Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo

Nov 22, 2023 | nature.com | Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo

NEWS AND VIEWS 22 November 2023 Genomic data from ancient humans who lived up to 7,400 years ago, sampled from across California and Mexico, unveil patterns of migration that could explain how some Indigenous languages spread in parts of North America. Migration and the sharing of cultural information between generations and groups have contributed to the proliferation of languages around the world.

Sep 18, 2023 | cell.com | Byrska-Bishop M |Byrnes J.K |Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo |Luis Pablo Cruz-Hervert

SummaryDemographic models of Latin American populations often fail to fully capture their complex evolutionary history, which has been shaped by both recent admixture and deeper-in-time demographic events. To address this gap, we used high-coverage whole-genome data from Indigenous American ancestries in present-day Mexico and existing genomes from across Latin America to infer multiple demographic models that capture the impact of different timescales on genetic diversity.