학술논문

Genetic adaptation to pathogens and increased risk of inflammatory disorders in post-Neolithic Europe
Document Type
article
Source
Cell Genomics, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 100248- (2023)
Subject
ancient DNA
immunity
host defense
natural selection
local adaptation
inflammatory disorders
Genetics
QH426-470
Internal medicine
RC31-1245
Language
English
ISSN
2666-979X
Abstract
Summary: Ancient genomics can directly detect human genetic adaptation to environmental cues. However, it remains unclear how pathogens have exerted selective pressures on human genome diversity across different epochs and affected present-day inflammatory disease risk. Here, we use an ancestry-aware approximate Bayesian computation framework to estimate the nature, strength, and time of onset of selection acting on 2,879 ancient and modern European genomes from the last 10,000 years. We found that the bulk of genetic adaptation occurred after the start of the Bronze Age,