Indigenous peoples in eastern Brazil: insights from 19th century genomes and metagenomes
Diana Ivette Cruz Dávalos, Yami Ommar Arizmendi Cárdenas, Miriam Bravo-Lopez, Samuel Neuenschwander, Silvia Reis, Murilo Bastos, Jesper T. Stenderup, Fulya Eylem Yediay, Viridiana Villa-Islas, Carlos S. Reyna-Blanco, Cláudia Rodrigues-Carvalho, Tábita Hünemeier, Morten E. Allentoft, Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim, J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, , Anna‐Sapfo Malaspinas
The paper sequences 24 ancient Brazilian genomes, including 22 Botocudos, revealing Indigenous American ancestry without external gene flow and low heterozygosity, and identifies ancient pathogen lineages.
bioRxiv · Jan 27, 2022 · PreprintGenomics