The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meetings kicks off tomorrow in San Diego. Feel free to post anything near and far related to this event in the comment thread below.
You can explore this year’s offerings via the online planner/abstract search located HERE. See anything really interesting? Here’s what I found after a quick search using the term “ancient”. Hopefully someone tweets from the South Asian talk.
Mount Lebanon provides an opportunity to study DNA from the ancient Near East
Reconstructing the peopling of old world south Asia: From modern to ancient genomes
Tracing the evolution of pigmentation-associated variants in Europe
Intriguingly, the Mount Lebanon abstract says this:
In addition, we found steppe-like ancestry in the Roman Period individuals which we have previously detected in present-day Lebanese but not in Bronze Age individuals. This supports our previous proposition that the steppe ancestry penetrated the region more than 2,000 years ago, and genetic continuity in Lebanon is substantial.
So what are we dealing with here exactly: admixture from the Hittites, Mittani, and/or Romans? Who does the Global25 point to?
See also…
The South Asian cline that no longer exists
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