Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication

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Yurtman, Erinç
Özer, Onur
Yüncü, Eren
Dağtaş, Nihan Dilşad
Koptekin, Dilek
Çakan, Yasin Gökhan
Özkan, Mustafa
Akbaba, Ali
Kaptan, Damla
Atağ, Gözde
Vural, Kıvılcım Başak
Gündem, Can Yümni
Martin, Louise
Kılınç, Gülşah Merve
Ghalichi, Ayshin
Açan, Sinan Can
Yaka, Reyhan
Sağlıcan, Ekin
Lagerholm, Vendela Kempe
Krzewińska, Maja
Günther, Torsten
Miranda, Pedro Morell
Pişkin, Evangelia
Şevketoğlu, Müge
Bilgin, C. Can
Atakuman, Çiğdem
Erdal, Yılmaz Selim
Sürer, Elif
Altınışık, N. Ezgi
Lenstra, Johannes A.
Yorulmaz, Sevgi
Abazari, Mohammad Foad
Hoseinzadeh, Javad
Baird, Douglas
Bıçakçı, Erhan
Çevik, Özlem
Gerritsen, Fokke
Özbal, Rana
Götherström, Anders
Somel, Mehmet
Togan, Inci
Özer, Füsun

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Sheep were among the first domesticated animals, but their demographic history is little understood. Here we analyzed nuclear polymorphism and mitochondrial data (mtDNA) from ancient central and west Anatolian sheep dating from Epipaleolithic to late Neolithic, comparatively with modern-day breeds and central Asian Neolithic/Bronze Age sheep (OBI). Analyzing ancient nuclear data, we found that Anatolian Neolithic sheep (ANS) are genetically closest to present-day European breeds relative to Asian breeds, a conclusion supported by mtDNA haplogroup frequencies. In contrast, OBI showed higher genetic affinity to present-day Asian breeds. These results suggest that the east-west genetic structure observed in present-day breeds had already emerged by 6000 BCE, hinting at multiple sheep domestication episodes or early wild introgression in southwest Asia. Furthermore, we found that ANS are genetically distinct from all modern breeds. Our results suggest that European and Anatolian domestic sheep gene pools have been strongly remolded since the Neolithic.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/94415

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COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY

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E. Yurtman et al., “Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication,” COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY, no. 4, pp. 1–11, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02794-8.