Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors

This data release contains processed genotype data of 210 individuals newly generated and analyzed in: Ringbauer et al., Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors (2025) Individual metadata, including geographic origin, date of each individual and aDNA summary statistics, are available in this publication's online tables. This release contains three files in packedancestrymap format (punic_data.geno punic_data.snp punic_data.ind) that can be processed using EIGENSOFT (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/alkes-price/software/) and ADMIXTOOLS (https://github.com/DReichLab/AdmixTools). Note that the data is in pseudo-haploid format. For each genetic variant (here SNPs), a sequencing read covering this variant is picked randomly, and the allele this read contains is reported as homozygotes. The variant is reported as missing if no sequencing read covers it. BAM files with sequencing reads for the newly reported data can be accessed from the European Nucleotide Archive using accession number PRJEB86313. For questions about or issues with this data release, please get in touch with Harald Ringbauer: E-mail: harald_ringbauer AT eva DOT mpg DOT de