Kyparissi-Apostolika, Nina
Büyükkarakaya, Ali Metin
Oğuzhanoğlu, Umay
Günel, Sevinç
Tabakaki, Eugenia
Aliev, Akper
Ibrahimov, Anar
Shadlinski, Vaqif
Sampson, Adamantios
Kılınç, Gülşah Merve
Atakuman, Çiğdem
Stamatakis, Alexandros
Poulakakis, Nikos
Erdal, Yılmaz Selim
Pavlidis, Pavlos
Storå, Jan
Özer, Füsun
Götherström, Anders
Somel, Mehmet
We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant, South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic transition and the emergence of com- plex hierarchical societies. Combining 35 new ancient shotgun genomes with 382 ancient and 23 present-day published genomes, we found that genetic diversity within each region steadily increased through the Holo- cene. We further observed that the inferred sources of gene flow shifted in time. In the first half of the Holo- cene, Southwest Asian and the East Mediterranean populations homogenized among themselves. Starting with the Bronze Age, however, regional populations diverged from each other, most likely driven by gene flow from external sources, which we term ‘‘the expanding mobility model.’’ Interestingly, this increase in in- ter-regional divergence can be captured by outgroup-f3-based genetic distances, but not by the commonly used FST statistic, due to the sensitivity of FST, but not outgroup-f3, to within-population diversity. Finally, we report a temporal trend of increasing male bias in admixture events through the Holocene.
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Citation Formats
D. Koptekin et al., “Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean.,” Current biology : CB, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/101664.