古埃及aDNA

Verena J. Schuenemann, Alexander Peltzer, Beatrix Welte, W. Paul van Pelt, Martyna Molak, Chuan-Chao Wang, Anja Furtwängler, Christian Urban, Ella Reiter, Kay Nieselt, Barbara Teßmann, Michael Francken, Katerina Harvati, Wolfgang Haak, Stephan Schiffels & Johannes Krause

Nature Communications 8, Article number: 15694 (2017) doi:10.1038/ncomms15694

Received: 19 October 2016 Accepted: 20 April 2017 Published online: 30 May 2017

Abstract

Egypt, located on the isthmus of Africa, is an ideal region to study historical population dynamics due to its geographic location and documented interactions with ancient civilizations in Africa, Asia and Europe. Particularly, in the first millennium BCE Egypt endured foreign domination leading to growing numbers of foreigners living within its borders possibly contributing genetically to the local population. Here we present 90 mitochondrial genomes as well as genome-wide data sets from three individuals obtained from Egyptian mummies. The samples recovered from Middle Egypt span around 1,300 years of ancient Egyptian history from the New Kingdom to the Roman Period. Our analyses reveal that ancient Egyptians shared more ancestry with Near Easterners than present-day Egyptians, who received additional sub-Saharan admixture in more recent times. This analysis establishes ancient Egyptian mummies as a genetic source to study ancient human history and offers the perspective of deciphering Egypt’s past at a genome-wide level. [url]https://www.[/url]nature.com/articles/ncomms15694

重点来了，结论是， 古埃及人种三例样本分别是J（mt-J1d),J(mt-M1a1),E1b1b1a1b2(mt-U6a2)。 

战虎点评：搞了半天，　古埃及人种和现在的埃及人种一样，都是E J。几乎没变。

古埃及的土著们地位是最高的，而生活在古埃及的努比亚人，黑人和利比亚人，都属于被驯服的群体，地位相当于底层的奴隶。