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A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia
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The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterised, not least because of a lack of extensive genomic data. We generated high-coverage genomes for 83 geographically diverse Aboriginal Australians (all speakers of Pama-Nyungan languages) and 25 Papuans from the New Guinea Highlands. We find that Papuan and Aboriginal Australian ancestors diversified from each other 25-40 thousand years ago (kya), suggesting early population structure in the ancient continent of Sah...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
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Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness
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Danish National Research Foundation
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Swiss National Science Foundation
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Australian Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nature Journal website
- Volume:
- 538
- Issue:
- 7624
- Pages:
- 207-214
- Publication date:
- 2016-09-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-04
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-4687
- ISSN:
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0028-0836
- Pmid:
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27654914
- Source identifiers:
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655810
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:655810
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- Local pid:
- pubs:655810
- Deposit date:
- 2018-06-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Macmillan Publishers Limited
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Nature Publishing Group at: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18299
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