Centre of Molecular Anthropology for Ancient DNA Studies, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
PhD Program in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Ann Hum Biol. 2021 May;48(3):234-246. doi: 10.1080/03014460.2021.1944313.
Rome became the prosperous Capital of the Roman Empire through the political and military conquests of neighbouring areas. People were able to move Romeward modifying the Rome area's demographic structure. However, the genomic evidence for the population of one of the broadest Empires in antiquity has been sparse until recently.
The genomic analysis of people buried in Quarto Cappello del Prete (QCP) necropolis was carried out to help elucidate the genomic structure of Imperial Rome inhabitants.
We recruited twenty-five individuals from QCP for ancient DNA analysis through whole-genome sequencing. Multiple investigations were carried out to unveil the genetic components featuring in the studied samples and the community's putative demographic structure.
We generated reliable whole-genome data for 7 samples surviving quality controls. The distribution of Imperial Romans from QCP partly overlaps with present-day Southern Mediterranean and Southern-Near Eastern populations.
The genomic legacy with the south-eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Central and Western Northern-African coast funerary influence pave the way for considering people buried in QCP as resembling a Punic-derived human group.
罗马通过征服邻近地区的政治和军事手段成为繁荣的罗马帝国之都。人们能够向罗马迁移，改变罗马地区的人口结构。然而，直到最近，人们对古代最广泛的帝国之一的人口的基因组证据还很少。
对埋葬在 Quarto Cappello del Prete (QCP) 墓地的人的基因组进行分析，以帮助阐明罗马帝国居民的基因组结构。
我们通过全基因组测序从 QCP 招募了 25 名个体进行古代 DNA 分析。进行了多项研究以揭示研究样本的遗传成分和社区的假定人口结构。
我们为 7 个通过质量控制的样本生成了可靠的全基因组数据。来自 QCP 的罗马帝国人的分布与当今的南地中海和南近东人口部分重叠。
与地中海东南岸以及中西北非海岸丧葬影响的基因组遗产为将埋葬在 QCP 的人视为类似于布匿人人类群体铺平了道路。
