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Hui R, Scheib CL, D’Atanasio E, Inskip SA, Cessford C, Biagini SA, Wohns AW, Ali MQ, Griffith SJ, Solnik A, Niinemäe H, Ge XJ, Rose AK, Beneker O, O’Connell TC, Robb JE, Kivisild T. Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadi5903. [PMID: 38232165 PMCID: PMC10793959 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi5903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
Abstract
The extent of the devastation of the Black Death pandemic (1346-1353) on European populations is known from documentary sources and its bacterial source illuminated by studies of ancient pathogen DNA. What has remained less understood is the effect of the pandemic on human mobility and genetic diversity at the local scale. Here, we report 275 ancient genomes, including 109 with coverage >0.1×, from later medieval and postmedieval Cambridgeshire of individuals buried before and after the Black Death. Consistent with the function of the institutions, we found a lack of close relatives among the friars and the inmates of the hospital in contrast to their abundance in general urban and rural parish communities. While we detect long-term shifts in local genetic ancestry in Cambridgeshire, we find no evidence of major changes in genetic ancestry nor higher differentiation of immune loci between cohorts living before and after the Black Death.
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- Ruoyun Hui
- Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- St John’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Archaeological Unit, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Genetics and Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Core Facility, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Wellcome Genome Campus, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, Durham, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Eaton K, Sidhu RK, Klunk J, Gamble JA, Boldsen JL, Carmichael AG, Varlık N, Duchene S, Featherstone L, Grimes V, Golding GB, DeWitte SN, Holmes EC, Poinar HN. Emergence, continuity, and evolution of Yersinia pestis throughout medieval and early modern Denmark. Curr Biol 2023; 33:1147-1152.e5. [PMID: 36841239 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 02/27/2023]
Abstract
The historical epidemiology of plague is controversial due to the scarcity and ambiguity of available data.1,2 A common source of debate is the extent and pattern of plague re-emergence and local continuity in Europe during the 14th-18th century CE.3 Despite having a uniquely long history of plague (∼5,000 years), Scandinavia is relatively underrepresented in the historical archives.4,5 To better understand the historical epidemiology and evolutionary history of plague in this region, we performed in-depth (n = 298) longitudinal screening (800 years) for the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis) across 13 archaeological sites in Denmark from 1000 to 1800 CE. Our genomic and phylogenetic data captured the emergence, continuity, and evolution of Y. pestis in this region over a period of 300 years (14th-17th century CE), for which the plague-positivity rate was 8.3% (3.3%-14.3% by site). Our phylogenetic analysis revealed that the Danish Y. pestis sequences were interspersed with those from other European countries, rather than forming a single cluster, indicative of the generation, spread, and replacement of bacterial variants through communities rather than their long-term local persistence. These results provide an epidemiological link between Y. pestis and the unknown pestilence that afflicted medieval and early modern Europe. They also demonstrate how population-scale genomic evidence can be used to test hypotheses on disease mortality and epidemiology and help pave the way for the next generation of historical disease research.
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- Katherine Eaton
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9, Canada; Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9, Canada; Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4E8, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9, Canada; Daicel Arbor Biosciences, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Unit of Anthropology (ADBOU), University of Southern Denmark, 5260 Odense, Denmark
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- Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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- Department of History, Rutgers University - Newark, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3004, Australia
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- The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3004, Australia
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- Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, SC A1C 5S7, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4E8, Canada
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- Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9, Canada; Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L82 4K1, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Institute of Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1, Canada.
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Kristjansson D, Schurr TG, Bohlin J, Jugessur A. Phylogeographic history of mitochondrial haplogroup J in Scandinavia. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2023; 180:298-315. [PMID: 36790764 PMCID: PMC10100211 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2022] [Revised: 09/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup J is the third most frequent haplogroup in modern-day Scandinavia, although it did not originate there. To infer the genetic history of haplogroup J in Scandinavia, we examined worldwide mitogenome sequences using a maximum-likelihood phylogenetic approach. METHODS Haplogroup J mitogenome sequences were gathered from GenBank (n = 2245) and aligned against the ancestral Reconstructed Sapiens Reference Sequence. We also analyzed haplogroup J Viking Age sequences from the European Nucleotide Archive (n = 54). Genetic distances were estimated from these data and projected onto a maximum likelihood rooted phylogenetic tree to analyze clustering and branching dates. RESULTS Haplogroup J originated approximately 42.6 kya (95% CI: 30.0-64.7), with several of its earliest branches being found within the Arabian Peninsula and Northern Africa. J1b was found most frequently in the Near East and Arabian Peninsula, while J1c occurred most frequently in Europe. Based on phylogenetic dating, subhaplogroup J1c has its early roots in the Mediterranean and Western Balkans. Otherwise, the majority of the branches found in Scandinavia are younger than those seen elsewhere, indicating that haplogroup J dispersed relatively recently into Northern Europe, most plausibly with Neolithic farmers. CONCLUSIONS Haplogroup J appeared when Scandinavia was transitioning to agriculture over 6 kya, with J1c being the most common lineage there today. Changes in the distribution of haplogroup J mtDNAs were likely driven by the expansion of farming from West Asia into Southern Europe, followed by a later expansion into Scandinavia, with other J subhaplogroups appearing among Scandinavian groups as early as the Viking Age.
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- Dana Kristjansson
- Department of Genetics and Bioinformatics, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.,Center of Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Center of Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Method Development and Analytics, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.,Center of Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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Klunk J, Vilgalys TP, Demeure CE, Cheng X, Shiratori M, Madej J, Beau R, Elli D, Patino MI, Redfern R, DeWitte SN, Gamble JA, Boldsen JL, Carmichael A, Varlik N, Eaton K, Grenier JC, Golding GB, Devault A, Rouillard JM, Yotova V, Sindeaux R, Ye CJ, Bikaran M, Dumaine A, Brinkworth JF, Missiakas D, Rouleau GA, Steinrücken M, Pizarro-Cerdá J, Poinar HN, Barreiro LB. Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death. Nature 2022; 611:312-319. [PMID: 36261521 PMCID: PMC9580435 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05349-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Infectious diseases are among the strongest selective pressures driving human evolution1,2. This includes the single greatest mortality event in recorded history, the first outbreak of the second pandemic of plague, commonly called the Black Death, which was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis3. This pandemic devastated Afro-Eurasia, killing up to 30-50% of the population4. To identify loci that may have been under selection during the Black Death, we characterized genetic variation around immune-related genes from 206 ancient DNA extracts, stemming from two different European populations before, during and after the Black Death. Immune loci are strongly enriched for highly differentiated sites relative to a set of non-immune loci, suggesting positive selection. We identify 245 variants that are highly differentiated within the London dataset, four of which were replicated in an independent cohort from Denmark, and represent the strongest candidates for positive selection. The selected allele for one of these variants, rs2549794, is associated with the production of a full-length (versus truncated) ERAP2 transcript, variation in cytokine response to Y. pestis and increased ability to control intracellular Y. pestis in macrophages. Finally, we show that protective variants overlap with alleles that are today associated with increased susceptibility to autoimmune diseases, providing empirical evidence for the role played by past pandemics in shaping present-day susceptibility to disease.
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- Jennifer Klunk
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology, Biology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Daicel Arbor Biosciences, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Yersinia Research Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Yersinia Research Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Department of Microbiology, Ricketts Laboratory, University of Chicago, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London, London, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Unit of Anthropology (ADBOU), University of Southern Denmark, Odense S, Denmark
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- History Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of History, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology, Biology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology, Biology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Daicel Arbor Biosciences, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Carl R Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Ricketts Laboratory, University of Chicago, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Departments of Anthropology, Biology and Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- Michael G. DeGroote Institute of Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- Humans and the Microbiome Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Committee on Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Committee on Immunology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Brennan EJ, DeWitte SN. Sexual stature difference fluctuations in pre- and post-Black Death London as an indicator of living standards. Am J Hum Biol 2022; 34:e23783. [PMID: 35851510 PMCID: PMC9787904 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVES The degree of sexual stature difference (SSD), the ratio of male to female height, is argued to be an indicator of living standards based on evidence that physical growth for males is more sensitive to environmental fluctuations. In a resource-poor environment, the degree of SSD is expected to be relatively low. The aim of this study is to comparatively assess SSD in medieval London in the context of repeated famine events and other environmental stressors before the Black Death (BD) and the improved living conditions that characterized the post-Black Death period. METHODS To test the hypothesis that a poor nutritional environment resulted in decreased SSD in medieval London, this study compares adult individuals from early pre-Black Death (c. 1000-1200), late pre-Black Death (c. 1200-1250) and post-Black Death (c. 1350-1540) cemetery contexts from London. Maximum tibial,femoral, and lower limb lengths were used as a proxy for stature, and SSD was calculated using the Chakraborty and Majumber index. RESULTS Compared to the late pre-BD period, we find a slighter higher degree of SSD in the post-BD period for all three stature proxies used. This increase is attributed to more exaggerated increases in stature for estimated males post-BD. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates the importance of examining variables that are considered indicators of living standards in light of factors like selective mortality, catch-up growth, and urban migration patterns. Future research needs to further investigate how cultural and biological processes influence the mechanisms that produce adult stature.
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- Emily J. Brennan
- Department of AnthropologyUniversity of South CarolinaColumbiaSouth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of AnthropologyUniversity of South CarolinaColumbiaSouth CarolinaUSA
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Gopalakrishnan S, Ebenesersdóttir SS, Lundstrøm IKC, Turner-Walker G, Moore KHS, Luisi P, Margaryan A, Martin MD, Ellegaard MR, Magnússon ÓÞ, Sigurðsson Á, Snorradóttir S, Magnúsdóttir DN, Laffoon JE, van Dorp L, Liu X, Moltke I, Ávila-Arcos MC, Schraiber JG, Rasmussen S, Juan D, Gelabert P, de-Dios T, Fotakis AK, Iraeta-Orbegozo M, Vågene ÅJ, Denham SD, Christophersen A, Stenøien HK, Vieira FG, Liu S, Günther T, Kivisild T, Moseng OG, Skar B, Cheung C, Sandoval-Velasco M, Wales N, Schroeder H, Campos PF, Guðmundsdóttir VB, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Petersen B, Halgunset J, Gilbert E, Cavalleri GL, Hovig E, Kockum I, Olsson T, Alfredsson L, Hansen TF, Werge T, Willerslev E, Balloux F, Marques-Bonet T, Lalueza-Fox C, Nielsen R, Stefánsson K, Helgason A, Gilbert MTP. The population genomic legacy of the second plague pandemic. Curr Biol 2022; 32:4743-4751.e6. [PMID: 36182700 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
Human populations have been shaped by catastrophes that may have left long-lasting signatures in their genomes. One notable example is the second plague pandemic that entered Europe in ca. 1,347 CE and repeatedly returned for over 300 years, with typical village and town mortality estimated at 10%-40%.1 It is assumed that this high mortality affected the gene pools of these populations. First, local population crashes reduced genetic diversity. Second, a change in frequency is expected for sequence variants that may have affected survival or susceptibility to the etiologic agent (Yersinia pestis).2 Third, mass mortality might alter the local gene pools through its impact on subsequent migration patterns. We explored these factors using the Norwegian city of Trondheim as a model, by sequencing 54 genomes spanning three time periods: (1) prior to the plague striking Trondheim in 1,349 CE, (2) the 17th-19th century, and (3) the present. We find that the pandemic period shaped the gene pool by reducing long distance immigration, in particular from the British Isles, and inducing a bottleneck that reduced genetic diversity. Although we also observe an excess of large FST values at multiple loci in the genome, these are shaped by reference biases introduced by mapping our relatively low genome coverage degraded DNA to the reference genome. This implies that attempts to detect selection using ancient DNA (aDNA) datasets that vary by read length and depth of sequencing coverage may be particularly challenging until methods have been developed to account for the impact of differential reference bias on test statistics.
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- Shyam Gopalakrishnan
- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- deCODE Genetics, AMGEN Inc., Sturlugata 8, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland; Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland, Gimli, Sæmundargata, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, 123 University Road, Section 3, 64002 Douliu, Yun-Lin County, Taiwan; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, National Museum of Natural Science, 1 Guanqian Road, North District Taichung City 404023, Taiwan
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- Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina; Microbial Paleogenomics Unit, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015 Paris, France
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark; NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Archaeological Sciences, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- UCL Genetics Institute, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- International Laboratory for Human Genome Research, Laboratorio Internacional de Investigación sobre el Genoma Humano (LIIGH), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 3001 Boulevard Juriquilla, 76230 Querétaro, Mexico
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- Illumina Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), PRBB, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), PRBB, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), PRBB, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany; Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark; China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
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- Evolutionsbiologisk Centrum EBC, Norbyv. 18A, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway, Notodden, Norway
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- NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark; EA - Eco-anthropologie (UMR 7206), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Archaeology, Kings Manor and Principals House, University of York, Exhibition Square, York YO1 7EP, UK
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark; CIIMAR, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, Matosinhos, Portugal
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- deCODE Genetics, AMGEN Inc., Sturlugata 8, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland; Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland, Gimli, Sæmundargata, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark; Centre of Excellence for Omics-Driven Computational Biodiscovery (COMBio), Faculty of Applied Sciences, Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology (AIMST), 08100 Bedong, Kedah, Malaysia
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark; Centre of Excellence for Omics-Driven Computational Biodiscovery (COMBio), Faculty of Applied Sciences, Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology (AIMST), 08100 Bedong, Kedah, Malaysia
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, RCSI, Dublin, Ireland; FutureNeuro SFI Research Centre, RCSI, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, RCSI, Dublin, Ireland; FutureNeuro SFI Research Centre, RCSI, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Neuroimmunology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Neuroimmunology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Copenhagen Mental Health Services, Copenhagen, Denmark; Danish Headache Center, Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital, 2600 Glostrup, Denmark
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- Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Copenhagen Mental Health Services, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Copenhagen, Denmark; The Globe Institute, Lundbeck Foundation Center for Geogenetics, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- UCL Genetics Institute, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), PRBB, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain; CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Baldiri i Reixac 4, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, c/ Columnes s/n, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), PRBB, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, 08019 Barcelona, Spain
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Bldg #3140, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA
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- deCODE Genetics, AMGEN Inc., Sturlugata 8, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
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- deCODE Genetics, AMGEN Inc., Sturlugata 8, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland; Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland, Gimli, Sæmundargata, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland
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- The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark; NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway
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The plague’s impact paleodemographic and genetic measures in 15th to 16th century Gdańsk. ANTHROPOLOGICAL REVIEW 2022. [DOI: 10.18778/1898-6773.85.1.01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Yersinia pestis caused plagues and haunted Gdańsk several times during the 15th and 16th centuries. This study focuses on the following demographic effects: 1/ distributions of deceased by age in a plagued city, 2/ parameters of the life tables, 3/ estimation of the natural increase. To assess genetic effects of the plague, measures of the opportunity for natural selection were considered. Skeletal remains of 283 people from the 15th – 16th century ossuary 3009 from the Dominican Monastery in Gdańsk provided research material. Yersinia pestis DNA in this skeletal material has already been found (Morozowa et al. 2017, 2020). Distributions of the deceased by age in the study sample were compared with those for Gdańsk before the plague and with those for the mass burial of plague victims in the 14th century Lübeck. Neither catastrophic mortality was found in the material studied, nor selective nature of the plague with regard to sex and age had been demonstrated. Using the Weiss method, the rate of natural increase r=–0.005 was reconstructed. With the wide dating range of the ossuary and the fact that it contains results of both the epidemic and “normal” mortality, the natural increase value at this level seems justified. There was a deterioration in the values of life tables parameters, especially life expectancy. Newborn life expectancy dropped to 19.5–22.6 years and for a 20-year-old to 17.7 years. The measures of opportunity for natural selection also deteriorated primarily due to child mortality: the biological state index Ibs values were low (within the 0.3–0.4 range) and values of the Im Crow’s index about 1.0. Natural selection also acted on adults as evidenced by values of the gross potential reproduction rate Rpot below 0.7. Demographically the study sample was at the level of the early Middle Ages rather than the Rennaisance.
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Murchie TJ, Karpinski E, Eaton K, Duggan AT, Baleka S, Zazula G, MacPhee RDE, Froese D, Poinar HN. Pleistocene mitogenomes reconstructed from the environmental DNA of permafrost sediments. Curr Biol 2022; 32:851-860.e7. [PMID: 35016010 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Traditionally, paleontologists have relied on the morphological features of bones and teeth to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships of extinct animals.1 In recent decades, the analysis of ancient DNA recovered from macrofossils has provided a powerful means to evaluate these hypotheses and develop novel phylogenetic models.2 Although a great deal of life history data can be extracted from bones, their scarcity and associated biases limit their information potential. The paleontological record of Beringia3-the unglaciated areas and former land bridge between northeast Eurasia and northwest North America-is relatively robust thanks to its perennially frozen ground favoring fossil preservation.4,5 However, even here, the macrofossil record is significantly lacking in small-bodied fauna (e.g., rodents and birds), whereas questions related to migration and extirpation, even among well-studied taxa, remain crudely resolved. The growing sophistication of ancient environmental DNA (eDNA) methods have allowed for the identification of species within terrestrial/aquatic ecosystems,6-12 in paleodietary reconstructions,13-19 and facilitated genomic reconstructions from cave contexts.8,20-22 Murchie et al.6,23 used a capture enrichment approach to sequence a diverse range of faunal and floral DNA from permafrost silts deposited during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition.24 Here, we expand on their work with the mitogenomic assembly and phylogenetic placement of Equus caballus (caballine horse), Bison priscus (steppe bison), Mammuthus primigenius (woolly mammoth), and Lagopus lagopus (willow ptarmigan) eDNA from multiple permafrost cores spanning the last 30,000 years. We identify a diverse metagenomic spectra of Pleistocene fauna and identify the eDNA co-occurrence of distinct Eurasian and American mitogenomic lineages.
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- Tyler J Murchie
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada.
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; Department of Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada
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- Yukon Government, Palaeontology Program, Department of Tourism and Culture, Box 2703, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2C6, Canada; Collections and Research, Canadian Museum of Nature, PO Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4, Canada
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- Division of Vertebrate Zoology/Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada.
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; CIFAR, Humans and the Microbiome Program, MaRS Centre, West Tower, 661 University Avenue, Suite 505, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1, Canada.
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Murchie TJ, Monteath AJ, Mahony ME, Long GS, Cocker S, Sadoway T, Karpinski E, Zazula G, MacPhee RDE, Froese D, Poinar HN. Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA. Nat Commun 2021; 12:7120. [PMID: 34880234 PMCID: PMC8654998 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27439-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The temporal and spatial coarseness of megafaunal fossil records complicates attempts to to disentangle the relative impacts of climate change, ecosystem restructuring, and human activities associated with the Late Quaternary extinctions. Advances in the extraction and identification of ancient DNA that was shed into the environment and preserved for millennia in sediment now provides a way to augment discontinuous palaeontological assemblages. Here, we present a 30,000-year sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) record derived from loessal permafrost silts in the Klondike region of Yukon, Canada. We observe a substantial turnover in ecosystem composition between 13,500 and 10,000 calendar years ago with the rise of woody shrubs and the disappearance of the mammoth-steppe (steppe-tundra) ecosystem. We also identify a lingering signal of Equus sp. (North American horse) and Mammuthus primigenius (woolly mammoth) at multiple sites persisting thousands of years after their supposed extinction from the fossil record.
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- Tyler J Murchie
- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. .,Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.,School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.,Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.,The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.,Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Yukon Government, Palaeontology Program, Department of Tourism and Culture, Whitehorse, Canada.,Collections and Research, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
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- Division of Vertebrate Zoology/Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
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- McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. .,Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. .,Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. .,Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. .,CIFAR Humans and the Microbiome Program, Toronto, Canada.
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Mitochondrial DNA Profiles of Individuals from a 12th Century Necropolis in Feldioara (Transylvania). Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12030436. [PMID: 33808521 PMCID: PMC8003334 DOI: 10.3390/genes12030436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2021] [Revised: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The genetic signature of modern Europeans is the cumulated result of millennia of discrete small-scale exchanges between multiple distinct population groups that performed a repeated cycle of movement, settlement, and interactions with each other. In this study we aimed to highlight one such minute genetic cycle in a sea of genetic interactions by reconstructing part of the genetic story of the migration, settlement, interaction, and legacy of what is today the Transylvanian Saxon. The analysis of the mitochondrial DNA control region of 13 medieval individuals from Feldioara necropolis (Transylvania region, Romania) reveals a genetically heterogeneous group where all identified haplotypes are different. Most of the perceived maternal lineages are of Western Eurasian origin, except for the Central Asiatic haplogroup C seen in only one sample. Comparisons with historical and modern populations describe the contribution of the investigated Saxon settlers to the genetic history of this part of Europe.
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Betsinger TK, DeWitte SN. Toward a bioarchaeology of urbanization: Demography, health, and behavior in cities in the past. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2021; 175 Suppl 72:79-118. [PMID: 33619721 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Urbanization is one of the most important settlement shifts in human history and has been the focus of research within bioarchaeology for decades. However, there have been limited attempts to synthesize the results of these studies in order to gain a broader perspective on whether or how urbanization affects the biology, demography, and behavior of humans, and how these potential effects are embodied in the human skeleton. This paper outlines how bioarchaeology is well-suited to examine urbanization in the past, and we provide an overview and examples of three main ways in which urbanization is studied in bioarchaeological research: comparison of (often contemporaneous) urban and rural sites, synchronic studies of the variation that exists within and between urban sites, and investigations of changes that occur within urban sites over time. Studies of urbanization, both within bioarchaeology and in other fields of study, face a number of limitations, including a lack of a consensus regarding what urban and urbanization mean, the assumed dichotomous nature of urban versus rural settlements, the supposition that urbanization is universally bad for people, and the assumption (at least in practice) of homogeneity within urban and rural populations. Bioarchaeologists can address these limitations by utilizing a wide array of data and methods, and the studies described here collectively demonstrate the complex, nuanced, and highly variable effects of urbanization.
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- Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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