Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil

Anna Sapfo Malaspinas; Oscar Lao; Hannes Schroeder; Morten Rasmussen; Maanasa Raghavan; Ida Moltke; Paula F. Campos; Francisca Santana Sagredo; Simon Rasmussen; Vanessa F. Gonçalves; Anders Albrechtsen; Morten E. Allentoft; Philip L.F. Johnson; Mingkun Li; Silvia Reis; Danilo V. Bernardo; Michael Degiorgio; Ana T. Duggan; Murilo Bastos; Yong Wang; Jesper Stenderup; J. Victor Moreno-Mayar; Søren Brunak; Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten; Emily Hodges; Gregory J. Hannon; Ludovic Orlando; T. Douglas Price; Jeffrey D. Jensen; Rasmus Nielsen; Jan Heinemeier; Jesper Olsen; Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho; Marta Mirazón Lahr; Walter A. Neves; Manfred Kayser; Thomas Higham; Mark Stoneking; Sergio D.J. Pena; Eske Willerslev

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Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil

Anna Sapfo Malaspinas, Oscar Lao, Hannes Schroeder, Morten Rasmussen, Maanasa Raghavan, Ida Moltke, Paula F. Campos, Francisca Santana Sagredo, Simon Rasmussen, Vanessa F. Gonçalves, Anders Albrechtsen, Morten E. Allentoft, Philip L.F. Johnson, Mingkun Li, Silvia Reis, Danilo V. Bernardo, Michael Degiorgio, Ana T. Duggan, Murilo Bastos, Yong WangJesper Stenderup, J. Victor Moreno-Mayar, Søren Brunak, Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Emily Hodges, Gregory J. Hannon, Ludovic Orlando, T. Douglas Price, Jeffrey D. Jensen, Rasmus Nielsen, Jan Heinemeier, Jesper Olsen, Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Walter A. Neves, Manfred Kayser, Thomas Higham, Mark Stoneking, Sergio D.J. Pena, Eske Willerslev

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Summary Understanding the peopling of the Americas remains an important and challenging question. Here, we present ¹⁴C dates, and morphological, isotopic and genomic sequence data from two human skulls from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, part of one of the indigenous groups known as 'Botocudos'. We find that their genomic ancestry is Polynesian, with no detectable Native American component. Radiocarbon analysis of the skulls shows that the individuals had died prior to the beginning of the 19th century. Our findings could either represent genomic evidence of Polynesians reaching South America during their Pacific expansion, or European-mediated transport.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R1035-R1037
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	24
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.078
State	Published - Nov 3 2014
Externally published	Yes

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Malaspinas, A. S., Lao, O., Schroeder, H., Rasmussen, M., Raghavan, M., Moltke, I., Campos, P. F., Sagredo, F. S., Rasmussen, S., Gonçalves, V. F., Albrechtsen, A., Allentoft, M. E., Johnson, P. L. F., Li, M., Reis, S., Bernardo, D. V., Degiorgio, M., Duggan, A. T., Bastos, M., ... Willerslev, E. (2014). Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil. Current Biology, 24(21), R1035-R1037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.078

Malaspinas, AS, Lao, O, Schroeder, H, Rasmussen, M, Raghavan, M, Moltke, I, Campos, PF, Sagredo, FS, Rasmussen, S, Gonçalves, VF, Albrechtsen, A, Allentoft, ME, Johnson, PLF, Li, M, Reis, S, Bernardo, DV, Degiorgio, M, Duggan, AT, Bastos, M, Wang, Y, Stenderup, J, Moreno-Mayar, JV, Brunak, S, Sicheritz-Ponten, T, Hodges, E, Hannon, GJ, Orlando, L, Price, TD, Jensen, JD, Nielsen, R, Heinemeier, J, Olsen, J, Rodrigues-Carvalho, C, Lahr, MM, Neves, WA, Kayser, M, Higham, T, Stoneking, M, Pena, SDJ & Willerslev, E 2014, 'Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil', Current Biology, vol. 24, no. 21, pp. R1035-R1037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.078

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