A major global study tested whether European-derived polygenic risk scores (PGS) for Alzheimer’s disease can predict risk ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family, now spoken ...

According to Reich and his colleagues, genetic evidence from 435 individuals shows that the Yamna(ya) were indeed the Proto-Indo-Europeans, though the evidence also demonstrates that they were the ...

From a purely linguistic point of view, then, Proto-Indo-Anatolian is for these researchers the equivalent of what the rest of us are used to speaking of as Proto-Indo-European. Genetic evidence for ...

Thanks to a few well-funded labs like the one in Copenhagen, the gene time machine has never been so busy. There are genetic maps of saber-toothed cats, cave bears, and thousands of ancient humans ...

The North Pontic Region is also thought to be where Indo-European languages—a group of languages endemic to most of Europe and reach as far east as northwest Iran—came from.

Genetic evidence suggests they played a key role in the ancestry of early Indo-European-speaking populations. This linguistic family includes not only Hindi, Bengali, and Marathi, but also English ...

Ancient DNA reveals Indo-European speakers came from a region where multiple populations mixed and migrated over time. Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may ...

But even though they clearly speak a form of Proto-Indo-European, science has never been able to explain where they got it. But Pinhasi and his team, via their analysis of ancient DNA from over 435 ...

But Dr. Metspalu hesitated to jump from the new genetic data to firm conclusions about who first spoke Indo-European. “Genes don’t tell us anything about language, period,” he said.

The method has been extensively used to reconstruct genetic histories and ancestry models using aDNA derived from Indo-European and Native American populations.