Journal article
Papua New Guinean Genomes Reveal the Complex Settlement of North Sahul
N Brucato, M André, R Tsang, L Saag, J Kariwiga, K Sesuki, T Beni, W Pomat, J Muke, V Meyer, A Boland, JF Deleuze, H Sudoyo, M Mondal, L Pagani, I Gallego Romero, M Metspalu, MP Cox, M Leavesley, FX Ricaut
Molecular Biology and Evolution | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2021
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Abstract
The settlement of Sahul, the lost continent of Oceania, remains one of the most ancient and debated human migrations. Modern New Guineans inherited a unique genetic diversity tracing back 50,000 years, and yet there is currently no model reconstructing their past population dynamics. We generated 58 new whole-genome sequences from Papua New Guinea, filling geographical gaps in previous sampling, specifically to address alternative scenarios of the initial migration to Sahul and the settlement of New Guinea. Here, we present the first genomic models for the settlement of northeast Sahul considering one or two migrations from Wallacea. Both models fit our data set, reinforcing the idea that an..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Georgia Kaipu (National Research Institute, Papua New Guinea), Christopher Kinipi (University of Papua New Guinea Clinic), Alois Kuaso, and Kenneth Miamba (National Museum and Art Gallery, Papua New Guinea) for their help during the sampling campaigns. We thank Chris Clarkson for his comments on the manuscript. We thank J. Stephen Lansing (Santa Fe Institute) for financially supporting some of the sequencing. We thank Monika Karmin for her help on the analysis of Y chromosome data. We thank Opale Coutant (University of Toulouse) and Adeline Morez (Liverpool University) for their help in data analysis. We acknowledge support from the GenoToul bioinformatics facility of Genopole Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees, France; the LabEx TULIP, France; and the Centre National de Recherche en Genomique Humaine (CNRGH), Evry, France. We especially thank all of our study participants. We acknowledge support from theNational Geographic Society (Grant No. HJ-156R-17) and the Leakey Foundation. This research was supported by the European Union through Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Number 810645 and through the European Regional Development Fund Project Number MOBEC008. This work was supported by the French Ministry of Research grant Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR PAPUAEVOL), the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (French Prehistoric Mission in Papua New Guinea), and the French Embassy in Papua New Guinea, as well as a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.