The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

Abstract

The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene Martin Sikora1,*, Vladimir V. Pitulko2,*, Vitor C. Sousa3,4,5,*, Morten E. Allentoft1,*, Lasse Vinner1, Simon Rasmussen6, Ashot Margaryan1, Peter de Barros Damgaard1, Constanza de la Fuente Castro1, Gabriel Renaud1, Melinda Yang7, Qiaomei Fu7, Isabelle Dupanloup8, Konstantinos Giampoudakis9, David Bravo Nogues9, Carsten Rahbek9, Guus Kroonen10,11, Michäel Peyrot11, Hugh McColl1, Sergey V. Vasilyev12, Elizaveta Veselovskaya12,13, Margarita Gerasimova12, Elena Y. Pavlova2,14, Vyacheslav G. Chasnyk15, Pavel A. Nikolskiy2,16, Pavel S. Grebenyuk17,18, Alexander Yu. Fedorchenko19, Alexander I. Lebedintsev17, Sergey B. Slobodin17, Boris A. Malyarchuk20, Rui Martiniano21,22, Morten Meldgaard1,23, Laura Arppe24, Jukka U. Palo25,26, Tarja Sundell27,28, Kristiina Mannermaa27, Mikko Putkonen25, Verner Alexandersen29, Charlotte Primeau29, Ripan Mahli30,31, KarlGöran Sjögren32, Kristian Kristiansen32, Anna Wessman27, Antti Sajantila25, Marta Mirazon Lahr1,33, Richard Durbin21,22, Rasmus Nielsen1,34, David J. Meltzer1,35, Laurent Excoffier4,5, Eske Willerslev1,22,36** 1 - Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5–7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark. 2 - Palaeolithic Department, Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, 18 Dvortsovaya nab., 191186 St. Petersburg, Russia. 3 - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal. 4 - Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland. 5 - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. 6 - Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, Building 208, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. 7 - Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China. 8 - Swiss Integrative Center for Human Health SA, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland 9 - Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen, Denmark. 10 - Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 11 - Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands Page 1