Ancient nuclear genomes enable repatriation of Indigenous human remains

For many decades Indigenous people, including Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians, have fought for their return of their ancient people. By sequencing ten ancient nuclear genomes of Aboriginal Australians and 27 mitogenomes from ancient pre-European Aboriginal Australians (up to 1,540 yr BP) of known provenance we demonstrate the feasibility of successfully identifying the geographic origins of unprovenanced ancestral remains using genomic methods.

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Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset 1 Publication

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00001004492	BAM files for high-throughput whole genome sequence data of 17 modern Aboriginal Australians	HiSeq X Ten	17

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Ancient nuclear genomes enable repatriation of Indigenous human remains. Wright JL, Wasef S, Heupink TH, Westaway MC, Rasmussen S, Pardoe C, Fourmile GG, Young M, Johnson T, Slade J, Kennedy R, Winch P, Pappin M, Wales T, Bates WB, Hamilton S, Whyman N, van Holst Pellekaan S, McAllister PJ, Taçon PSC, Curnoe D, Li R, Millar C, Subramanian S, Willerslev E, Malaspinas AS, Sikora M, Lambert DM. Sci Adv 4: 2018 eaau5064	7

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Ancient nuclear genomes enable repatriation of Indigenous human remains.
Wright JL, Wasef S, Heupink TH, Westaway MC, Rasmussen S, Pardoe C, Fourmile GG, Young M, Johnson T, Slade J, Kennedy R, Winch P, Pappin M, Wales T, Bates WB, Hamilton S, Whyman N, van Holst Pellekaan S, McAllister PJ, Taçon PSC, Curnoe D, Li R, Millar C, Subramanian S, Willerslev E, Malaspinas AS, Sikora M, Lambert DM. Sci Adv 4: 2018 eaau5064