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Ancient DNA and migration: the same positions that differ between populations today.
Why this topic Ancient DNA now reads the genomes of people who lived thousands of years ago, and ancestry tests are among the most-bought genetic products there are.
2026-07-30 · UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University
New technique pinpoints human DNA inherited from 'ghost' ancestors
Reading the family-tree history hidden in the genomes of living people, the team found traces of two unknown archaic lineages, one of which may have interbred with human ancestors in Africa. The authors say ancient DNA will give the most direct evidence. None of the variants on this site is named in the coverage.
2026-04-26 · Study led by the University of California, Davis
Instead of a single ancestral population in Africa, the study proposes a network of early groups that mixed with each other over long periods. None of the variants on this site is named in the coverage.
2026-04-22 · Nature, Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project (128 new genomes plus 71 published)
The team added 128 newly sequenced genomes to 71 already published, from 45 populations in eight Latin American countries. It describes a third, previously unrecognised movement into South America at least 1,300 years ago, and a small trace in Indigenous people today of an unknown Asian lineage it calls Ypykuéra. None of the variants on this site is named in the coverage.
2026-04-08 · University of Huddersfield, mitochondrial DNA study
Humans reached Australia 60,000 years ago, new DNA study suggests
Using DNA passed down the mother's line (mitochondrial DNA), the study suggests people reached New Guinea and Australia about 60,000 years ago, possibly by two routes through Southeast Asia. The authors note that dates from a molecular clock can be challenged, and they are testing the result with whole genomes. None of the variants on this site is named in the coverage.
Nothing here yet. None of the variants we publish shares a paper with this topic so far. That is a statement about our catalogue, not about the research — and it is why this page has no list rather than a made-up one.
Europe PMC, title and abstract only, searched for “ancient DNA”, “human migration”, “population history”, “genetic ancestry”, “Neanderthal”, “Denisovan”, “ancient genomes” alongside each published rsID. Full text was not counted: it returns every paper with an rsID buried in a supplementary table. Recounted monthly.
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Where our ancestors came from. MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/topics/ancestry
It is this site's topic page on human ancestry: what ancient DNA and studies of population history say about where people came from, and which of the variants on this site those papers name.
Not on its own. One position can be much more common in one part of the world than another, but almost every version is found in many places. Ancestry estimates compare hundreds of thousands of positions at once, and even then they describe groups, not one family tree.
Because populations spent long stretches apart: some versions rose by chance, and some because they helped, such as digesting milk in adulthood in herding peoples. Each variant page on this site shows how common it is in each ancestry group.
Europe PMC is searched for papers on ancient DNA, human migration, population history, genetic ancestry, Neanderthals or Denisovans whose title or abstract also names an rsID this site publishes, recounted every month.