- West European Hunter-Gatherers (WHG) – based on an 8,000 year-old genome from Loschbour, Luxembourg. This population includes the Swedish hunter-gatherers and a Mesolitic individual from the La Brana Cave in Spain.
- Early European Farmers (EEF) – based on a 75,000 genome form Stuttgart, Germany which belongs to the Neolithic Linearbandkeramik culture. This population includes Oetzi the Iceman and a Neolithic Funnelbeaker farmer from Sweden.
- Ancient North Eurasians (ANE) – based on the 24,000 year-old genome from Mal’ta Siberia. This population includes a Mal’ta boy as well as the late Upper Paleolithic sample from Central Siberia called Afontova Gora-2. Mal’ta boy (MA1) is genetically similar to Native Americans.
ISOGG tree is in academia, and it is very apparent that Alice'a Crew is doing it right!
- Over two million hits in six months
- Most viewed pages were the SNP Index and Haplogroups R, I, E, N, J, and G
- The tree was viewed from all continents and by universities and genetic laboratories.
- New products like the Deep Clade 2.0 panel will be made possible by Y-chromosome sequencing and research
- Read lengths could improve: Illumina is migrating the HiSeq platform to 250bp (base pairs) reads and there are plans to grow to 40bp reads.
- Technologies such as PacBio and Oxford Naopore promise read length in 1 to 10 kb range
- Eventually it will make sense to sequence entire genomes instead of the Y-chromosome.
Many other grand presentations were given, but this hits the highlights. All of you will just have to become administrators of a project and join us next year for the 2015 conference!