Can anyone give me some information on these ancient populations?

[Gründig]

Can anyone give me any information on these ancient populations?

AAB_Nordic_LN

AAB_Unetice_RISE150

AAB_Motala_HG

AAB_Karasuk

AAB_Ireland_EBA

AAB_Portugal_MBA

AAB_Ireland_MN

AAB_Sweden_MN

[de Burgh II]

AAB_Nordic_LN = Nordic late neolithic

AAB_Unetice = Unetice culture

AAB_Motala_HG = Motala/ western hunter gatherer (WHG)

AAB_Karasuk = Karasuk culture

AAB_Ireland_EBA = Ireland early bronze age

AAB_Portugal_MBA = Portugal middle bronze age

AAB_Ireland_MN = Ireland middle neolithic

AAB_Sweden_MN = Sweden middle neolithic

[Gründig]

AAB_Nordic_LN = Nordic late neolithic

AAB_Unetice = Unetice culture

AAB_Motala_HG = Motala/ western hunter gatherer (WHG)

AAB_Karasuk = Karasuk culture

AAB_Ireland_EBA = Ireland early bronze age

AAB_Portugal_MBA = Portugal middle bronze age

AAB_Ireland_MN = Ireland middle neolithic

AAB_Sweden_MN = Sweden middle neolithic

Motala as in Sweden?

[Gründig]

Anyone know any more specific details? As in, who these populations may resemble today, etc?

[Gründig]

Bump

[J. Ketch]

Anyone know any more specific details? As in, who these populations may resemble today, etc?
Run them against modern populations and find out.

[Kelmendasi]

Motala as in Sweden?
Yh the Motala samples are from Sweden. They were SHG(Scandinavian Hunter Gatherers), they weren’t WHG as they had significant amounts of EHG as well as WHG.

[sailormoon]

https://i.postimg.cc/Mp0RyBpM/nihms613260f1b.jpg

The Motala samples are ancient human bones found at the site of Kanaljorden in the town of Motala, Östergötland, Sweden, dated to 6361–5516 BC, which corresponds to a late phase of the Middle Mesolithic of Scandinavia. All Motala individuals have the U5 or U2 haplogroups, typical of West European Hunter-Gatherers (WHG), and Motala12 fits as a mixture of 81% WHG and 19% ANE. Five male Motala individuals belong to Y-chromosome haplogroup I, which is common in modern-day Scandinavia. Motala12 likely had blue or light-colored eyes and was light-skinned, carrying a copy of the skin pigmentation gene SLC24A5 (Lazaridis et al. 2014).



Sequence reads from all samples revealed >20% C→T and G→A deamination-derived mismatches at the ends of the molecules that are characteristic of ancient DNA9,10 (SI3). We estimate nuclear contamination rates to be 0.3% for Stuttgart and 0.4% for Loschbour (SI3), and mitochondrial (mtDNA) contamination rates to be 0.3% for Stuttgart, 0.4% for Loschbour, and 0.01–5% for the Motala individuals (SI3). Stuttgart has mtDNA haplogroup T2, typical of Neolithic Europeans11, and Loschbour and all Motala individuals have the U5 or U2 haplogroups, typical of hunter-gatherers5,9 (SI4). Stuttgart is female, while Loschbour and five Motala individuals are male (SI5) and belong to Y-chromosome haplogroup I, suggesting that this was common in pre-agricultural Europeans (SI5).

We carried out large-scale sequencing of libraries prepared with uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG), which removes deaminated cytosines, thus reducing errors arising from ancient DNA damage (SI3). The ancient individuals had indistinguishable levels of Neanderthal ancestry when compared to each other (~2%) and to present-day Eurasians (SI6). The heterozygosity of Stuttgart (0.00074) is at the high end of present-day Europeans, while that of Loschbour (0.00048) is lower than in any present humans (SI2), reflecting a strong bottleneck in Loschbour’s ancestors as the genetic data show that he was not recently inbred (Extended Data Fig. 2). High copy numbers for the salivary amylase gene (AMY1) have been associated with a high starch diet12; our data are consistent with this finding in that the ancient hunter gatherers La Braña (from Iberia)2, Motala12, and Loschbour had 5, 6 and 13 copies respectively, whereas the Stuttgart farmer had 16 (SI7). Both Loschbour and Stuttgart had dark hair (>99% probability); and Loschbour, like La Braña and Motala12, likely had blue or intermediate-colored eyes (>75%) while Stuttgart likely had brown eyes (>99%) (SI8). Neither Loschbour nor La Braña carries the skin-lightening allele in SLC24A5 that is homozygous in Stuttgart and nearly fixed in Europeans today2, but Motala12 carries at least one copy of the derived allele, showing that this allele was present in Europe prior to the advent of agriculture.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4170574/