The origin of contemporary Europeans remains contentious. The authors obtained a genome sequence from Kostenki 14 in European Russia dating to 38,700 to 36,200 years ago, one of the oldest fossils of Anatomically Modern Humans from Europe. I converted this raw data of Kostenki 14 into formats familiar to genetic genealogists and
uploaded here. I also filtered with SNPs tested by DNA testing companies like FTDNA, 23andMe and Ancestry and upload to GEDMatch as kit# F999936.
Admixture
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| Dodecad v3 |
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| Eurogenes |
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| MDLP |
Eye Color
Runs of Homozygosity
RoH reveals parents of Kostenki14 are not related in their genealogical timeframe.
Y-DNA and mt-DNA
Y-Haplogroup is C-V199 and mt-Haplogroup is U2b
Archaic DNA matches
K14 seems to be closer to Ust'-Ishim/LBK/Loschbour than other ancients when viewed at 1 cM/ 100 SNPs in GEDmatch.
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| Comparison to other Ancient samples. |
Triangulated Ancient DNA Segments
The segment Chr8: 51067154 - 52075739 has 197 SNPs / 1 Mb which occurs in all Loschbour, BR2, Kostenki14, NE1 ancient DNA samples. Based on other autosomal segment matches, below is how all 4 ancients are related through autosomal DNA. "Loschbour/BR2/Kostenki14/NE1" means, the common ancestor for all 4 ancient DNA samples.
GEDmatch 1-to-many
K14 does have matches with living people around less than 10.
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| Matches in GEDmatch |
