Genetic Genealogy & Ancient DNA in the News (DISCUSSION ONLY)

[castle3]

Very interesting. Great to some some Y-DNA was gathered.

[ADW_1981]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland...lands-50095632

Orkney link to Pictish man buried in Highland cave

A Pictish man who was killed and then buried in a cave in the Highlands 1,400 years ago had links to Orkney, according to genetic analysis.

Was identified as L151, would be interested in knowing downstream mutations if available.

[castle3]

Hear! Hear! Sometimes they play safe, but have an idea of what's downstream.

[manesh]

Large-scale data resource for the community - "Allen Ancient DNA Atlas"
Data on 7997 ancient individuals

Published in 2019: 3196

So, there are in total 4801 unpublished ancient individuals, this is more than that is published, and I suppose this number has increased in the last months and will increase each day. The question is, why cant the people in the public see the unpublished data? Academicians just wont use it in their papers until the data is published, but why cant the people so much interested in seeing the unpublished data from understudied cultures not see it? And when will this atlas be published?

The following information is from a news in June 26, 2019:

Now, Harvard Medical School has received a $15.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation—one of the largest awards in the foundation’s history—to lead the ancient DNA community in exploring these questions.

The Ancient DNA Atlas of Humanity, led by David Reich, professor of genetics in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, will quintuple the number of published ancient human genome sequences, creating a database of 10,000 individuals spanning 50,000 years.

Such a database “would not have been possible to create by other means,” said Reich.

He added that the grant is “a grand bet” on the power of ancient genomics “to enhance and deepen our understanding of who we are and how we’re related to one another.”

The main goal of the initiative is to expand the study of human evolution and the origins of disease, including how genetic changes in the past have shaped present-day disease susceptibility.

Initiative leaders also hope the results will illuminate “humanity’s capacity to adapt in the face of changing environmental conditions” such as climate change, said Kevin Arnold, senior program officer at the foundation.

The effort will leverage funding from additional organizations, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Paul Allen Foundation and the National Geographic Society. While largely based at HMS, it will also support work in the Human Evolutionary Biology Department in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vienna in Austria.

[rozenfeld]

Large-scale data resource for the community - "Allen Ancient DNA Atlas"
Data on 7997 ancient individuals

Published in 2019: 3196

So, there are in total 4801 unpublished ancient individuals, this is more than that is published, and I suppose this number has increased in the last months and will increase each day. The question is, why cant the people in the public see the unpublished data? Academicians just wont use it in their papers until the data is published, but why cant the people so much interested in seeing the unpublished data from understudied cultures not see it? And when will this atlas be published?

The following information is from a news in June 26, 2019:

In this video, at 30:34 the map with 7000 samples is shown:

[Dieu]

In this video, at 30:34 the map with 7000 samples is shown:

So R1b L51 in Nijni Novgorod area and north of it (Velsk area) ?

[falconson1]

In this video, at 30:34 the map with 7000 samples is shown:

There do not appear to be any samples from Ireland, Jutland, Norway or western Sweden. I hope that Scandinavian researchers with a proven track record such as Eske Willerslev from Denmark and Kristian Kristiansen from Sweden will remedy this apparent omission.

[Lank]

Good to see Egyptian samples from a number of different locations! Hopefully that includes some predynastic samples.

[Agamemnon]

I'm really looking forward to the Mesopotamian data, this is very sorely needed. The Arabian samples should be quite interesting as well. And of course, more Egyptian data is great.

I've been told about the Maltese samples, so I more or less know what to expect. It seems we'll also be seeing some Cycladic samples, that should be quite interesting.

[Ajeje Brazorf]

So all those blue dots are ancient DNA? That's impressive.