An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1211177
• Publication Date: 2011-09-23T01:42:23Z
• Authors: Morten Rasmussen; Xiaosen Guo; Yong Wang; Kirk E. Lohmueller; Simon Rasmussen; Anders Albrechtsen; Line Skotte; Stinus Lindgreen; Mait Metspalu; Thibaut Jombart; Toomas Kivisild; Weiwei Zhai; Anders Eriksson; Andrea Manica; Ludovic Orlando; Francisco M. De L...; Silvana Tridico; Ene Metspalu; Kasper Nielsen; María C. Ávila-Arcos; J. Víctor Moreno-...; Craig Muller; Joe Dortch; M. Thomas P. Gilbert; Ole Lund; Agata Wesolowska; Monika Karmin; Lucy A. Weinert; Bo Wang; Jun Li; Shuaishuai Tai; Fei Xiao; Tsunehiko Hanihara; George van Driem; Aashish R. Jha; François-Xavier R...; Peter de Knijff; Andrea B Migliano; Irene Gallego Romero; Karsten Kristiansen; David M. Lambert; Søren Brunak; Peter Forster; Bernd Brinkmann; Olaf Nehlich; Michael Bunce; Michael Richards; Ramneek Gupta; Carlos D. Bustamante; Anders Krogh; Robert A. Foley; Marta M. Lahr; Francois Balloux; Thomas Sicheritz-...; Richard Villems; Rasmus Nielsen; Jun Wang; Eske Willerslev
• Keywords: Male; 0301 basic medicine; MESH: Sequence Analysis, DNA; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; Far East; MESH: Emigration and Immigration; [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology; Linkage Disequilibrium; Gene Frequency; MESH: Hominidae; Ethnicity; MESH: Animals; MESH: Phylogeny; Phylogeny; African Continental Ancestry Group; Genome; MESH: Asian Continental Ancestry Group; MESH: Asia; Asia, Eastern; MESH: Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Hominidae; Single Nucleotide; MESH: European Continental Ancestry Group; Emigration and Immigration; Mitochondrial; [SHS.ANTHRO-BIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Biological anthropology; Oceanic Ancestry Group; MESH: Linkage Disequilibrium; MESH: Ethnic Groups; MESH: Genome, Mitochondrial; MESH: Oceanic Ancestry Group; Sequence Analysis; Human; Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Gene Flow; Asia; 330; European Continental Ancestry Group; Population; MESH: Genetics, Population; Black People; Ethnic Groups; DNA, Mitochondrial; 03 medical and health sciences; MESH: Computer Simulation; Asian People; Genetics; MESH: Gene Frequency; MESH: Western Australia; Animals; Humans; Computer Simulation; Polymorphism; MESH: Gene Flow; MESH: Genome, Human; MESH: Humans; [SDV.GEN.GPO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE]; Genome, Human; MESH: DNA, Mitochondrial; DNA; Western Australia; MESH: Haplotypes; MESH: Far East; 300; MESH: Male; Genetics, Population; Haplotypes; Genome, Mitochondrial; [SDV.GEN.GPO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE]; MESH: African Continental Ancestry Group

Whole-genome data indicate that early modern humans expanded into Australia 62,000 to 75,000 years ago.