Continuity and admixture in the last five millennia of Levantine history from ancient Canaanite and present-day Lebanese genome sequences
Marc Haber, Claude Doumet‐Serhal, Christiana L. Scheib, Yali Xue, Petr Danecek, Massimo Mezzavilla, Sonia C. Youhanna, Rui Martiniano, Javier Prado-Martinez, Michał Szpak, Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith, Holger Schutkowski, Richard Mikulski, Pierre Zalloua, Toomas Kivisild, Chris Tyler‐Smith
This study analyzes ancient and modern genomes from the Levant to trace genetic continuity and admixture over five millennia, finding Canaanite-related ancestry and later Eurasian influences.
The American Journal of Human Genetics · Jul 27, 2017Peer-reviewedGenetics