Oral metagenomes from Native American Ancestors reveal distinct microbial lineages in the pre-contact era.
Tanvi P HonapCara R MonroeSarah J JohnsonDavid K JacobsonChristopher A AbinRita M AustinPaul SandbergMarc LevineKrithivasan SankaranarayananCecil M LewisPublished in: American journal of biological anthropology (2023)
We present the largest oral metagenome dataset from a pre-contact Native American population and demonstrate the presence of distinct lineages of oral microbes specific to the pre-contact Americas.