Fig. 2.

The 16th century plague victims and modern inhabitants of Ellwangen form a continuous population. (A) PCA showing the 16th century (red) and modern (blue) Ellwangen populations in the context of 65 modern-day populations from West-Eurasia based on 1,233,013 genome-wide SNPs (Lazaridis et al. 2014; Haak et al. 2015; Fu et al. 2016). (B) Admixture modeling based on four ancestral components (K = 4) of the same 65 modern West Eurasian populations including 16th century (Ellwangen plague) and modern Ellwangen (Ellwangen modern) populations. The K = 4 model was chosen due to the lowest cross-validation error.