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Uricoechea Patiño D, Collins A, García OJR, Santos Vecino G, Cuenca JVR, Bernal JE, Benavides Benítez E, Vergara Muñoz S, Briceño Balcázar I. High Mitochondrial Haplotype Diversity Found in Three Pre-Hispanic Groups from Colombia. Genes (Basel) 2023; 14:1853. [PMID: 37895202 PMCID: PMC10606881 DOI: 10.3390/genes14101853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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The analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) hypervariable region (HVR) sequence data from ancient human remains provides valuable insights into the genetic structure and population dynamics of ancient populations. mtDNA is particularly useful in studying ancient populations, because it is maternally inherited and has a higher mutation rate compared to nuclear DNA. To determine the genetic structure of three Colombian pre-Hispanic populations and compare them with current populations, we determined the haplotypes from human bone remains by sequencing several mitochondrial DNA segments. A wide variety of mitochondrial polymorphisms were obtained from 33 samples. Our results support a high population heterogeneity among pre-Hispanic populations in Colombia.
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- Daniel Uricoechea Patiño
- Doctoral Program in Biosciences, Human Genetics Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of La Sabana, Chía 250001, Colombia;
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- Human Genetics & Genomic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK;
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- Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Human Science, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín 050010, Colombia;
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Sinú, Cartagena de Indias 130011, Colombia; (J.E.B.); (E.B.B.); (S.V.M.)
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Sinú, Cartagena de Indias 130011, Colombia; (J.E.B.); (E.B.B.); (S.V.M.)
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Sinú, Cartagena de Indias 130011, Colombia; (J.E.B.); (E.B.B.); (S.V.M.)
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- Doctoral Program in Biosciences, Human Genetics Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of La Sabana, Chía 250001, Colombia;
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Martin G, Cottin A, Baurens FC, Labadie K, Hervouet C, Salmon F, Paulo-de-la-Reberdiere N, Van den Houwe I, Sardos J, Aury JM, D'Hont A, Yahiaoui N. Interspecific introgression patterns reveal the origins of worldwide cultivated bananas in New Guinea. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2023; 113:802-818. [PMID: 36575919 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Revised: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Hybridizations between Musa species and subspecies, enabled by their transport via human migration, were proposed to have played an important role in banana domestication. We exploited sequencing data of 226 Musaceae accessions, including wild and cultivated accessions, to characterize the inter(sub)specific hybridization pattern that gave rise to cultivated bananas. We identified 11 genetic pools that contributed to cultivars, including two contributors of unknown origin. Informative alleles for each of these genetic pools were pinpointed and used to obtain genome ancestry mosaics of accessions. Diploid and triploid cultivars had genome mosaics involving three up to possibly seven contributors. The simplest mosaics were found for some diploid cultivars from New Guinea, combining three contributors, i.e., banksii and zebrina representing Musa acuminata subspecies and, more unexpectedly, the New Guinean species Musa schizocarpa. Breakpoints of M. schizocarpa introgressions were found to be conserved between New Guinea cultivars and the other analyzed diploid and triploid cultivars. This suggests that plants bearing these M. schizocarpa introgressions were transported from New Guinea and gave rise to currently cultivated bananas. Many cultivars showed contrasted mosaics with predominant ancestry from their geographical origin across Southeast Asia to New Guinea. This revealed that further diversification occurred in different Southeast Asian regions through hybridization with other Musa (sub)species, including two unknown ancestors that we propose to be M. acuminata ssp. halabanensis and a yet to be characterized M. acuminata subspecies. These results highlighted a dynamic crop formation process that was initiated in New Guinea, with subsequent diversification throughout Southeast Asia.
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- Guillaume Martin
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-97130 Capesterre-Belle-Eau, Guadeloupe, France
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- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, CRB-PT, F-97170 Roujol Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France
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- Bioversity International, Willem De Croylaan 42, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Bioversity International, Parc Scientifique Agropolis II, 34397, Montpellier, France
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- Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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- CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
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Lin M, Trejaut JA. Diversity and distribution of mitochondrial DNA in non-Austronesian-speaking Taiwanese individuals. Hum Genome Var 2023; 10:2. [PMID: 36653363 PMCID: PMC9849472 DOI: 10.1038/s41439-022-00228-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Revised: 11/12/2022] [Accepted: 11/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Many studies have described the diversity of Austronesian-speaking Taiwanese people to shed more light on their origin and their connection with the "Out of Taiwan" migrations. However, the genetic relationship between the non-Austronesian-speaking groups of Taiwan and the populations of continental Asia is still unclear. Here, we studied the diversity of mtDNA in 767 non-Austronesian speakers from 16 locations in Taiwan using partial sequencing obtained from the hypervariable segment I (HVS-I) and coding regions 8,001-9,000 and 9.801-10,900 and 85 complete mtDNA genome sequences. Bayesian analysis of population structure was used to examine their relationship with over 3662 individuals representing indigenous groups of Taiwan, continental East Asia, Japan, and Island Southeast Asia. The whole analysis identified 278 haplotypes. Complete genomes revealed 62 novel subhaplogroups, of which 31 were exclusive to Taiwan. Estimates of coalescence times of all subhaplogroups showed peaks of diversification greater than 5.0 kya, likely characterizing gene flow from continental East Asian groups but not excluding in situ Taiwanese ancestry. Furthermore, a significant number of clades exclusive to non-Austronesian speakers of Taiwan (NAN_Tw) showed coalescence peaks between 1.0 and 2.6 kya, suggesting possible late Neolithic to early metal age settlements of NAN_Tw and local expansion in Taiwan.
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- Marie Lin
- Molecular Anthropology and Transfusion Medicine Research Laboratory, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Molecular Anthropology and Transfusion Medicine Research Laboratory, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea. Nat Ecol Evol 2022; 6:1024-1034. [PMID: 35681000 PMCID: PMC9262713 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01775-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Previous research indicates that human genetic diversity in Wallacea-islands in present-day Eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste that were never part of the Sunda or Sahul continental shelves-has been shaped by complex interactions between migrating Austronesian farmers and indigenous hunter-gatherer communities. Yet, inferences based on present-day groups proved insufficient to disentangle this region's demographic movements and admixture timings. Here, we investigate the spatio-temporal patterns of variation in Wallacea based on genome-wide data from 16 ancient individuals (2600-250 years BP) from the North Moluccas, Sulawesi and East Nusa Tenggara. While ancestry in the northern islands primarily reflects contact between Austronesian- and Papuan-related groups, ancestry in the southern islands reveals additional contributions from Mainland Southeast Asia that seem to predate the arrival of Austronesians. Admixture time estimates further support multiple and/or continuous admixture involving Papuan- and Asian-related groups throughout Wallacea. Our results clarify previously debated times of admixture and suggest that the Neolithic dispersals into Island Southeast Asia are associated with the spread of multiple genetic ancestries.
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Cowie RH, Bouchet P, Fontaine B. The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2022; 97:640-663. [PMID: 35014169 PMCID: PMC9786292 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2020] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may be underway, this time caused entirely by humans. Although considerable evidence indicates that there is a biodiversity crisis of increasing extinctions and plummeting abundances, some do not accept that this amounts to a Sixth Mass Extinction. Often, they use the IUCN Red List to support their stance, arguing that the rate of species loss does not differ from the background rate. However, the Red List is heavily biased: almost all birds and mammals but only a minute fraction of invertebrates have been evaluated against conservation criteria. Incorporating estimates of the true number of invertebrate extinctions leads to the conclusion that the rate vastly exceeds the background rate and that we may indeed be witnessing the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction. As an example, we focus on molluscs, the second largest phylum in numbers of known species, and, extrapolating boldly, estimate that, since around AD 1500, possibly as many as 7.5-13% (150,000-260,000) of all ~2 million known species have already gone extinct, orders of magnitude greater than the 882 (0.04%) on the Red List. We review differences in extinction rates according to realms: marine species face significant threats but, although previous mass extinctions were largely defined by marine invertebrates, there is no evidence that the marine biota has reached the same crisis as the non-marine biota. Island species have suffered far greater rates than continental ones. Plants face similar conservation biases as do invertebrates, although there are hints they may have suffered lower extinction rates. There are also those who do not deny an extinction crisis but accept it as a new trajectory of evolution, because humans are part of the natural world; some even embrace it, with a desire to manipulate it for human benefit. We take issue with these stances. Humans are the only species able to manipulate the Earth on a grand scale, and they have allowed the current crisis to happen. Despite multiple conservation initiatives at various levels, most are not species oriented (certain charismatic vertebrates excepted) and specific actions to protect every living species individually are simply unfeasible because of the tyranny of numbers. As systematic biologists, we encourage the nurturing of the innate human appreciation of biodiversity, but we reaffirm the message that the biodiversity that makes our world so fascinating, beautiful and functional is vanishing unnoticed at an unprecedented rate. In the face of a mounting crisis, scientists must adopt the practices of preventive archaeology, and collect and document as many species as possible before they disappear. All this depends on reviving the venerable study of natural history and taxonomy. Denying the crisis, simply accepting it and doing nothing, or even embracing it for the ostensible benefit of humanity, are not appropriate options and pave the way for the Earth to continue on its sad trajectory towards a Sixth Mass Extinction.
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- Robert H. Cowie
- Pacific Biosciences Research CenterUniversity of HawaiiHonoluluHawaii96822U.S.A.
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- Institut Systématique Evolution Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHEUniversité des Antilles57 rue Cuvier CP 5175005 ParisFrance
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- UMS 2006 Patrinat (OFB, CNRS, MNHN), Centre d'Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (UMR 7204), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle43 rue Buffon CP 13575005 ParisFrance
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Lo YH, Cheng HC, Hsiung CN, Yang SL, Wang HY, Peng CW, Chen CY, Lin KP, Kang ML, Chen CH, Chu HW, Lin CF, Lee MH, Liu Q, Satta Y, Lin CJ, Lin M, Chaw SM, Loo JH, Shen CY, Ko WY. Detecting Genetic Ancestry and Adaptation in the Taiwanese Han People. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:4149-4165. [PMID: 33170928 PMCID: PMC8476137 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The Taiwanese people are composed of diverse indigenous populations and the Taiwanese Han. About 95% of the Taiwanese identify themselves as Taiwanese Han, but this may not be a homogeneous population because they migrated to the island from various regions of continental East Asia over a period of 400 years. Little is known about the underlying patterns of genetic ancestry, population admixture, and evolutionary adaptation in the Taiwanese Han people. Here, we analyzed the whole-genome single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping data from 14,401 individuals of Taiwanese Han collected by the Taiwan Biobank and the whole-genome sequencing data for a subset of 772 people. We detected four major genetic ancestries with distinct geographic distributions (i.e., Northern, Southeastern, Japonic, and Island Southeast Asian ancestries) and signatures of population mixture contributing to the genomes of Taiwanese Han. We further scanned for signatures of positive natural selection that caused unusually long-range haplotypes and elevations of hitchhiked variants. As a result, we identified 16 candidate loci in which selection signals can be unambiguously localized at five single genes: CTNNA2, LRP1B, CSNK1G3, ASTN2, and NEO1. Statistical associations were examined in 16 metabolic-related traits to further elucidate the functional effects of each candidate gene. All five genes appear to have pleiotropic connections to various types of disease susceptibility and significant associations with at least one metabolic-related trait. Together, our results provide critical insights for understanding the evolutionary history and adaption of the Taiwanese Han population.
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- Yun-Hua Lo
- Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Japan
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- Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Hayama, Japan
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- Molecular Anthropology and Transfusion Medicine Research Laboratory, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Molecular Anthropology and Transfusion Medicine Research Laboratory, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Molecular Anthropology and Transfusion Medicine Research Laboratory, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Faculty of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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The first quantitative assessment of radiocarbon chronologies for initial pottery in Island Southeast Asia supports multi-directional Neolithic dispersal. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0251407. [PMID: 34077445 PMCID: PMC8171956 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Neolithization, or the Holocene demographic expansion of farming populations, accounts for significant changes in human and animal biology, artifacts, languages, and cultures across the earth. For Island Southeast Asia, the orthodox Out of Taiwan hypothesis proposes that Neolithic expansion originated from Taiwan with populations moving south into Island Southeast Asia, while the Western Route Migration hypothesis suggests the earliest farming populations entered from Mainland Southeast Asia in the west. These hypotheses are also linked to competing explanations of the Austronesian expansion, one of the most significant population dispersals in the ancient world that influenced human and environmental diversity from Madagascar to Easter Island and Hawai‘i to New Zealand. The fundamental archaeological test of the Out of Taiwan and Western Route Migration hypotheses is the geographic and chronological distribution of initial pottery assemblages, but these data have never been quantitatively analyzed. Using radiocarbon determinations from 20 archaeological sites, we present a Bayesian chronological analysis of initial pottery deposition in Island Southeast Asia and western Near Oceania. Both site-scale and island-scale Bayesian models were produced in Oxcal using radiocarbon determinations that are most confidently associated with selected target events. Our results indicate multi-directional Neolithic dispersal in Island Southeast Asia, with the earliest pottery contemporaneously deposited in western Borneo and the northern Philippines. This work supports emerging research that identifies separate processes of biological, linguistic, and material culture change in Island Southeast Asia.
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An in-depth analysis of the mitochondrial phylogenetic landscape of Cambodia. Sci Rep 2021; 11:10816. [PMID: 34031453 PMCID: PMC8144189 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-90145-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Cambodia harbours a variety of human aboriginal populations that have scarcely been studied in terms of genetic diversity of entire mitochondrial genomes. Here we present the matrilineal gene pool of 299 Cambodian refugees from three different ethnic groups (Cham, Khmer, and Khmer Loeu) deriving from 16 Cambodian districts. After establishing a DNA-saving high-throughput strategy for mitochondrial whole-genome Sanger sequencing, a HaploGrep based workflow was used for quality control, haplogroup classification and phylogenetic reconstruction. The application of diverse phylogenetic algorithms revealed an exciting picture of the genetic diversity of Cambodia, especially in relation to populations from Southeast Asia and from the whole world. A total of 224 unique haplotypes were identified, which were mostly classified under haplogroups B5a1, F1a1, or categorized as newly defined basal haplogroups or basal sub-branches of R, N and M clades. The presence of autochthonous maternal lineages could be confirmed as reported in previous studies. The exceptional homogeneity observed between and within the three investigated Cambodian ethnic groups indicates genetic isolation of the whole population. Between ethnicities, genetic barriers were not detected. The mtDNA data presented here increases the phylogenetic resolution in Cambodia significantly, thereby highlighting the need for an update of the current human mtDNA phylogeny.
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Papuan mitochondrial genomes and the settlement of Sahul. J Hum Genet 2020; 65:875-887. [PMID: 32483274 PMCID: PMC7449881 DOI: 10.1038/s10038-020-0781-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2020] [Revised: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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New Guineans represent one of the oldest locally continuous populations outside Africa, harboring among the greatest linguistic and genetic diversity on the planet. Archeological and genetic evidence suggest that their ancestors reached Sahul (present day New Guinea and Australia) by at least 55,000 years ago (kya). However, little is known about this early settlement phase or subsequent dispersal and population structuring over the subsequent period of time. Here we report 379 complete Papuan mitochondrial genomes from across Papua New Guinea, which allow us to reconstruct the phylogenetic and phylogeographic history of northern Sahul. Our results support the arrival of two groups of settlers in Sahul within the same broad time window (50–65 kya), each carrying a different set of maternal lineages and settling Northern and Southern Sahul separately. Strong geographic structure in northern Sahul remains visible today, indicating limited dispersal over time despite major climatic, cultural, and historical changes. However, following a period of isolation lasting nearly 20 ky after initial settlement, environmental changes postdating the Last Glacial Maximum stimulated diversification of mtDNA lineages and greater interactions within and beyond Northern Sahul, to Southern Sahul, Wallacea and beyond. Later, in the Holocene, populations from New Guinea, in contrast to those of Australia, participated in early interactions with incoming Asian populations from Island Southeast Asia and continuing into Oceania.
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Despite the efforts made to reconstruct the history of modern humans, there are still poorly explored regions that are key for understanding the phylogeography of our species. One of them is the Philippines, which is crucial to unravel the colonization of Southeast Asia and Oceania but where little is known about when and how the first humans arrived. In order to shed light into this settlement, we collected samples from 157 individuals of the Philippines with the four grandparents belonging to the same region and mitochondrial variants older than 20,000 years. Next, we analyzed the hypervariable I mtDNA region by approximate Bayesian computation based on extensive spatially explicit computer simulations to select among several migration routes towards the Philippines and to estimate population genetic parameters of this colonization. We found that the colonization of the Philippines occurred more than 60,000 years ago, with long-distance dispersal and from both north and south migration routes. Our results also suggest an environmental scenario especially optimal for humans, with large carrying capacity and population growth, in comparison to other regions of Asia. In all, our study suggests a rapid expansion of modern humans towards the Philippines that could be associated with the establisment of maritime technologies and favorable environmental conditions.
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Wildish DJ, Radulovici AE. Zoogeography and evolutionary ecology of the genus Platorchestia (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae). J NAT HIST 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2019.1704463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- D. J. Wildish
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Biological Station, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Macaulay V, Soares P, Richards MB. Rectifying long-standing misconceptions about the ρ statistic for molecular dating. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0212311. [PMID: 30779770 PMCID: PMC6380571 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 01/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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When divided by a given mutation rate, the ρ (rho) statistic provides a simple estimator of the age of a clade within a phylogenetic tree by averaging the number of mutations from each sample in the clade to its root. However, a long-standing critique of the use of ρ in genetic dating has been quite often cited. Here we show that the critique is unfounded. We demonstrate by a formal mathematical argument and illustrate with a simulation study that ρ estimates are unbiased and also that ρ and maximum likelihood estimates do not differ in any systematic fashion. We also demonstrate that the claim that the associated confidence intervals commonly estimate the uncertainty inappropriately is flawed since it relies on a means of calculating standard errors that is not used by any other researchers, whereas an established expression for the standard error is largely unproblematic. We conclude that ρ dating, alongside approaches such as maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference, remains a useful tool for genetic dating.
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- Vincent Macaulay
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- CBMA (Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology), Department of Biology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- Institute of Science and Innovation for Bio-Sustainability (IB-S), University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
- Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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The evolutionary history and human settlement of Australia and the Pacific. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2018; 53:53-59. [PMID: 30029008 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2018.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2018] [Revised: 06/09/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Understanding the timing and processes involved in the human settlement of Australia and the Pacific has significance for addressing some key debates relating to human origins and population expansions worldwide. Despite this, for many years, Pacific populations were seriously under-represented in genetic studies of human origins. The last 15 years, however, have seen some major genetic studies involving Australian and Pacific populations which have shed light on their origins and interactions, and the last five years have seen some major developments that are challenging long-held concepts of Pacific settlement.
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Maredia H, Hawley NL, Lambert-Messerlian G, Fidow U, Reupena MS, Naseri T, McGarvey S. Reproductive health, obesity, and cardiometabolic risk factors among Samoan women. Am J Hum Biol 2018; 30:e23106. [PMID: 29663637 PMCID: PMC5980683 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2017] [Revised: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 01/14/2018] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES Obesity leads to deleterious effects on not only cardiovascular health but also on the reproductive health of women. We estimate the prevalence of menstrual irregularity and of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) in Samoan women, among whom obesity prevalence is extremely high. We explore the association of these reproductive health conditions with adiposity, cardiometabolic risk factors, and androgen levels. METHODS A cross-sectional sample of Samoan women 25-39 years of age (n = 470) from a larger population-based genome-wide association study of adiposity and cardiometabolic disease was assessed for the prevalence of oligomenorrhea/amenorrhea (OM/AM) using a self-reported questionnaire. Serum androgens and anti-Müllerian hormone levels were assayed to determine hyperandrogenemia and presence of polycystic ovaries (PCO), respectively, using criterion values. PCOS was classified using NIH guidelines of having at least two of the three conditions: menstrual irregularity, hyperandrogenism, and PCO. We contrasted socio-demographic, reproductive health, and cardiometabolic risk factors between those with and without OM/AM and similarly for PCOS. RESULTS The prevalence of OM/AM was 7.4% (95% CI: 5.1, 9.8), and women with OM/AM had significantly higher central adiposity. PCOS was estimated at 6.8% (95% CI: 4.5, 9.1), and those with PCOS were younger but had higher overall and central adiposity measures, higher triglycerides, and higher prevalence of insulin resistance than women without PCOS. CONCLUSIONS The prevalence of menstrual irregularity and PCOS are less than hypothesized given the high levels of adiposity in this population. Nevertheless, Samoan women with menstrual irregularity and other features of PCOS have significantly poorer metabolic health.
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- H. Maredia
- Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and International Health Institute, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital, National Health Service, Government of Samoa, Apia, Samoa
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- Bureau of Statistics, Government of Samoa, Apia, Samoa
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- Ministry of Health, Government of Samoa, Apia, Samoa
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- Department of Epidemiology and International Health Institute, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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Pugach I, Duggan AT, Merriwether DA, Friedlaender FR, Friedlaender JS, Stoneking M. The Gateway from Near into Remote Oceania: New Insights from Genome-Wide Data. Mol Biol Evol 2018; 35:871-886. [PMID: 29301001 PMCID: PMC5889034 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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A widely accepted two-wave scenario of human settlement of Oceania involves the first out-of-Africa migration circa 50,000 years ago (ya), and the more recent Austronesian expansion, which reached the Bismarck Archipelago by 3,450 ya. Whereas earlier genetic studies provided evidence for extensive sex-biased admixture between the incoming and the indigenous populations, some archaeological, linguistic, and genetic evidence indicates a more complicated picture of settlement. To study regional variation in Oceania in more detail, we have compiled a genome-wide data set of 823 individuals from 72 populations (including 50 populations from Oceania) and over 620,000 autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). We show that the initial dispersal of people from the Bismarck Archipelago into Remote Oceania occurred in a "leapfrog" fashion, completely by-passing the main chain of the Solomon Islands, and that the colonization of the Solomon Islands proceeded in a bidirectional manner. Our results also support a divergence between western and eastern Solomons, in agreement with the sharp linguistic divide known as the Tryon-Hackman line. We also report substantial post-Austronesian gene flow across the Solomons. In particular, Santa Cruz (in Remote Oceania) exhibits extraordinarily high levels of Papuan ancestry that cannot be explained by a simple bottleneck/founder event scenario. Finally, we use simulations to show that discrepancies between different methods for dating admixture likely reflect different sensitivities of the methods to multiple admixture events from the same (or similar) sources. Overall, this study points to the importance of fine-scale sampling to understand the complexities of human population history.
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- Irina Pugach
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Investigating the origins of eastern Polynesians using genome-wide data from the Leeward Society Isles. Sci Rep 2018; 8:1823. [PMID: 29379068 PMCID: PMC5789021 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20026-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The debate concerning the origin of the Polynesian speaking peoples has been recently reinvigorated by genetic evidence for secondary migrations to western Polynesia from the New Guinea region during the 2nd millennium BP. Using genome-wide autosomal data from the Leeward Society Islands, the ancient cultural hub of eastern Polynesia, we find that the inhabitants' genomes also demonstrate evidence of this episode of admixture, dating to 1,700-1,200 BP. This supports a late settlement chronology for eastern Polynesia, commencing ~1,000 BP, after the internal differentiation of Polynesian society. More than 70% of the autosomal ancestry of Leeward Society Islanders derives from Island Southeast Asia with the lowland populations of the Philippines as the single largest potential source. These long-distance migrants into Polynesia experienced additional admixture with northern Melanesians prior to the secondary migrations of the 2nd millennium BP. Moreover, the genetic diversity of mtDNA and Y chromosome lineages in the Leeward Society Islands is consistent with linguistic evidence for settlement of eastern Polynesia proceeding from the central northern Polynesian outliers in the Solomon Islands. These results stress the complex demographic history of the Leeward Society Islands and challenge phylogenetic models of cultural evolution predicated on eastern Polynesia being settled from Samoa.
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Kytövuori L, Gardberg M, Majamaa K, Martikainen MH. The m.7510T>C mutation: Hearing impairment and a complex neurologic phenotype. Brain Behav 2017; 7:e00859. [PMID: 29299381 PMCID: PMC5745241 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2017] [Revised: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 09/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Mutations in mitochondrial DNA cause a variety of clinical phenotypes ranging from a mild hearing impairment (HI) to severe encephalomyopathy. The MT-TS1 gene is a hotspot for mutations causing HI. The m.7510T>C mutation in MT-TS1 has been previously associated with non-syndromic HI in four families from different ethnic backgrounds. MATERIALS AND METHODS We describe the clinical, genetic, and histopathological findings in a Finnish family with the heteroplasmic m.7510T>C mutation in mitochondrial DNA. RESULTS The family proband presented with a progressive mitochondrial disease phenotype including migraine, epilepsy, mild ataxia, and cognitive impairment in addition to HI. One young adult presented with HI only. Other family members had a mild phenotype comprising ataxia and tremor in addition to HI. Mutation heteroplasmy was 90% in the blood of maternal grandmother and ≥99% in the muscle and blood of the three other family members. Muscle histology was consistent with mitochondrial myopathy in three family members. The mitochondrial haplogroup of the family was a different branch of the haplogroup H than in the previous reports of this mutation. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that, in addition to sensorineural HI, the m.7510T>C mutation is associated with a spectrum of mitochondrial disease clinical features including migraine, epilepsy, cognitive impairment, ataxia, and tremor, and with evidence of mitochondrial myopathy.
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- Laura Kytövuori
- Research Unit of Clinical Neuroscience University of Oulu Oulu Finland.,Medical Research Center Oulu Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu Oulu Finland.,Department of Neurology Oulu University Hospital Oulu Finland
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- Department of Pathology University of Turku and Turku University Hospital Turku Finland
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- Research Unit of Clinical Neuroscience University of Oulu Oulu Finland.,Medical Research Center Oulu Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu Oulu Finland.,Department of Neurology Oulu University Hospital Oulu Finland
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- Division of Clinical Neurosciences University of Turku and Turku University Hospital Turku Finland
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Evans DL, Joshi SV. Complete chloroplast genomes of Saccharum spontaneum, Saccharum officinarum and Miscanthus floridulus (Panicoideae: Andropogoneae) reveal the plastid view on sugarcane origins. SYST BIODIVERS 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2016.1197336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Dyfed Lloyd Evans
- South African Sugarcane Research Institute, 170 Flanders Drive, Private Bag X02, Mount Edgecombe, Durban, 4300, South Africa
- School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Private Bag X54001, Durban, 4000, South Africa
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- South African Sugarcane Research Institute, 170 Flanders Drive, Private Bag X02, Mount Edgecombe, Durban, 4300, South Africa
- School of Life Sciences, College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Private Bag X54001, Durban, 4000, South Africa
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Mörseburg A, Pagani L, Ricaut FX, Yngvadottir B, Harney E, Castillo C, Hoogervorst T, Antao T, Kusuma P, Brucato N, Cardona A, Pierron D, Letellier T, Wee J, Abdullah S, Metspalu M, Kivisild T. Multi-layered population structure in Island Southeast Asians. Eur J Hum Genet 2016; 24:1605-1611. [PMID: 27302840 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2016.60] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2015] [Revised: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 05/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The history of human settlement in Southeast Asia has been complex and involved several distinct dispersal events. Here, we report the analyses of 1825 individuals from Southeast Asia including new genome-wide genotype data for 146 individuals from three Mainland Southeast Asian (Burmese, Malay and Vietnamese) and four Island Southeast Asian (Dusun, Filipino, Kankanaey and Murut) populations. While confirming the presence of previously recognised major ancestry components in the Southeast Asian population structure, we highlight the Kankanaey Igorots from the highlands of the Philippine Mountain Province as likely the closest living representatives of the source population that may have given rise to the Austronesian expansion. This conclusion rests on independent evidence from various analyses of autosomal data and uniparental markers. Given the extensive presence of trade goods, cultural and linguistic evidence of Indian influence in Southeast Asia starting from 2.5 kya, we also detect traces of a South Asian signature in different populations in the region dating to the last couple of thousand years.
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, UMR 5288, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, UMR 5288, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.,Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, UMR 5288, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, UMR 5288, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, UMR 5288, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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Contrasting Linguistic and Genetic Origins of the Asian Source Populations of Malagasy. Sci Rep 2016; 6:26066. [PMID: 27188237 PMCID: PMC4870696 DOI: 10.1038/srep26066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2016] [Accepted: 04/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The Austronesian expansion, one of the last major human migrations, influenced regions as distant as tropical Asia, Remote Oceania and Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa. The identity of the Asian groups that settled Madagascar is particularly mysterious. While language connects Madagascar to the Ma’anyan of southern Borneo, haploid genetic data are more ambiguous. Here, we screened genome-wide diversity in 211 individuals from the Ma’anyan and surrounding groups in southern Borneo. Surprisingly, the Ma’anyan are characterized by a distinct, high frequency genomic component that is not found in Malagasy. This novel genetic layer occurs at low levels across Island Southeast Asia and hints at a more complex model for the Austronesian expansion in this region. In contrast, Malagasy show genomic links to a range of Island Southeast Asian groups, particularly from southern Borneo, but do not have a clear genetic connection with the Ma’anyan despite the obvious linguistic association.
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Brandão A, Eng KK, Rito T, Cavadas B, Bulbeck D, Gandini F, Pala M, Mormina M, Hudson B, White J, Ko TM, Saidin M, Zafarina Z, Oppenheimer S, Richards MB, Pereira L, Soares P. Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritage of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia. Hum Genet 2016; 135:363-376. [PMID: 26875094 PMCID: PMC4796337 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-016-1640-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2015] [Accepted: 01/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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There has been a long-standing debate concerning the extent to which the spread of Neolithic ceramics and Malay-Polynesian languages in Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) were coupled to an agriculturally driven demic dispersal out of Taiwan 4000 years ago (4 ka). We previously addressed this question using founder analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control-region sequences to identify major lineage clusters most likely to have dispersed from Taiwan into ISEA, proposing that the dispersal had a relatively minor impact on the extant genetic structure of ISEA, and that the role of agriculture in the expansion of the Austronesian languages was therefore likely to have been correspondingly minor. Here we test these conclusions by sequencing whole mtDNAs from across Taiwan and ISEA, using their higher chronological precision to resolve the overall proportion that participated in the "out-of-Taiwan" mid-Holocene dispersal as opposed to earlier, postglacial expansions in the Early Holocene. We show that, in total, about 20% of mtDNA lineages in the modern ISEA pool result from the "out-of-Taiwan" dispersal, with most of the remainder signifying earlier processes, mainly due to sea-level rises after the Last Glacial Maximum. Notably, we show that every one of these founder clusters previously entered Taiwan from China, 6-7 ka, where rice-farming originated, and remained distinct from the indigenous Taiwanese population until after the subsequent dispersal into ISEA.
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- Andreia Brandão
- IPATIMUP (Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto), Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal
- i3S (Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto), 4200, Porto, Portugal
- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK
- ICBAS (Instituto Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar), Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira n.º 228, 4050-313, Porto, Portugal
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
- Centre for Global Archaeological Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Penang, Malaysia
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- IPATIMUP (Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto), Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B's-PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- IPATIMUP (Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto), Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal
- i3S (Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto), 4200, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Acton ACT, Canberra, 2601, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
- Department of Applied Social Studies, University of Winchester, Sparkford Road, Winchester, SO22 4NR, UK
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- Archaeology Department, University of Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3260 South St., Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Taiwan University, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Centre for Global Archaeological Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Penang, Malaysia
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- Malaysian Institute of Pharmaceuticals and Nutraceuticals Malaysia, National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
- Human Identification Unit, School of Health Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia
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- School of Anthropology, Institute of Human Sciences, The Pauling Centre, University of Oxford, 58a Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6QS, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK.
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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- IPATIMUP (Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto), Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal
- i3S (Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto), 4200, Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319, Porto, Portugal
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- IPATIMUP (Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto), Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal
- i3S (Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto), 4200, Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
- Department of Biology, CBMA (Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology), University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian-speaking populations. Hum Genet 2016; 135:309-26. [PMID: 26781090 PMCID: PMC4757630 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-015-1620-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2015] [Accepted: 11/18/2015] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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There are two very different interpretations of the prehistory of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA), with genetic evidence invoked in support of both. The "out-of-Taiwan" model proposes a major Late Holocene expansion of Neolithic Austronesian speakers from Taiwan. An alternative, proposing that Late Glacial/postglacial sea-level rises triggered largely autochthonous dispersals, accounts for some otherwise enigmatic genetic patterns, but fails to explain the Austronesian language dispersal. Combining mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y-chromosome and genome-wide data, we performed the most comprehensive analysis of the region to date, obtaining highly consistent results across all three systems and allowing us to reconcile the models. We infer a primarily common ancestry for Taiwan/ISEA populations established before the Neolithic, but also detected clear signals of two minor Late Holocene migrations, probably representing Neolithic input from both Mainland Southeast Asia and South China, via Taiwan. This latter may therefore have mediated the Austronesian language dispersal, implying small-scale migration and language shift rather than large-scale expansion.
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Early Lapita skeletons from Vanuatu show Polynesian craniofacial shape: Implications for Remote Oceanic settlement and Lapita origins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 113:292-7. [PMID: 26712019 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516186113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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With a cultural and linguistic origin in Island Southeast Asia the Lapita expansion is thought to have led ultimately to the Polynesian settlement of the east Polynesian region after a time of mixing/integration in north Melanesia and a nearly 2,000-y pause in West Polynesia. One of the major achievements of recent Lapita research in Vanuatu has been the discovery of the oldest cemetery found so far in the Pacific at Teouma on the south coast of Efate Island, opening up new prospects for the biological definition of the early settlers of the archipelago and of Remote Oceania in general. Using craniometric evidence from the skeletons in conjunction with archaeological data, we discuss here four debated issues: the Lapita-Asian connection, the degree of admixture, the Lapita-Polynesian connection, and the question of secondary population movement into Remote Oceania.
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60,000 years of interactions between Central and Eastern Africa documented by major African mitochondrial haplogroup L2. Sci Rep 2015. [PMID: 26211407 PMCID: PMC4515592 DOI: 10.1038/srep12526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup L2 originated in Western Africa but is nowadays spread across the entire continent. L2 movements were previously postulated to be related to the Bantu expansion, but L2 expansions eastwards probably occurred much earlier. By reconstructing the phylogeny of L2 (44 new complete sequences) we provide insights on the complex net of within-African migrations in the last 60 thousand years (ka). Results show that lineages in Southern Africa cluster with Western/Central African lineages at a recent time scale, whereas, eastern lineages seem to be substantially more ancient. Three moments of expansion from a Central African source are associated to L2: (1) one migration at 70–50 ka into Eastern or Southern Africa, (2) postglacial movements (15–10 ka) into Eastern Africa; and (3) the southward Bantu Expansion in the last 5 ka. The complementary population and L0a phylogeography analyses indicate no strong evidence of mtDNA gene flow between eastern and southern populations during the later movement, suggesting low admixture between Eastern African populations and the Bantu migrants. This implies that, at least in the early stages, the Bantu expansion was mainly a demic diffusion with little incorporation of local populations.
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- Jessica W. Leigh
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Otago P.O. Box 56 Dunedin 9054 New Zealand
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Otago P.O. Box 56 Dunedin 9054 New Zealand
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Bulbeck D. Craniodental affinities of Southeast Asia's "negritos" and the concordance with their genetic affinities. Hum Biol 2015; 85:95-133. [PMID: 24297222 DOI: 10.3378/027.085.0305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Genetic research into Southeast Asia's "negritos" has revealed their deep-rooted ancestry, with time depth comparable to that of Southwest Pacific populations. This finding is often interpreted as evidence that negritos, in contrast to other Southeast Asians, can trace much of their ancestry directly back to the early dispersal of Homo sapiens in the order of 70 kya from Africa to Pleistocene New Guinea and Australia. One view on negritos is to lump them and Southwest Pacific peoples into an "Australoid" race whose geographic distribution had included Southeast Asia prior to the Neolithic incursion of "Mongoloid" farmers. Studies into Semang osteology have revealed some hints of Southwest Pacific affinities in cranial shape, dental morphology, and dental metrical "shape." On the other hand, the Andamanese have been shown to resemble Africans in their craniometrics and South Asians in their dental morphology, while Philippine negritos resemble Mongoloid Southeast Asians in these respects and also in their dental metrics. This study expands the scope of negrito cranial comparisons by including Melayu Malays and additional coverage of South Asians. It highlights the distinction between the Mongoloid-like Philippine negritos and the Andamanese and Semang (and Senoi of Malaya) with their non-Mongoloid associations. It proposes that the early/mid-Holocene dispersal of the B4a1a mitochondrial DNA clade across Borneo, the Philippines, and Taiwan may be important for understanding the distinction between Philippine and other negritos.
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- David Bulbeck
- Department of Archaeology and Natural History, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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Kusuma P, Cox MP, Pierron D, Razafindrazaka H, Brucato N, Tonasso L, Suryadi HL, Letellier T, Sudoyo H, Ricaut FX. Mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome suggest the settlement of Madagascar by Indonesian sea nomad populations. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:191. [PMID: 25880430 PMCID: PMC4373124 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1394-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2014] [Accepted: 02/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Linguistic, cultural and genetic characteristics of the Malagasy suggest that both Africans and Island Southeast Asians were involved in the colonization of Madagascar. Populations from the Indonesian archipelago played an especially important role because linguistic evidence suggests that the Malagasy language branches from the Southeast Barito language family of southern Borneo, Indonesia, with the closest language spoken today by the Ma’anyan. To test for a genetic link between Malagasy and these linguistically related Indonesian populations, we studied the Ma’anyan and other Indonesian ethnic groups (including the sea nomad Bajo) that, from their historical and linguistic contexts, may be modern descendants of the populations that helped enact the settlement of Madagascar. Result A combination of phylogeographic analysis of genetic distances, haplotype comparisons and inference of parental populations by linear optimization, using both maternal and paternal DNA lineages, suggests that Malagasy derive from multiple regional sources in Indonesia, with a focus on eastern Borneo, southern Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda islands. Conclusion Settlement may have been mediated by ancient sea nomad movements because the linguistically closest population, Ma’anyan, has only subtle genetic connections to Malagasy, whereas genetic links with other sea nomads are more strongly supported. Our data hint at a more complex scenario for the Indonesian settlement of Madagascar than has previously been recognized. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-015-1394-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Pradiptajati Kusuma
- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagérie de Synthèse UMR-5288, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France. .,Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia.
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagérie de Synthèse UMR-5288, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagérie de Synthèse UMR-5288, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
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- Center for Linguistics, University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands.
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagérie de Synthèse UMR-5288, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia.
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagérie de Synthèse UMR-5288, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia. .,Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagérie de Synthèse UMR-5288, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
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Maternal ancestry and population history from whole mitochondrial genomes. INVESTIGATIVE GENETICS 2015; 6:3. [PMID: 25798216 PMCID: PMC4367903 DOI: 10.1186/s13323-015-0022-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2014] [Accepted: 02/04/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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MtDNA has been a widely used tool in human evolutionary and population genetic studies over the past three decades. Its maternal inheritance and lack of recombination have offered the opportunity to explore genealogical relationships among individuals and to study the frequency differences of matrilineal clades among human populations at continental and regional scales. The whole mtDNA genome sequencing delivers molecular resolution that is sufficient to distinguish patterns that have arisen over thousands of years. However, mutation rate is highly variable among the functional and non-coding domains of mtDNA which makes it challenging to obtain accurate split dates of the mitochondrial clades. Due to the shallow coalescent time of mitochondrial TMRCA at approximately 100 to 200 thousand years (ky), mtDNA data have only limited power to inform us about the more distant past and the early stages of human evolutionary history. The variation shared by mitochondrial genomes of individuals drawn from different continents outside Africa has been used to illuminate the details of the colonization process of the Old World, whereas regional patterns of variation have been at the focus of studies addressing questions of a more recent time scale. In the era of whole nuclear genome sequencing, mitochondrial genomes are continuing to be informative as a unique tool for the assessment of female-specific aspects of the demographic history of human populations.
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Gomes SM, Bodner M, Souto L, Zimmermann B, Huber G, Strobl C, Röck AW, Achilli A, Olivieri A, Torroni A, Côrte-Real F, Parson W. Human settlement history between Sunda and Sahul: a focus on East Timor (Timor-Leste) and the Pleistocenic mtDNA diversity. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:70. [PMID: 25757516 PMCID: PMC4342813 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-014-1201-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2014] [Accepted: 12/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Distinct, partly competing, "waves" have been proposed to explain human migration in(to) today's Island Southeast Asia and Australia based on genetic (and other) evidence. The paucity of high quality and high resolution data has impeded insights so far. In this study, one of the first in a forensic environment, we used the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) for generating complete mitogenome sequences via stand-alone massively parallel sequencing and describe a standard data validation practice. RESULTS In this first representative investigation on the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation of East Timor (Timor-Leste) population including >300 individuals, we put special emphasis on the reconstruction of the initial settlement, in particular on the previously poorly resolved haplogroup P1, an indigenous lineage of the Southwest Pacific region. Our results suggest a colonization of southern Sahul (Australia) >37 kya, limited subsequent exchange, and a parallel incubation of initial settlers in northern Sahul (New Guinea) followed by westward migrations <28 kya. CONCLUSIONS The temporal proximity and possible coincidence of these latter dispersals, which encompassed autochthonous haplogroups, with the postulated "later" events of (South) East Asian origin pinpoints a highly dynamic migratory phase.
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- Sibylle M Gomes
- Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal.
- Cencifor Centro de Ciências Forenses, Coimbra, Portugal.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "L. Spallanzani", University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "L. Spallanzani", University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "L. Spallanzani", University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
- Penn State Eberly College of Science, University Park, PA, USA.
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Genetic structure among Fijian island populations. J Hum Genet 2015; 60:69-75. [PMID: 25566758 DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2014.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2014] [Revised: 11/16/2014] [Accepted: 11/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We examined nine Y chromosome short tandem repeats (Y-STRs) and the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) hypervariable segment 1 region in the Fijian island populations of Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Kadavu, the Lau islands and Rotuma. We found significant genetic structure among these populations for the Y-STRs, both with and without the Rotumans, but not for the mtDNA. We also found that all five populations exhibited the sex-biased admixture associated with areas settled by Austronesian-speaking people, with paternal lineages more strongly associated with Melanesian populations and maternal lineages more strongly associated with Polynesian populations. We also found that the Rotumans in the north and the Lau Islanders in the east were genetically more similar to Polynesian populations than were the other Fijians, but only for the mtDNA. For the Y-STRs, the Rotumans and the Lau Islanders were genetically as similar to Melanesian populations as were the other three populations. Of the five populations, the Rotumans were the most different in almost every regard. Although past genetic studies treated the Fijians as being genetically homogenous despite known geographic, phenotypic, cultural and linguistic variation, our findings show significant genetic variation and a need for a closer examination of individual island populations within Fiji, particularly the Rotumans, in order to better understand the process of the peopling of Fiji and of the surrounding regions.
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Matisoo-Smith E. Ancient DNA and the human settlement of the Pacific: a review. J Hum Evol 2015; 79:93-104. [PMID: 25556846 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Revised: 09/01/2014] [Accepted: 10/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The Pacific region provides unique opportunities to study human evolution including through analyses of ancient DNA. While some of the earliest studies involving ancient DNA from skeletal remains focused on Pacific samples, in the following 25 years, several factors meant that little aDNA research, particularly research focused on human populations, has emerged. This paper briefly presents the genetic evidence for population origins, reviews what ancient DNA work has been undertaken to address human history and evolution in the Pacific region, and argues that the future is bright but research requires a collaborative approach between academic disciplines but also with local communities.
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- Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith
- Department of Anatomy and Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
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Taylor JA, Bondavalli D, Monif M, Yap LM, Winship I. Mal de Meleda in Indonesia: Mutations in the SLURP1
gene appear to be ubiquitous. Australas J Dermatol 2014; 57:e11-3. [DOI: 10.1111/ajd.12239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2014] [Accepted: 07/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jessica A Taylor
- Genetic Medicine; Royal Melbourne Hospital; Melbourne Victoria Australia
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- Genetic Medicine; Royal Melbourne Hospital; Melbourne Victoria Australia
- Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics and Maternal Child Health; Section of Medical Genetics; University of Genoa; Genoa Italy
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- Genetic Medicine; Royal Melbourne Hospital; Melbourne Victoria Australia
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- St Vincent's Hospital; Melbourne Victoria Australia
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- Genetic Medicine; Royal Melbourne Hospital; Melbourne Victoria Australia
- Department of Medicine; Royal Melbourne Hospital; University of Melbourne; Melbourne Victoria Australia
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NurWaliyuddin HZA, Edinur HA, Norazmi MN, Sundararajulu P, Chambers GK, Zafarina Z. Killer immunoglobulin-like receptor diversity in Malay subethnic groups of Peninsular Malaysia. Int J Immunogenet 2014; 41:472-9. [DOI: 10.1111/iji.12161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2014] [Revised: 08/15/2014] [Accepted: 10/06/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- H. Z. A. NurWaliyuddin
- Human Identification/DNA Unit; School of Health Sciences; Universiti Sains Malaysia; Kelantan Malaysia
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- Human Identification/DNA Unit; School of Health Sciences; Universiti Sains Malaysia; Kelantan Malaysia
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- Human Identification/DNA Unit; School of Health Sciences; Universiti Sains Malaysia; Kelantan Malaysia
- Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine; Universiti Sains Malaysia; Kelantan Malaysia
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- Human Identification/DNA Unit; School of Health Sciences; Universiti Sains Malaysia; Kelantan Malaysia
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- School of Biological Sciences; Victoria University of Wellington; Wellington New Zealand
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- Human Identification/DNA Unit; School of Health Sciences; Universiti Sains Malaysia; Kelantan Malaysia
- Malaysian Institute of Pharmaceuticals and Nutraceuticals; National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia; Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation; Penang Malaysia
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Duggan AT, Stoneking M. Recent developments in the genetic history of East Asia and Oceania. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2014; 29:9-14. [PMID: 25170982 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2014.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2014] [Accepted: 06/30/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Recent developments in our understanding of the genetic history of Asia and Oceania have been driven by technological advances. Specifically, our understanding of the past has been augmented by: genome sequences from ancient hominins and ancient modern humans; more comprehensive studies of existing populations (e.g., complete mtDNA genome sequences and genome-wide data) and the development of new statistics and analytical methods to interpret the abundance of new data. We review some of the new discoveries since we entered the age of archaic and modern genomics and how they have changed our understanding of the settlement and subsequent population dynamics in Asia and the Pacific.
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- Ana T Duggan
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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Nemat-Gorgani N, Edinur HA, Hollenbach JA, Traherne JA, Dunn PPJ, Chambers GK, Parham P, Norman PJ. KIR diversity in Māori and Polynesians: populations in which HLA-B is not a significant KIR ligand. Immunogenetics 2014; 66:597-611. [PMID: 25139336 DOI: 10.1007/s00251-014-0794-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2014] [Accepted: 08/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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HLA class I molecules and killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) form a diverse system of ligands and receptors that individualize human immune systems in ways that improve the survival of individuals and populations. Human settlement of Oceania by island-hopping East and Southeast Asian migrants started ~3,500 years ago. Subsequently, New Zealand was reached ~750 years ago by ancestral Māori. To examine how this history impacted KIR and HLA diversity, and their functional interaction, we defined at high resolution the allelic and haplotype diversity of the 13 expressed KIR genes in 49 Māori and 34 Polynesians. Eighty KIR variants, including four 'new' alleles, were defined, as were 35 centromeric and 22 telomeric KIR region haplotypes, which combine to give >50 full-length KIR haplotypes. Two new and divergent variant KIR form part of a telomeric KIR haplotype, which appears derived from Papua New Guinea and was probably obtained by the Asian migrants en route to Polynesia. Māori and Polynesian KIR are very similar, but differ significantly from African, European, Japanese, and Amerindian KIR. Māori and Polynesians have high KIR haplotype diversity with corresponding allotype diversity being maintained throughout the KIR locus. Within the population, each individual has a unique combination of HLA class I and KIR. Characterizing Māori and Polynesians is a paucity of HLA-B allotypes recognized by KIR. Compensating for this deficiency are high frequencies (>50 %) of HLA-A allotypes recognized by KIR. These HLA-A allotypes are ones that modern humans likely acquired from archaic humans at a much earlier time.
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- Neda Nemat-Gorgani
- Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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Lipson M, Loh PR, Patterson N, Moorjani P, Ko YC, Stoneking M, Berger B, Reich D. Reconstructing Austronesian population history in Island Southeast Asia. Nat Commun 2014; 5:4689. [PMID: 25137359 PMCID: PMC4143916 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2014] [Accepted: 07/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Austronesian languages are spread across half the globe, from Easter Island to Madagascar. Evidence from linguistics and archaeology indicates that the ‘Austronesian expansion,’ which began 4,000–5,000 years ago, likely had roots in Taiwan, but the ancestry of present-day Austronesian-speaking populations remains controversial. Here, we analyse genome-wide data from 56 populations using new methods for tracing ancestral gene flow, focusing primarily on Island Southeast Asia. We show that all sampled Austronesian groups harbour ancestry that is more closely related to aboriginal Taiwanese than to any present-day mainland population. Surprisingly, western Island Southeast Asian populations have also inherited ancestry from a source nested within the variation of present-day populations speaking Austro-Asiatic languages, which have historically been nearly exclusive to the mainland. Thus, either there was once a substantial Austro-Asiatic presence in Island Southeast Asia, or Austronesian speakers migrated to and through the mainland, admixing there before continuing to western Indonesia. Populations speaking Austronesian languages are numerous and widespread, but their history remains controversial. Here, the authors analyse genetic data from Southeast Asia and show that all populations harbour ancestry most closely related to aboriginal Taiwanese, while some also contain a component closest to Austro-Asiatic speakers.
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- Mark Lipson
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- 1] Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA [2]
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- 1] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [3]
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- Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- 1] Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA [2] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- 1] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA [3] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Duggan A, Evans B, Friedlaender F, Friedlaender J, Koki G, Merriwether D, Kayser M, Stoneking M. Maternal history of Oceania from complete mtDNA genomes: contrasting ancient diversity with recent homogenization due to the Austronesian expansion. Am J Hum Genet 2014; 94:721-33. [PMID: 24726474 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2014] [Accepted: 03/18/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Archaeology, linguistics, and existing genetic studies indicate that Oceania was settled by two major waves of migration. The first migration took place approximately 40 thousand years ago and these migrants, Papuans, colonized much of Near Oceania. Approximately 3.5 thousand years ago, a second expansion of Austronesian-speakers arrived in Near Oceania and the descendants of these people spread to the far corners of the Pacific, colonizing Remote Oceania. To assess the female contribution of these two human expansions to modern populations and to investigate the potential impact of other migrations, we obtained 1,331 whole mitochondrial genome sequences from 34 populations spanning both Near and Remote Oceania. Our results quantify the magnitude of the Austronesian expansion and demonstrate the homogenizing effect of this expansion on almost all studied populations. With regards to Papuan influence, autochthonous haplogroups support the hypothesis of a long history in Near Oceania, with some lineages suggesting a time depth of 60 thousand years, and offer insight into historical interpopulation dynamics. Santa Cruz, a population located in Remote Oceania, is an anomaly with extreme frequencies of autochthonous haplogroups of Near Oceanian origin; simulations to investigate whether this might reflect a pre-Austronesian versus Austronesian settlement of the island failed to provide unequivocal support for either scenario.
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Loo JH, Trejaut JA, Yen JC, Chen ZS, Ng WM, Huang CY, Hsu KN, Hung KH, Hsiao Y, Wei YH, Lin M. Mitochondrial DNA association study of type 2 diabetes with or without ischemic stroke in Taiwan. BMC Res Notes 2014; 7:223. [PMID: 24713204 PMCID: PMC4108081 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2014] [Accepted: 04/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background The importance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) polymorphism in the prediction of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in men and women is not well understood. We questioned whether mtDNA polymorphism, mitochondrial functions, age and gender influenced the occurrence of T2D with or without ischemic stroke (IS). Methods We first designed a matched case–control study of 373 T2D patients and 327 healthy unrelated individuals without history of IS. MtDNA haplogroups were determined on all participants using sequencing of the control region and relevant SNPs from the coding region. Mitochondria functional tests, systemic biochemical measurements and complete genomic mtDNA sequencing were further determined on 239 participants (73 healthy controls, 33 T2D with IS, 70 T2D only and 63 IS patients without T2D). Results MtDNA haplogroups B4a1a, and E2b1 showed significant association with T2D (P <0.05), and haplogroup D4 indicated resistance (P <0.05). Mitochondrial and systemic functional tests showed significantly less variance within groups bearing the same mtDNA haplotypes. There was a pronounced male excess among all T2D patients and prevalence of IS was seen only in the older population. Finally, nucleotide variant np 15746, a determinant of haplogroup G3 seen in Japanese and of B4a1a prevalent in Taiwanese was associated with T2D in both populations. Conclusions Men appeared more susceptible to T2D than women. Although the significant association of B4a1a and E2b1 with T2D ceased when corrected for multiple testings, these haplogroups are seen only among Taiwan Aborigines, Southeast Asian and the Pacific Ocean islanders where T2D is predominant. The data further suggested that physiological and biochemical measurements were influenced by the mtDNA genetic profile of the individual. More understanding of the function of the mitochondrion in the development of T2D might indicate ways of influencing the early course of the disease.
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- Mackay Memorial Hospital, No, 45, Mínshēng Rd, Danshui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
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Human genetics of the Kula Ring: Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA variation in the Massim of Papua New Guinea. Eur J Hum Genet 2014; 22:1393-403. [PMID: 24619143 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2013] [Revised: 02/06/2014] [Accepted: 02/13/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The island region at the southeastern-most tip of New Guinea and its inhabitants known as Massim are well known for a unique traditional inter-island trading system, called Kula or Kula Ring. To characterize the Massim genetically, and to evaluate the influence of the Kula Ring on patterns of human genetic variation, we analyzed paternally inherited Y-chromosome (NRY) and maternally inherited mitochondrial (mt) DNA polymorphisms in >400 individuals from this region. We found that the nearly exclusively Austronesian-speaking Massim people harbor genetic ancestry components of both Asian (AS) and Near Oceanian (NO) origin, with a proportionally larger NO NRY component versus a larger AS mtDNA component. This is similar to previous observations in other Austronesian-speaking populations from Near and Remote Oceania and suggests sex-biased genetic admixture between Asians and Near Oceanians before the occupation of Remote Oceania, in line with the Slow Boat from Asia hypothesis on the expansion of Austronesians into the Pacific. Contrary to linguistic expectations, Rossel Islanders, the only Papuan speakers of the Massim, showed a lower amount of NO genetic ancestry than their Austronesian-speaking Massim neighbors. For the islands traditionally involved in the Kula Ring, a significant correlation between inter-island travelling distances and genetic distances was observed for mtDNA, but not for NRY, suggesting more male- than female-mediated gene flow. As traditionally only males take part in the Kula voyages, this finding may indicate a genetic signature of the Kula Ring, serving as another example of how cultural tradition has shaped human genetic diversity.
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Zeng Z, Rowold DJ, Garcia-Bertrand R, Calderon S, Regueiro M, Li L, Zhong M, Herrera RJ. Taiwanese aborigines: genetic heterogeneity and paternal contribution to Oceania. Gene 2014; 542:240-7. [PMID: 24613753 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2014.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2014] [Accepted: 03/04/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In the present study, for the first time, 293 Taiwanese aboriginal males from all nine major tribes (Ami, Atayal, Bunun, Rukai, Paiwan, Saisat, Puyuma, Tsou, Yami) were genotyped with 17 YSTR loci in a attend to reveal migrational patterns connected with the Austronesian expansion. We investigate the paternal genetic relationships of these Taiwanese aborigines to 42 Asia-Pacific reference populations, geographically selected to reflect various locations within the Austronesian domain. The Tsou and Puyuma tribes exhibit the lowest (0.1851) and the highest (0.5453) average total genetic diversity, respectively. Further, the fraction of unique haplotypes is also relatively high in the Puyuma (86.7%) and low in Tsou (33.3%) suggesting different demographic histories. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) and analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) revealed several notable findings: 1) the Taiwan indigenous populations are highly diverse. In fact, the level of inter-population heterogeneity displayed by the Taiwanese aboriginal populations is close to that exhibited among all 51 Asia-Pacific populations examined; 2) the asymmetrical contribution of the Taiwanese aborigines to the Oceanic groups. Ami, Bunun and Saisiyat tribes exhibit the strongest paternal links to the Solomon and Polynesian island communities, whereas most of the remaining Taiwanese aboriginal groups are more genetically distant to these Oceanic inhabitants; 3) the present YSTR analyses does not reveal a strong paternal affinity of the nine Taiwanese tribes to their continental Asian neighbors. Overall, our current findings suggest that, perhaps, only a few of the tribes were involved in the migration out of Taiwan.
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- Zhaoshu Zeng
- Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, China
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- Foundation for Applied Molecular Science (FfAME), Gainesville, FL 32601, USA
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- Department of Dentistry, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Zhengzhou Central Hospital, Zhengzhou University, China
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, China
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Early Austronesians: into and out of Taiwan. Am J Hum Genet 2014; 94:426-36. [PMID: 24607387 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2013] [Accepted: 02/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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A Taiwan origin for the expansion of the Austronesian languages and their speakers is well supported by linguistic and archaeological evidence. However, human genetic evidence is more controversial. Until now, there had been no ancient skeletal evidence of a potential Austronesian-speaking ancestor prior to the Taiwan Neolithic ~6,000 years ago, and genetic studies have largely ignored the role of genetic diversity within Taiwan as well as the origins of Formosans. We address these issues via analysis of a complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequence of an ~8,000-year-old skeleton from Liang Island (located between China and Taiwan) and 550 mtDNA genome sequences from 8 aboriginal (highland) Formosan and 4 other Taiwanese groups. We show that the Liangdao Man mtDNA sequence is closest to Formosans, provides a link to southern China, and has the most ancestral haplogroup E sequence found among extant Austronesian speakers. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis allows us to reconstruct a history of early Austronesians arriving in Taiwan in the north ~6,000 years ago, spreading rapidly to the south, and leaving Taiwan ~4,000 years ago to spread throughout Island Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and Oceania.
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Summerer M, Horst J, Erhart G, Weißensteiner H, Schönherr S, Pacher D, Forer L, Horst D, Manhart A, Horst B, Sanguansermsri T, Kloss-Brandstätter A. Large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis in Southeast Asia reveals evolutionary effects of cultural isolation in the multi-ethnic population of Myanmar. BMC Evol Biol 2014; 14:17. [PMID: 24467713 PMCID: PMC3913319 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2013] [Accepted: 01/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Background Myanmar is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia with a population of 55 million people subdivided into more than 100 ethnic groups. Ruled by changing kingdoms and dynasties and lying on the trade route between India and China, Myanmar was influenced by numerous cultures. Since its independence from British occupation, tensions between the ruling Bamar and ethnic minorities increased. Results Our aim was to search for genetic footprints of Myanmar’s geographic, historic and sociocultural characteristics and to contribute to the picture of human colonization by describing and dating of new mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups. Therefore, we sequenced the mtDNA control region of 327 unrelated donors and the complete mitochondrial genome of 44 selected individuals according to highest quality standards. Conclusion Phylogenetic analyses of the entire mtDNA genomes uncovered eight new haplogroups and three unclassified basal M-lineages. The multi-ethnic population and the complex history of Myanmar were reflected in its mtDNA heterogeneity. Population genetic analyses of Burmese control region sequences combined with population data from neighboring countries revealed that the Myanmar haplogroup distribution showed a typical Southeast Asian pattern, but also Northeast Asian and Indian influences. The population structure of the extraordinarily diverse Bamar differed from that of the Karen people who displayed signs of genetic isolation. Migration analyses indicated a considerable genetic exchange with an overall positive migration balance from Myanmar to neighboring countries. Age estimates of the newly described haplogroups point to the existence of evolutionary windows where climatic and cultural changes gave rise to mitochondrial haplogroup diversification in Asia.
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- Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Schöpfstraße 41, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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The mutation spectrum of the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene and associated haplotypes reveal ethnic heterogeneity in the Taiwanese population. J Hum Genet 2014; 59:145-52. [PMID: 24401910 DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2013.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2013] [Revised: 11/29/2013] [Accepted: 12/05/2013] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency is responsible for most cases of phenylketonuria (PKU). In this study of the PAH mutation spectrum in the Taiwanese population, 139 alleles were identified including 34 different mutations. The V190G, Q267R and F392I mutations are first reported in this study. The most common mutations, R241C, R408Q and Ex6-96A>G, account for 23.2%, 12.0% and 9.2%, of the mutant alleles, respectively. Haplotype analysis shows that R241C and Ex6-96A>G are exclusively associated with haplotype 4.3 to suggest founder effects. On the other hand, R408Q is found on two distinct haplotypes suggesting recurrent mutations. The spectrum of PAH mutations in Taiwan shows various links to those of other Asian regions, yet remarkable differences exist. Notably, R408Q, E286K and -4173_-407del, accounting for 21% of all mutant alleles in Taiwan, are very rare or are undetected among PKU cohorts of other Asian regions to suggest local founder effects. Moreover, the low homozygosity value of 0.092 hints at a high degree of ethnic heterogeneity within the Taiwanese population. Our study of PAH mutation spectrum and the associated haplotypes is useful for subsequent study on the origin and migration pattern via Taiwan, an island at the historical crossroad of migration of ancient populations.
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Wolff PT, Arison L, Rahajamiakatra A, Raserijaona F, Niggemann B. Spirometric reference values in urban children in Madagascar: poverty is a risk factor for low lung function. Pediatr Pulmonol 2014; 49:76-83. [PMID: 23401417 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.22785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2012] [Accepted: 12/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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BACKGROUND Studies about children with respiratory diseases in Africa are impeded by the dearth of reliable data for the vast majority of countries on the continent. This study was conducted to establish representative reference values, therefore allowing a more accurate evaluation of lung function in Malagasy children. METHODS One thousand two hundred thirty-six students from three public and five private schools aged 8-12 years were recruited. A total of 1,093 children were healthy, had a valid lung function measurement and were thus deemed evaluable for this study. Lung function data were collected on consecutive days in Antananarivo, Madagascar's capital, using spirometry and a modified International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) questionnaire. RESULTS The lung volumes found were substantially lower compared to Caucasian and African equations. The mean Z-score (Stanojevic) for the forced vital capacity (FVC) found was -1.45 and -0.93 for the forced expiratory volume in 1 sec (FEV1) with significant differences between private and public schools (FVC: P = 0.0023, FEV1: P = 0.0004). CONCLUSIONS The equations established for school children in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo showed lung function values were lower than reference values for the same age group seen not only in European, but also in African American and African children. The unique ethnicity of the Malagasy people, which combines Southeast-Asian with substantial African influences, the heavy burden of pollution and poverty may explain these differences.
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Rito T, Richards MB, Fernandes V, Alshamali F, Cerny V, Pereira L, Soares P. The first modern human dispersals across Africa. PLoS One 2013; 8:e80031. [PMID: 24236171 PMCID: PMC3827445 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2013] [Accepted: 09/26/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The emergence of more refined chronologies for climate change and archaeology in prehistoric Africa, and for the evolution of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), now make it feasible to test more sophisticated models of early modern human dispersals suggested by mtDNA distributions. Here we have generated 42 novel whole-mtDNA genomes belonging to haplogroup L0, the most divergent clade in the maternal line of descent, and analysed them alongside the growing database of African lineages belonging to L0's sister clade, L1'6. We propose that the last common ancestor of modern human mtDNAs (carried by "mitochondrial Eve") possibly arose in central Africa ~180 ka, at a time of low population size. By ~130 ka two distinct groups of anatomically modern humans co-existed in Africa: broadly, the ancestors of many modern-day Khoe and San populations in the south and a second central/eastern African group that includes the ancestors of most extant worldwide populations. Early modern human dispersals correlate with climate changes, particularly the tropical African "megadroughts" of MIS 5 (marine isotope stage 5, 135-75 ka) which paradoxically may have facilitated expansions in central and eastern Africa, ultimately triggering the dispersal out of Africa of people carrying haplogroup L3 ~60 ka. Two south to east migrations are discernible within haplogroup LO. One, between 120 and 75 ka, represents the first unambiguous long-range modern human dispersal detected by mtDNA and might have allowed the dispersal of several markers of modernity. A second one, within the last 20 ka signalled by L0d, may have been responsible for the spread of southern click-consonant languages to eastern Africa, contrary to the view that these eastern examples constitute relicts of an ancient, much wider distribution.
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- Teresa Rito
- IPATIMUP (Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto), Porto, Portugal
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- School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, QueensGate, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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- IPATIMUP (Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto), Porto, Portugal
- Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Dubai Police GHQ - General Department of Forensic Sciences & Criminology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Anthropology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute for Advanced Study, Paris, France
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- IPATIMUP (Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto), Porto, Portugal
- Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- IPATIMUP (Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto), Porto, Portugal
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Analysis of mitochondrial genome diversity identifies new and ancient maternal lineages in Cambodian aborigines. Nat Commun 2013; 4:2599. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2013] [Accepted: 09/11/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Tiao MM, Liou CW, Huang LT, Wang PW, Lin TK, Chen JB, Chou YM, Huang YH, Lin HY, Chen CL, Chuang JH. Associations of mitochondrial haplogroups b4 and e with biliary atresia and differential susceptibility to hydrophobic bile Acid. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003696. [PMID: 23966875 PMCID: PMC3744426 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 06/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in the pathogenesis of biliary atresia (BA). This study aimed to determine whether a specific mitochondrial DNA haplogroup is implicated in the pathogenesis and prognosis of BA. We determined 40 mitochondrial single nucleotide polymorphisms in 15 major mitochondrial haplogroups by the use of 24-plex PCR and fluorescent beads combined with sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes in 71 patients with BA and in 200 controls in the Taiwanese population of ethnic Chinese background. The haplogroup B4 and E prevalence were significantly lower and higher respectively, in the patients with BA than in the controls (odds ratios, 0.82 [p = 0.007] and 7.36 [p = 0.032] respectively) in multivariate logistic-regression analysis. The 3-year survival rate with native liver was significantly lower in haplogroup E than the other haplogroups (P = 0.037). A cytoplasmic hybrid (cybrid) was obtained from human 143B osteosarcoma cells devoid of mtDNA (ρ0 cell) and was fused with specific mtDNA bearing E and B4 haplogroups donated by healthy Taiwanese subjects. Chenodeoxycholic acid treatment resulted in significantly lower free radical production, higher mitochondrial membrane potential, more viable cells, and fewer apoptotic cybrid B4 cells than parental 143B and cybrid E cells. Bile acid treatment resulted in a significantly greater protective mitochondrial reaction with significantly higher mitochondrial DNA copy number and mitofusin 1 and 2 concentrations in cybrid B4 and parental cells than in cybrid E cells. The results of the study suggested that the specific mitochondrial DNA haplogroups B4 and E were not only associated with lower and higher prevalence of BA respectively, in the study population, but also with differential susceptibility to hydrophobic bile acid in the cybrid harboring different haplogroups. Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in the pathogenesis of biliary atresia (BA). We determined 40 mitochondrial single nucleotide polymorphisms in different mitochondrial haplogroups in BA patients and controls. The prevalence of haplogroup B4 and E was significantly lower and higher respectively, in the patients with BA than in the controls. The survival rate with native liver was significantly lower in haplogroup E than the other haplogroups. The in vitro study using cybrid cells revealed significantly lower free radical production, higher mitochondrial membrane potential, higher mitochondrial DNA copy number and fewer apoptotic in cybrid B4 cells than cybrid E cells. The study provides a novel insight into the etiopathogenesis and the predictive value of mitochondrial haplogroups in BA.
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- Mao-Meng Tiao
- Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Olivieri A, Pala M, Gandini F, Hooshiar Kashani B, Perego UA, Woodward SR, Grugni V, Battaglia V, Semino O, Achilli A, Richards MB, Torroni A. Mitogenomes from two uncommon haplogroups mark late glacial/postglacial expansions from the near east and neolithic dispersals within Europe. PLoS One 2013; 8:e70492. [PMID: 23936216 PMCID: PMC3729697 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2013] [Accepted: 06/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The current human mitochondrial (mtDNA) phylogeny does not equally represent all human populations but is biased in favour of representatives originally from north and central Europe. This especially affects the phylogeny of some uncommon West Eurasian haplogroups, including I and W, whose southern European and Near Eastern components are very poorly represented, suggesting that extensive hidden phylogenetic substructure remains to be uncovered. This study expanded and re-analysed the available datasets of I and W complete mtDNA genomes, reaching a comprehensive 419 mitogenomes, and searched for precise correlations between the ages and geographical distributions of their numerous newly identified subclades with events of human dispersal which contributed to the genetic formation of modern Europeans. Our results showed that haplogroups I (within N1a1b) and W originated in the Near East during the Last Glacial Maximum or pre-warming period (the period of gradual warming between the end of the LGM, ∼19 ky ago, and the beginning of the first main warming phase, ∼15 ky ago) and, like the much more common haplogroups J and T, may have been involved in Late Glacial expansions starting from the Near East. Thus our data contribute to a better definition of the Late and postglacial re-peopling of Europe, providing further evidence for the scenario that major population expansions started after the Last Glacial Maximum but before Neolithic times, but also evidencing traces of diffusion events in several I and W subclades dating to the European Neolithic and restricted to Europe.
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- Anna Olivieri
- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie L. Spallanzani, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
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Delfin F, Min-Shan Ko A, Li M, Gunnarsdóttir ED, Tabbada KA, Salvador JM, Calacal GC, Sagum MS, Datar FA, Padilla SG, De Ungria MCA, Stoneking M. Complete mtDNA genomes of Filipino ethnolinguistic groups: a melting pot of recent and ancient lineages in the Asia-Pacific region. Eur J Hum Genet 2013; 22:228-37. [PMID: 23756438 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2013.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2013] [Revised: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 05/08/2013] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The Philippines is a strategic point in the Asia-Pacific region for the study of human diversity, history and origins, as it is a cross-road for human migrations and consequently exhibits enormous ethnolinguistic diversity. Following on a previous in-depth study of Y-chromosome variation, here we provide new insights into the maternal genetic history of Filipino ethnolinguistic groups by surveying complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genomes from a total of 14 groups (11 groups in this study and 3 groups previously published) including previously published mtDNA hypervariable segment (HVS) data from Filipino regional center groups. Comparison of HVS data indicate genetic differences between ethnolinguistic and regional center groups. The complete mtDNA genomes of 14 ethnolinguistic groups reveal genetic aspects consistent with the Y-chromosome, namely: diversity and heterogeneity of groups, no support for a simple dichotomy between Negrito and non-Negrito groups, and different genetic affinities with Asia-Pacific groups that are both ancient and recent. Although some mtDNA haplogroups can be associated with the Austronesian expansion, there are others that associate with South Asia, Near Oceania and Australia that are consistent with a southern migration route for ethnolinguistic group ancestors into the Asia-Pacific, with a timeline that overlaps with the initial colonization of the Asia-Pacific region, the initial colonization of the Philippines and a possible separate post-colonization migration into the Philippine archipelago.
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- Frederick Delfin
- 1] Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz, Leipzig, Germany [2] DNA Analysis Laboratory, Natural Sciences Research Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz, Leipzig, Germany
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- 1] Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz, Leipzig, Germany [2] deCODE Genetics, Sturlugata 8, 101 Reykjavic, Iceland
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- 1] DNA Analysis Laboratory, Natural Sciences Research Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines [2] The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- DNA Analysis Laboratory, Natural Sciences Research Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
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- DNA Analysis Laboratory, Natural Sciences Research Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
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- DNA Analysis Laboratory, Natural Sciences Research Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
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- Department of Anthropology, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Faculty Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
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- 1] Department of Behavioral Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines, Manila, Ermita, Manila, Philippines [2] AnthroWatch.org, Quezon City, Philippines
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- DNA Analysis Laboratory, Natural Sciences Research Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz, Leipzig, Germany
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