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Bai F, Liu Y, Wangdue S, Wang T, He W, Xi L, Tsho Y, Tsering T, Cao P, Dai Q, Liu F, Feng X, Zhang M, Ran J, Ping W, Payon D, Mao X, Tong Y, Tsring T, Chen Z, Fu Q. Ancient genomes revealed the complex human interactions of the ancient western Tibetans. Curr Biol 2024; 34:2594-2605.e7. [PMID: 38781957 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.068] [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: 09/21/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
Abstract
The western Tibetan Plateau is the crossroad between the Tibetan Plateau, Central Asia, and South Asia, and it is a potential human migration pathway connecting these regions. However, the population history of the western Tibetan Plateau remains largely unexplored due to the lack of ancient genomes covering a long-time interval from this area. Here, we reported genome-wide data of 65 individuals dated to 3,500-300 years before present (BP) in the Ngari prefecture. The ancient western Tibetan Plateau populations share the majority of their genetic components with the southern Tibetan Plateau populations and have maintained genetic continuity since 3,500 BP while maintaining interactions with populations within and outside the Tibetan Plateau. Within the Tibetan Plateau, the ancient western Tibetan Plateau populations were influenced by the additional expansion from the south to the southwest plateau before 1,800 BP. Outside the Tibetan Plateau, the western Tibetan Plateau populations interacted with both South and Central Asian populations at least 2,000 years ago, and the South Asian-related genetic influence, despite being very limited, was from the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) migrants in Central Asia instead of the IVC populations from the Indus Valley. In light of the new genetic data, our study revealed the complex population interconnections across and within the Tibetan Plateau.
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- Fan Bai
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, Xi'an 710054, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing 100044, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Vincenti G, Molinaro L, Sajjadi SMS, Moradi H, Pagani L, Fabbri PF. Female biased adult sex ratio in the Bronze Age cemetery of Shahr-i Sokhta (Iran) as an indicator of long distance trade and matrilocality. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2024; 183:e24911. [PMID: 38348756 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2023] [Revised: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024]
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OBJECTIVES This paper starts from the unusual observation of the overrepresentation of females among adults in the cemetery of Bronze Age Shahr-i Sokhta (Seistan, Iran) and explores the post marital residence pattern. By integrating taphonomical (skeletal preservation), anthropological (sex ratio [SR], sexual dimorphism, stress indicators, age at death), archeological (long distance trade indicators, habitation floor area, social role of women), and ancient DNA (heterozygosity levels in X chromosomes) data we test the hypothesis of post marital matrilocality in the site. METHODS We computed the SR (pelvis-based sex determination) in a random unpublished adult sample from the cemetery of Shahr-i Sokhta and in two samples previously published by other authors. We used comparative data on SR from: a large Supra Regional multi-chronological sample of sites, n = 47, with 8808 adult sexed individuals, from Southern Europe, Egypt, Middle East, Southern Russia; a Regional Bronze Age sample of sites (n = 10) from Bactria Margiana and Indus Valley with 1324 adult sexed individuals. We estimated the heterozygosity levels in X chromosomes compared with the rest of the autosomes on the assumption that in a matrilocal society females should show lower variability than men. RESULTS Adult SR in a sample (n = 549) from Shahr-i Sokhta is 70.5, the overrepresentation of females is shared with Regional Bronze Age sites from Bactria Margiana (SR = 72.09) and Indus Valley (SR = 67.54). On the contrary, in a larger Supra Regional multi-chronological sample of sites, mean SR ranges between 112.7 (Bronze Age) and 163.1 (Middle Ages). Taphonomical and anthropological indicators do not explain the overrepresentation of female skeletons. Archeological indicators suggest a high social status of women and that the society was devoted to long range trade activities. heterozygosity levels in X chromosomes are in agreement with a matrilocal society. CONCLUSIONS Indicators suggest that Bronze Age Shahr-ì Sokhta was a matrilocal society and that long distance trade was an important economic factor producing an overrepresentation of adult female skeletons in the cemetery.
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- Giorgia Vincenti
- MAIPS, Multidisciplinary Archaeological Italian Project at Shahr-i Sokhta - Dipartimento Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Antropologia Fisica, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- MAIPS, Multidisciplinary Archaeological Italian Project at Shahr-i Sokhta, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
- Museo Fiorentino di Preistoria, Firenze, Italy
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Sirak K, Jansen Van Rensburg J, Brielle E, Chen B, Lazaridis I, Ringbauer H, Mah M, Mallick S, Micco A, Rohland N, Callan K, Curtis E, Kearns A, Lawson AM, Workman JN, Zalzala F, Ahmed Al-Orqbi AS, Ahmed Salem EM, Salem Hasan AM, Britton DC, Reich D. Medieval DNA from Soqotra points to Eurasian origins of an isolated population at the crossroads of Africa and Arabia. Nat Ecol Evol 2024; 8:817-829. [PMID: 38332026 PMCID: PMC11009077 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02322-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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Soqotra, an island situated at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden in the northwest Indian Ocean between Africa and Arabia, is home to ~60,000 people subsisting through fishing and semi-nomadic pastoralism who speak a Modern South Arabian language. Most of what is known about Soqotri history derives from writings of foreign travellers who provided little detail about local people, and the geographic origins and genetic affinities of early Soqotri people has not yet been investigated directly. Here we report genome-wide data from 39 individuals who lived between ~650 and 1750 CE at six locations across the island and document strong genetic connections between Soqotra and the similarly isolated Hadramawt region of coastal South Arabia that likely reflects a source for the peopling of Soqotra. Medieval Soqotri can be modelled as deriving ~86% of their ancestry from a population such as that found in the Hadramawt today, with the remaining ~14% best proxied by an Iranian-related source with up to 2% ancestry from the Indian sub-continent, possibly reflecting genetic exchanges that occurred along with archaeologically documented trade from these regions. In contrast to all other genotyped populations of the Arabian Peninsula, genome-level analysis of the medieval Soqotri is consistent with no sub-Saharan African admixture dating to the Holocene. The deep ancestry of people from medieval Soqotra and the Hadramawt is also unique in deriving less from early Holocene Levantine farmers and more from groups such as Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from the Levant (Natufians) than other mainland Arabians. This attests to migrations by early farmers having less impact in southernmost Arabia and Soqotra and provides compelling evidence that there has not been complete population replacement between the Pleistocene and Holocene throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Medieval Soqotra harboured a small population that showed qualitatively different marriage practices from modern Soqotri, with first-cousin unions occurring significantly less frequently than today.
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- Kendra Sirak
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Strandberg NA, Steinbauer MJ, Walentowitz A, Gosling WD, Fall PL, Prebble M, Stevenson J, Wilmshurst JM, Sear DA, Langdon PG, Edwards ME, Nogué S. Floristic homogenization of South Pacific islands commenced with human arrival. Nat Ecol Evol 2024; 8:511-518. [PMID: 38225430 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02306-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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The increasing similarity of plant species composition among distinct areas is leading to the homogenization of ecosystems globally. Human actions such as ecosystem modification, the introduction of non-native plant species and the extinction or extirpation of endemic and native plant species are considered the main drivers of this trend. However, little is known about when floristic homogenization began or about pre-human patterns of floristic similarity. Here we investigate vegetation trends during the past 5,000 years across the tropical, sub-tropical and warm temperate South Pacific using fossil pollen records from 15 sites on 13 islands within the biogeographical realm of Oceania. The site comparisons show that floristic homogenization has increased over the past 5,000 years. Pairwise Bray-Curtis similarity results also show that when two islands were settled by people in a given time interval, their floristic similarity is greater than when one or neither of the islands were settled. Importantly, higher elevation sites, which are less likely to have experienced human impacts, tended to show less floristic homogenization. While biotic homogenization is often referred to as a contemporary issue, we have identified a much earlier trend, likely driven by human colonization of the islands and subsequent impacts.
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- Nichola A Strandberg
- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK.
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- Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) and Bayreuth Center for Sport Science (BaySpo), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
- Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
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- Department of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
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- School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Long-term Ecology Laboratory, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK
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- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK
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- School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK
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- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain.
- CREAF, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain.
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Mallick S, Micco A, Mah M, Ringbauer H, Lazaridis I, Olalde I, Patterson N, Reich D. The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes. Sci Data 2024; 11:182. [PMID: 38341426 PMCID: PMC10858950 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03031-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
Abstract
More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans. While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the commitment of the paleogenomics community to open data, formats for both raw data and meta-data differ. There is thus a need for uniform curation and a centralized, version-controlled compendium that researchers can download, analyze, and reference. Since 2019, we have been maintaining the Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR), which aims to provide an up-to-date, curated version of the world's published ancient human DNA data, represented at more than a million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at which almost all ancient individuals have been assayed. The AADR has gone through six public releases at the time of writing and review of this manuscript, and crossed the threshold of >10,000 individuals with published genome-wide ancient DNA data at the end of 2022. This note is intended as a citable descriptor of the AADR.
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- Swapan Mallick
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- BIOMICs Research Group, University of the Basque Country, 01006, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
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Peyrégne S, Slon V, Kelso J. More than a decade of genetic research on the Denisovans. Nat Rev Genet 2024; 25:83-103. [PMID: 37723347 DOI: 10.1038/s41576-023-00643-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
Abstract
Denisovans, a group of now extinct humans who lived in Eastern Eurasia in the Middle and Late Pleistocene, were first identified from DNA sequences just over a decade ago. Only ten fragmentary remains from two sites have been attributed to Denisovans based entirely on molecular information. Nevertheless, there has been great interest in using genetic data to understand Denisovans and their place in human history. From the reconstruction of a single high-quality genome, it has been possible to infer their population history, including events of admixture with other human groups. Additionally, the identification of Denisovan DNA in the genomes of present-day individuals has provided insights into the timing and routes of dispersal of ancient modern humans into Asia and Oceania, as well as the contributions of archaic DNA to the physiology of present-day people. In this Review, we synthesize more than a decade of research on Denisovans, reconcile controversies and summarize insights into their population history and phenotype. We also highlight how our growing knowledge about Denisovans has provided insights into our own evolutionary history.
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- Stéphane Peyrégne
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- The Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
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Zinger W, Valentin F, Spriggs M, Bedford S, Flexner JL, Willie E, Kuautonga T, Détroit F. "Feeling at home in Vanuatu": Integration of newcomers from the East during the last millennium. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0290465. [PMID: 38295041 PMCID: PMC10830024 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
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Several localities across the Vanuatu archipelago (Melanesia), so-called 'Polynesian Outliers', are inhabited by communities that display Polynesian linguistic and cultural features although being located outside the Polynesian Triangle. Several introductions of Polynesian genetic components to Central and Southern Vanuatu during the last millenium have resulted in the cultural distinctiveness observed among the Polynesian Outliers in Vanuatu. However, social, political or economic process surrounding the exchange of genes between Polynesian and local individuals remain unidentified. Recent bioanthropological studies suggest the existence of female mobilities from neighboring regions to Vanuatu but also to the Polynesian Outliers of Taumako (Solomon Islands) within patrilocal societies. We aim to examine the hypothesis that Polynesian biological affinities observed in ancient individuals from Vanuatu are gendered or sex-specific, and that some of the Polynesian migrations during the last millennium may have involved practices of exogamy. By reconstructing phenotypes and biological identities from 13 archaeologically-recovered human skulls (400-300 years ago) from "Polynesian-related" regions of Vanuatu, we provide new insights to better contextualize the settlement patterns of Polynesian individuals. Eastern-Pacific associated phenotype are observable in 4 women from the Eretok burial complex (Efate region) and the Polynesian Outlier of Futuna, who were buried in close proximity to individuals with Western-Pacific associated phenotype. We suggest that close integration of individuals from the East into the local Vanuatu society, as well as the practice of exogamy, might have been key processes contributing to the preservation of Polynesian cultural features in Vanuatu over the past millennium. Our finding are cross-referenced with oral records from these two areas, as well as the known genetic makeup of the Vanuatu Polynesian Outliers.
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- Wanda Zinger
- Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics Group, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany
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- UMR 8068 TEMPS/CNRS/ Université Paris1 Panthéon Sorbonne/ Université Paris Nanterre/ Ministère de la Culture, MSH Mondes, Nanterre, France
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- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- School of Culture, History & Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Vanuatu Cultural Centre Port Vila, Port Vila, Vanuatu
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- Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics Group, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany
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He G, Wang P, Chen J, Liu Y, Sun Y, Hu R, Duan S, Sun Q, Tang R, Yang J, Wang Z, Yun L, Hu L, Yan J, Nie S, Wei L, Liu C, Wang M. Differentiated genomic footprints suggest isolation and long-distance migration of Hmong-Mien populations. BMC Biol 2024; 22:18. [PMID: 38273256 PMCID: PMC10809681 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-024-01828-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND The underrepresentation of Hmong-Mien (HM) people in Asian genomic studies has hindered our comprehensive understanding of the full landscape of their evolutionary history and complex trait architecture. South China is a multi-ethnic region and indigenously settled by ethnolinguistically diverse HM, Austroasiatic (AA), Tai-Kadai (TK), Austronesian (AN), and Sino-Tibetan (ST) people, which is regarded as East Asia's initial cradle of biodiversity. However, previous fragmented genetic studies have only presented a fraction of the landscape of genetic diversity in this region, especially the lack of haplotype-based genomic resources. The deep characterization of demographic history and natural-selection-relevant genetic architecture of HM people was necessary. RESULTS We reported one HM-specific genomic resource and comprehensively explored the fine-scale genetic structure and adaptative features inferred from the genome-wide SNP data of 440 HM individuals from 33 ethnolinguistic populations, including previously unreported She. We identified solid genetic differentiation between HM people and Han Chinese at 7.64‒15.86 years ago (kya) and split events between southern Chinese inland (Miao/Yao) and coastal (She) HM people in the middle Bronze Age period and the latter obtained more gene flow from Ancient Northern East Asians. Multiple admixture models further confirmed that extensive gene flow from surrounding ST, TK, and AN people entangled in forming the gene pool of Chinese coastal HM people. Genetic findings of isolated shared unique ancestral components based on the sharing alleles and haplotypes deconstructed that HM people from the Yungui Plateau carried the breadth of previously unknown genomic diversity. We identified a direct and recent genetic connection between Chinese inland and Southeast Asian HM people as they shared the most extended identity-by-descent fragments, supporting the long-distance migration hypothesis. Uniparental phylogenetic topology and network-based phylogenetic relationship reconstruction found ancient uniparental founding lineages in southwestern HM people. Finally, the population-specific biological adaptation study identified the shared and differentiated natural selection signatures among inland and coastal HM people associated with physical features and immune functions. The allele frequency spectrum of cancer susceptibility alleles and pharmacogenomic genes showed significant differences between HM and northern Chinese people. CONCLUSIONS Our extensive genetic evidence combined with the historical documents supported the view that ancient HM people originated from the Yungui regions associated with ancient "Three-Miao tribes" descended from the ancient Daxi-Qujialing-Shijiahe people. Then, some have recently migrated rapidly to Southeast Asia, and some have migrated eastward and mixed respectively with Southeast Asian indigenes, Liangzhu-related coastal ancient populations, and incoming southward ST people. Generally, complex population migration, admixture, and adaptation history contributed to the complicated patterns of population structure of geographically diverse HM people.
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- Guanglin He
- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610000, China.
- Anti-Drug Technology Center of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510230, China.
- Research Center for Genomic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China.
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- School of Medical Information, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400331, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- School of Forensic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Jinzhong, 030001, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637000, China
- Research Center for Genomic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Science & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- School of Sociology and Anthropology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637000, China
- Research Center for Genomic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- Department of Forensic Medicine, College of Basic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400331, China
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, College of Basic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400331, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637000, China
- Research Center for Genomic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, 650500, China
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, West China School of Basic Science & Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, 650500, China
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- School of Forensic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Jinzhong, 030001, China
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- School of Forensic Medicine, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, 650500, China
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- School of Ethnology and Anthropology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Inner Mongolia, 010028, China
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- Faculty of Forensic Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China.
- Anti-Drug Technology Center of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510230, China.
- Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Forensic Multi-Omics for Precision Identification, School of Forensic Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, China.
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- Institute of Rare Diseases, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
- Faculty of Forensic Medicine, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China.
- Anti-Drug Technology Center of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510230, China.
- Research Center for Genomic Medicine, North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China.
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Carlhoff S, Kutanan W, Rohrlach AB, Posth C, Stoneking M, Nägele K, Shoocongdej R, Krause J. Genomic portrait and relatedness patterns of the Iron Age Log Coffin culture in northwestern Thailand. Nat Commun 2023; 14:8527. [PMID: 38135688 PMCID: PMC10746721 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44328-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
Abstract
The Iron Age of highland Pang Mapha, northwestern Thailand, is characterised by a mortuary practice known as Log Coffin culture. Dating between 2300 and 1000 years ago, large coffins carved from individual teak trees have been discovered in over 40 caves and rock shelters. While previous studies focussed on the cultural development of the Log Coffin-associated sites, the origins of the practice, connections with other wooden coffin-using groups in Southeast Asia, and social structure within the region remain understudied. Here, we present genome-wide data from 33 individuals from five Log Coffin culture sites to study genetic ancestry profiles and genetic interconnectedness. The Log Coffin-associated genomes can be modelled as an admixture between Hòabìnhian hunter-gatherer-, Yangtze River farmer-, and Yellow River farmer-related ancestry. This indicates different influence spheres from Bronze and Iron Age individuals from northeastern Thailand as reflected by cultural practices. Our analyses also identify close genetic relationships within the sites and more distant connections between sites in the same and different river valleys. In combination with high mitochondrial haplogroup diversity and genome-wide homogeneity, the Log Coffin-associated groups from northwestern Thailand seem to have been a large, well-connected community, where genetic relatedness played a significant role in the mortuary ritual.
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- Selina Carlhoff
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, Villeurbanne, France
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
- The Prehistoric Population and Cultural Dynamics in Highland Pang Mapha Project, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
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Kusuma P, Cox MP, Barker G, Sudoyo H, Lansing JS, Jacobs GS. Deep ancestry of Bornean hunter-gatherers supports long-term local ancestry dynamics. Cell Rep 2023; 42:113346. [PMID: 37917587 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113346] [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: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
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Borneo was a crossroad of ancient dispersals, with some of the earliest Southeast Asian human remains and rock art. The island is home to traditionally hunter-gatherer Punan communities, whose origins, whether of subsistence reversion or long-term foraging, are unclear. The connection between its past and present-day agriculturalist inhabitants, who currently speak Austronesian languages and have composite and complex genetic ancestry, is equally opaque. Here, we analyze the genetic ancestry of the northeastern Bornean Punan Batu (who still practice some mobile hunting and gathering), Tubu, and Aput. We find deep ancestry connections, with a shared Asian signal outgrouping modern and ancient Austronesian-ancestry proxies, suggesting a time depth of more than 7,500 years. They also largely lack the mainland Southeast Asian signals of agricultural Borneans, who are themselves genetically heterogeneous. Our results support long-term inhabitation of Borneo by some Punan ancestors and reveal unexpected complexity in the origins and dispersal of Austronesian-expansion-related ancestry.
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- Pradiptajati Kusuma
- Division of Genome Diversity and Diseases, Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology, Banten, Indonesia.
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- Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; School of Natural Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Genome Diversity and Diseases, Mochtar Riady Institute for Nanotechnology, Banten, Indonesia
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- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA; Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Carlson JC, Krishnan M, Liu S, Anderson KJ, Zhang JZ, Yapp TAJ, Chiyka EA, Dikec DA, Cheng H, Naseri T, Reupena MS, Viali S, Deka R, Hawley NL, McGarvey ST, Weeks DE, Minster RL. Improving imputation quality in Samoans through the integration of population-specific sequences into existing reference panels. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2023:2023.10.31.23297835. [PMID: 37961708 PMCID: PMC10635250 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.31.23297835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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Genotype imputation is fundamental to association studies, and yet even gold standard panels like TOPMed are limited in the populations for which they yield good imputation. Specifically, Pacific Islanders are poorly represented in extant panels. To address this, we constructed an imputation reference panel using 1,285 Samoan individuals with whole-genome sequencing, combined with 1000 Genomes (1000G) samples, to create a reference panel that better represents Pacific Islander, specifically Samoan, genetic variation. We compared this panel to 1000G and TOPMed panels based on imputed variants using genotyping array data for 1,834 Samoan participants who were not part of the panels. The 1000G + 1285 Samoan panel yielded up to 2.25-2.76 times more well-imputed (r 2 ≥ 0.80) variants than TOPMed and 1000G. There was improved imputation accuracy across the minor allele frequency (MAF) spectrum, although it was more pronounced for variants with 0.01 ≤ MAF ≤ 0.05. Imputation accuracy (r 2 ) was greater for population-specific variants (high fixation index, F ST ) and those from larger haplotypes (high LD score). The gain in imputation accuracy over TOPMed was largest for small haplotypes (low LD score), reflecting the Samoan panel's ability to capture population-specific variation not well tagged by other panels. We also augmented the 1000G reference panel with varying numbers of Samoan samples and found that panels with 48 or more Samoans included outperformed TOPMed for all variants with MAF ≥ 0.001. This study identifies variants with improved imputation using population-specific reference panels and provides a framework for constructing other population-specific reference panels.
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Rathmann H, Perretti S, Porcu V, Hanihara T, Scott GR, Irish JD, Reyes-Centeno H, Ghirotto S, Harvati K. Inferring human neutral genetic variation from craniodental phenotypes. PNAS NEXUS 2023; 2:pgad217. [PMID: 37457893 PMCID: PMC10338903 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 06/14/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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There is a growing consensus that global patterns of modern human cranial and dental variation are shaped largely by neutral evolutionary processes, suggesting that craniodental features can be used as reliable proxies for inferring population structure and history in bioarchaeological, forensic, and paleoanthropological contexts. However, there is disagreement on whether certain types of data preserve a neutral signature to a greater degree than others. Here, we address this unresolved question and systematically test the relative neutrality of four standard metric and nonmetric craniodental data types employing an extensive computational genotype-phenotype comparison across modern populations from around the world. Our computation draws on the largest existing data sets currently available, while accounting for geographically structured environmental variation, population sampling uncertainty, disparate numbers of phenotypic variables, and stochastic variation inherent to a neutral model of evolution. Our results reveal that the four data types differentially capture neutral genomic variation, with highest signals preserved in dental nonmetric and cranial metric data, followed by cranial nonmetric and dental metric data. Importantly, we demonstrate that combining all four data types together maximizes the neutral genetic signal compared with using them separately, even with a limited number of phenotypic variables. We hypothesize that this reflects a lower level of genetic integration through pleiotropy between, compared to within, the four data types, effectively forming four different modules associated with relatively independent sets of loci. Therefore, we recommend that future craniodental investigations adopt holistic combined data approaches, allowing for more robust inferences about underlying neutral genetic variation.
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, Italy
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- Department of Anatomy, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara 252-0374, Japan
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA
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- Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
- The Centre for the Exploration of the Deep Human Journey, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg WITS 2050, South Africa
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
- William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40504, USA
- DFG Center for Advanced Studies ‘Words, Bones, Genes, Tools’, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72070, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, Italy
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Liu D, Ko AMS, Stoneking M. The genomic diversity of Taiwanese Austronesian groups: Implications for the "Into- and Out-of-Taiwan" models. PNAS NEXUS 2023; 2:pgad122. [PMID: 37200801 PMCID: PMC10187666 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2023] [Revised: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The origin and dispersal of the Austronesian language family, one of the largest and most widespread in the world, have long attracted the attention of linguists, archaeologists, and geneticists. Even though there is a growing consensus that Taiwan is the source of the spread of Austronesian languages, little is known about the migration patterns of the early Austronesians who settled in and left Taiwan, i.e. the "Into-Taiwan" and "out-of-Taiwan" events. In particular, the genetic diversity and structure within Taiwan and how this relates to the into-/out-of-Taiwan events are largely unexplored, primarily because most genomic studies have largely utilized data from just two of the 16 recognized Highland Austronesian groups in Taiwan. In this study, we generated the largest genome-wide data set of Taiwanese Austronesians to date, including six Highland groups and one Lowland group from across the island and two Taiwanese Han groups. We identified fine-scale genomic structure in Taiwan, inferred the ancestry profile of the ancestors of Austronesians, and found that the southern Taiwanese Austronesians show excess genetic affinities with the Austronesians outside of Taiwan. Our findings thus shed new light on the Into- and Out-of-Taiwan dispersals.
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- Dang Liu
- To whom correspondence should be addressed: ;
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Hermann A, Gutiérrez P, Chauvel C, Maury R, Liorzou C, Willie E, Phillip I, Forkel R, Rzymski C, Bedford S. Artifact geochemistry demonstrates long-distance voyaging in the Polynesian Outliers. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadf4487. [PMID: 37083531 PMCID: PMC10121159 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf4487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Although the peopling of Remote Oceania is well-documented as a general process of eastward migrations from Island Southeast Asia and Near Oceania toward the archipelagos of Remote Oceania, the origin and the development of Polynesian societies in the Western Pacific (Polynesian Outliers), far away from the Polynesian triangle, remain unclear. Here, we present a large-scale geochemical sourcing study of stone artifacts excavated from archeological sites in central Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and the Caroline Islands and provide unambiguous evidence of multiple long-distance voyages, with exotic stone materials being transported up to 2500 kilometers from their source. Our results emphasize high mobility in the Western Pacific during the last millennium CE and offer insights on the scale and timing of contacts between the Polynesian Outliers, their neighbors in the Western Pacific, and societies of Western Polynesia.
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- Aymeric Hermann
- UMR 8068 Temps, CNRS, F-92023 Nanterre, France
- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, MPI-EVA, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
- Corresponding author.
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- Université Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Université de Brest, UMR6538 Géosciences Océan, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, CNRS, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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- Université de Brest, UMR6538 Géosciences Océan, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, CNRS, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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- Vanuatu National Museum, Vanuatu Cultural Centre, P.O. Box 184, Port-Vila, Vanuatu
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- Vanuatu National Museum, Vanuatu Cultural Centre, P.O. Box 184, Port-Vila, Vanuatu
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- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, MPI-EVA, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, MPI-EVA, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, MPI-EVA, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
- Vanuatu National Museum, Vanuatu Cultural Centre, P.O. Box 184, Port-Vila, Vanuatu
- Department of Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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Wang H, Yang MA, Wangdue S, Lu H, Chen H, Li L, Dong G, Tsring T, Yuan H, He W, Ding M, Wu X, Li S, Tashi N, Yang T, Yang F, Tong Y, Chen Z, He Y, Cao P, Dai Q, Liu F, Feng X, Wang T, Yang R, Ping W, Zhang Z, Gao Y, Zhang M, Wang X, Zhang C, Yuan K, Ko AMS, Aldenderfer M, Gao X, Xu S, Fu Q. Human genetic history on the Tibetan Plateau in the past 5100 years. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadd5582. [PMID: 36930720 PMCID: PMC10022901 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add5582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Using genome-wide data of 89 ancient individuals dated to 5100 to 100 years before the present (B.P.) from 29 sites across the Tibetan Plateau, we found plateau-specific ancestry across plateau populations, with substantial genetic structure indicating high differentiation before 2500 B.P. Northeastern plateau populations rapidly showed admixture associated with millet farmers by 4700 B.P. in the Gonghe Basin. High genetic similarity on the southern and southwestern plateau showed population expansion along the Yarlung Tsangpo River since 3400 years ago. Central and southeastern plateau populations revealed extensive genetic admixture within the plateau historically, with substantial ancestry related to that found in southern and southwestern plateau populations. Over the past ~700 years, substantial gene flow from lowland East Asia further shaped the genetic landscape of present-day plateau populations. The high-altitude adaptive EPAS1 allele was found in plateau populations as early as in a 5100-year-old individual and showed a sharp increase over the past 2800 years.
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- Hongru Wang
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- School of Archaeology and Museology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- School of Archaeology and Museology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- School of Archaeology and Museology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- School of Archaeology and Museology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa 850000, China
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- School of Archaeology and Museology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
- Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Center for Evolutionary Biology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
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- Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Center for Evolutionary Biology, Collaborative Innovation Center of Genetics and Development, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Department of Liver Surgery and Transplantation, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
- Human Phenome Institute, Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai 201203, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, Shanghai 200232, China
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Resutik P, Aeschbacher S, Krützen M, Kratzer A, Haas C, Phillips C, Arora N. Comparative evaluation of the MAPlex, Precision ID Ancestry Panel, and VISAGE Basic Tool for biogeographical ancestry inference. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2023; 64:102850. [PMID: 36924679 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2023.102850] [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: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 02/27/2023]
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Biogeographical ancestry (BGA) inference from ancestry-informative markers (AIMs) has strong potential to support forensic investigations. Over the past two decades, several forensic panels composed of AIMs have been developed to predict ancestry at a continental scale. These panels typically comprise fewer than 200 AIMs and have been designed and tested with a limited set of populations. How well these panels recover patterns of genetic diversity relative to larger sets of markers, and how accurately they infer ancestry of individuals and populations not included in their design remains poorly understood. The lack of comparative studies addressing these aspects makes the selection of appropriate panels for forensic laboratories difficult. In this study, the model-based genetic clustering tool STRUCTURE was used to compare three popular forensic BGA panels: MAPlex, Precision ID Ancestry Panel (PIDAP), and VISAGE Basic Tool (VISAGE BT) relative to a genome-wide reference set of 10k SNPs. The genotypes for all these markers were obtained for a comprehensive set of 3957 individuals from 228 worldwide human populations. Our results indicate that at the broad continental scale (K=6) typically examined in forensic studies, all forensic panels produced similar genetic structure patterns compared to the reference set (G'≈90%) and had high classification performance across all regions (average AUC-PR > 97%). However, at K= 7 and K= 8, the forensic panels displayed some region-specific clustering deviations from the reference set, particularly in Europe and the region of East and South-East Asia, which may be attributed to differences in the design of the respective panels. Overall, the panel with the most consistent performance in all regions was VISAGE BT with an average weighted AUC̅W score of 96.26% across the three scales of geographical resolution investigated.
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- Peter Resutik
- Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Forensic Genetics Unit, Institute of Forensic Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Nearly 20 y ago, Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood reviewed the evidence for the associated spread of farming and large language families by the demographic expansions of farmers. Since then, advances in obtaining and analyzing genomic data from modern and ancient populations have transformed our knowledge of human dispersals during the Holocene. Here, we provide an overview of Holocene dispersals in the light of genomic evidence and conclude that they have a complex history. Even when there is a demonstrated connection between a demographic expansion of people, the spread of agriculture, and the spread of a particular language family, the outcome in the results of contact between expanding and resident groups is highly variable. Further research is needed to identify the factors and social circumstances that have influenced this variation and complex history.
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Xu Y, Wang N, Gao S, Li C, Ma P, Yang S, Jiang H, Shi S, Wu Y, Zhang Q, Cui Y. Solving the two-decades-old murder case through joint application of ZooMS and ancient DNA approaches. Int J Legal Med 2023; 137:319-327. [PMID: 36625884 PMCID: PMC9902420 DOI: 10.1007/s00414-022-02944-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Bones are one of the most common biological types of evidence in forensic cases. Discriminating human bones from irrelevant species is important for the identification of victims; however, the highly degraded bones could be undiagnostic morphologically and difficult to analyze with standard DNA profiling approaches. The same challenge also exists in archaeological studies. Here, we present an initial study of an analytical strategy that involves zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS) and ancient DNA methods. Through the combined strategy, we managed to identify the only biological evidence of a two-decades-old murder case - a small piece of human bone out of 19 bone fragments - and confirmed the kinship between the victim and the putative parents through joint application of next-generation sequencing (NGS) and Sanger sequencing methods. ZooMS effectively screened out the target human bone while ancient DNA methods improve the DNA yields. The combined strategy in this case outperforms the standard DNA profiling approach with shorter time, less cost, as well as higher reliability for the genetic identification results. HIGHLIGHTS: • The first application of zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry technique in the forensic case for screening out human bones from bone fragment mixtures. • Application of ancient DNA technique to recover the highly degraded DNA sequence from the challenging sample that failed standard DNA profiling approaches. • A fast, sensitive, and low-cost strategy that combines the strengths of protein analysis and DNA analysis for kinship identification in forensic research.
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- Yang Xu
- School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012 China
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021 China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012 China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012 China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012 China
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- Criminal Police Detachment, Qingdao Municipal Public Security Bureau, Qingdao, 266034 China
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- Criminal Investigation Team, Jimo Branch, Qingdao Municipal Public Security Bureau, Qingdao, 266205 China
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- Division of Clinical Research, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, 130021 China
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- Bioarchaeology Laboratory, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012 China ,School of Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012 China
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- School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China. .,Bioarchaeology Laboratory, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
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Cho EO, Cowgill LW, Middleton KM, Blomquist GE, Savoldi F, Tsoi J, Bornstein MM. The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphology. J Hum Evol 2022; 173:103268. [PMID: 36288639 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Revised: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Recent studies have shown that global variation in body proportions is more complex than previously thought as some traits formerly associated with climate adaptation are better explained by geographic proximity and neutral evolutionary forces. While the recent incorporation of quantitative genetic methodologies has improved understanding of patterns related to climate in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Asia remains underrepresented in recent and historic studies of body form. As ecogeographic studies tend to focus on male morphology, potential sex differences in features influenced by climate remain largely unexplored. Skeletal measurements encompassing the dimensions of the skull, pelvis, limbs, hands, and feet were collected from male (n = 459) and female (n = 442) remains curated in 13 collections across seven countries in East Asia (n = 901). Osteological data were analyzed with sex and minimum temperature as covariates adjusted by autosomal single-nucleotide polymorphism population genetic distance using univariate Bayesian linear mixed models, and credible intervals were calculated for each trait. Analysis supports a relationship between specific traits and climate as well as providing the magnitude of response in both sexes. After accounting for genetic distance between populations, greater association between climate and morphology was found in postcranial traits, with the relationship between climate and the skull limited primarily to breadth measurements. Larger body size is associated with colder climates with most measurements increasing with decreased temperature. The same traits were not always associated with climate for males and females nor correlated with the same intensity for both sexes. The varied directional association with climate for different regions of the skeleton and between the sexes underscores the necessity of future ecogeographic research to holistically evaluate body form and to look for sex-specific patterns to better understand population responses to environmental stresses.
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- Elizabeth O Cho
- Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA; Center for Anatomical Sciences, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Orthodontics, Division of Paediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong S.A.R., P.R. China
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- Dental Materials Science, Division of Applied Oral Sciences & Community Dental Care, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong S.A.R., P.R. China
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- Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Division of Applied Oral Sciences & Community Dental Care, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong S.A.R., P.R. China; Department of Oral Health and Medicine, University Center for Dental Medicine Basel UZB, University of Basel, Basel 4058, Switzerland
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Rodriguez JJRB, Cuales JMD, Herrera MJB, Zubiri LAM, Muallil RM, Ishmael AI, Jimenez EB, Stoneking M, De Ungria MCA. Ethical challenges in genetic research among Philippine Indigenous Peoples: Insights from fieldwork in Zamboanga and the Sulu Archipelago. Front Genet 2022; 13:901515. [DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.901515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Philippines, with the recent discovery of an archaic hominin in Luzon and an extensive ethnolinguistic diversity of more than 100 Indigenous peoples, is crucial to understanding human evolution and population history in Island Southeast Asia. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies enable the rapid generation of genomic data to robustly address questions about origins, relatedness, and population movements. With the increased genetic sampling in the country, especially by international scientists, it is vital to revisit ethical rules and guidelines relevant to conducting research among Indigenous peoples. Our team led fieldwork expeditions between 2019 and February 2020 in Zamboanga and the Sulu Archipelago, a chain of islands connecting the Mindanao and Borneo landmasses. The trips concluded with a collection of 2,149 DNA samples from 104 field sites. We present our fieldwork experience among the mostly sea-oriented Sama-Bajaw and Tausug-speaking communities and propose recommendations to address the ethical challenges of conducting such research. This work contributes toward building an enabling research environment in the Philippines that respects the rights and autonomy of Indigenous peoples, who are the rightful owners of their DNA and all genetic information contained therein.
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Chen H, Lin R, Lu Y, Zhang R, Gao Y, He Y, Xu S. Tracing Bai-Yue Ancestry in Aboriginal Li People on Hainan Island. Mol Biol Evol 2022; 39:6731089. [PMID: 36173765 PMCID: PMC9585476 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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As the most prevalent aboriginal group on Hainan Island located between South China and the mainland of Southeast Asia, the Li people are believed to preserve some unique genetic information due to their isolated circumstances, although this has been largely uninvestigated. We performed the first whole-genome sequencing of 55 Hainan Li (HNL) individuals with high coverage (∼30-50×) to gain insight into their genetic history and potential adaptations. We identified the ancestry enriched in HNL (∼85%) is well preserved in present-day Tai-Kadai speakers residing in South China and North Vietnam, that is, Bai-Yue populations. A lack of admixture signature due to the geographical restriction exacerbated the bottleneck in the present-day HNL. The genetic divergence among Bai-Yue populations began ∼4,000-3,000 years ago when the proto-HNL underwent migration and the settling of Hainan Island. Finally, we identified signatures of positive selection in the HNL, some outstanding examples included FADS1 and FADS2 related to a diet rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. In addition, we observed that malaria-driven selection had occurred in the HNL, with population-specific variants of malaria-related genes (e.g., CR1) present. Interestingly, HNL harbors a high prevalence of malaria leveraged gene variants related to hematopoietic function (e.g., CD3G) that may explain the high incidence of blood disorders such as B-cell lymphomas in the present-day HNL. The results have advanced our understanding of the genetic history of the Bai-Yue populations and have provided new insights into the adaptive scenarios of the Li people.
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Center for Evolutionary Biology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China,Human Phenome Institute, Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai 201203, China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Human Phenome Institute, Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, Fudan University, Shanghai 201203, China
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Gellis JJ, Foley RA. Patterns of variation in canal and root number in human post-canine teeth. J Anat 2022; 241:896-918. [PMID: 36082500 PMCID: PMC9482695 DOI: 10.1111/joa.13729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2020] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Descriptive morphology of tooth roots traditionally focuses on number of canals and roots. However, how or if canal and root number are related is poorly understood. While it is often assumed that canal number is concomitant with root number and morphology, in practice canal number and morphology do not always covary with external root features. To investigate the relationship between canal and root number, fully developed, adult post‐canine teeth were examined and quantified from computerized tomography scans from a global sample of 945 modern humans. We tested the hypotheses that root and canal number do not follow a 1:1 ratio, that canal to root ratios differ between teeth, and that canal to root ratios differ across major human geographical groups. Results indicate that not only is root number dependent on canal number, but that this relationship becomes more variable as canal number increases, varies between individual teeth and by major geographical group, and changes as these groups increase in geographical distance from Sub‐Saharan Africa. These results show that the ratio of canal number to root number is an important indicator of variation in dental phenotypes.
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- Jason J Gellis
- University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge, UK
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- University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge, UK
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Arauna LR, Bergstedt J, Choin J, Mendoza-Revilla J, Harmant C, Roux M, Mas-Sandoval A, Lémée L, Colleran H, François A, Valentin F, Cassar O, Gessain A, Quintana-Murci L, Patin E. The genomic landscape of contemporary western Remote Oceanians. Curr Biol 2022; 32:4565-4575.e6. [PMID: 36108636 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2022] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The Vanuatu archipelago served as a gateway to Remote Oceania during one of the most extensive human migrations to uninhabited lands ∼3,000 years ago. Ancient DNA studies suggest an initial settlement by East Asian-related peoples that was quickly followed by the arrival of Papuan-related populations, leading to a major population turnover. Yet there is uncertainty over the population processes and the sociocultural factors that have shaped the genomic diversity of ni-Vanuatu, who present nowadays among the world's highest linguistic and cultural diversity. Here, we report new genome-wide data for 1,433 contemporary ni-Vanuatu from 29 different islands, including 287 couples. We find that ni-Vanuatu derive their East Asian- and Papuan-related ancestry from the same source populations and descend from relatively synchronous, sex-biased admixture events that occurred ∼1,700-2,300 years ago, indicating a peopling history common to the whole archipelago. However, East Asian-related ancestry proportions differ markedly across islands, suggesting that the Papuan-related population turnover was geographically uneven. Furthermore, we detect Polynesian ancestry arriving ∼600-1,000 years ago to Central and South Vanuatu in both Polynesian-speaking and non-Polynesian-speaking populations. Last, we provide evidence for a tendency of spouses to carry similar genetic ancestry, when accounting for relatedness avoidance. The signal is not driven by strong genetic effects of specific loci or trait-associated variants, suggesting that it results instead from social assortative mating. Altogether, our findings provide an insight into both the genetic history of ni-Vanuatu populations and how sociocultural processes have shaped the diversity of their genomes.
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- Lara R Arauna
- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR2000, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Paris 75015, France.
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR2000, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Paris 75015, France; Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden; Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR2000, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Paris 75015, France; Chair Human Genomics and Evolution, Collège de France, Paris 75005, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR2000, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Paris 75015, France; Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR2000, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Paris 75015, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR2000, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Paris 75015, France; Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris 75015, France
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
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- Institut Pasteur, Biomics Platform, Paris 75015, France
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- BirthRites Independent Max Planck Research Group, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Langues, Textes, Traitements Informatiques, Cognition (LaTTiCe), UMR 8094, CNRS, Paris 75015, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3569, Oncogenic Virus Epidemiology and Pathophysiology Unit, Paris 75015, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3569, Oncogenic Virus Epidemiology and Pathophysiology Unit, Paris 75015, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR2000, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Paris 75015, France; Chair Human Genomics and Evolution, Collège de France, Paris 75005, France.
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR2000, Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Paris 75015, France.
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Parikh VN, Ioannidis AG, Jimenez-Morales D, Gorzynski JE, De Jong HN, Liu X, Roque J, Cepeda-Espinoza VP, Osoegawa K, Hughes C, Sutton SC, Youlton N, Joshi R, Amar D, Tanigawa Y, Russo D, Wong J, Lauzon JT, Edelson J, Mas Montserrat D, Kwon Y, Rubinacci S, Delaneau O, Cappello L, Kim J, Shoura MJ, Raja AN, Watson N, Hammond N, Spiteri E, Mallempati KC, Montero-Martín G, Christle J, Kim J, Kirillova A, Seo K, Huang Y, Zhao C, Moreno-Grau S, Hershman SG, Dalton KP, Zhen J, Kamm J, Bhatt KD, Isakova A, Morri M, Ranganath T, Blish CA, Rogers AJ, Nadeau K, Yang S, Blomkalns A, O’Hara R, Neff NF, DeBoever C, Szalma S, Wheeler MT, Gates CM, Farh K, Schroth GP, Febbo P, deSouza F, Cornejo OE, Fernandez-Vina M, Kistler A, Palacios JA, Pinsky BA, Bustamante CD, Rivas MA, Ashley EA. Deconvoluting complex correlates of COVID-19 severity with a multi-omic pandemic tracking strategy. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5107. [PMID: 36042219 PMCID: PMC9426371 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32397-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 07/28/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has differentially impacted populations across race and ethnicity. A multi-omic approach represents a powerful tool to examine risk across multi-ancestry genomes. We leverage a pandemic tracking strategy in which we sequence viral and host genomes and transcriptomes from nasopharyngeal swabs of 1049 individuals (736 SARS-CoV-2 positive and 313 SARS-CoV-2 negative) and integrate them with digital phenotypes from electronic health records from a diverse catchment area in Northern California. Genome-wide association disaggregated by admixture mapping reveals novel COVID-19-severity-associated regions containing previously reported markers of neurologic, pulmonary and viral disease susceptibility. Phylodynamic tracking of consensus viral genomes reveals no association with disease severity or inferred ancestry. Summary data from multiomic investigation reveals metagenomic and HLA associations with severe COVID-19. The wealth of data available from residual nasopharyngeal swabs in combination with clinical data abstracted automatically at scale highlights a powerful strategy for pandemic tracking, and reveals distinct epidemiologic, genetic, and biological associations for those at the highest risk.
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- Victoria N. Parikh
- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.490568.60000 0004 5997 482XHistocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory, Stanford Blood Center, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.9851.50000 0001 2165 4204Department of Computational Biology and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- grid.9851.50000 0001 2165 4204Department of Computational Biology and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.5386.8000000041936877XDepartment of Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.490568.60000 0004 5997 482XHistocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory, Stanford Blood Center, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, USA
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- grid.490568.60000 0004 5997 482XHistocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory, Stanford Blood Center, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.499295.a0000 0004 9234 0175Chan Zuckerburg Biohub, San Francisco, CA USA
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- grid.499295.a0000 0004 9234 0175Chan Zuckerburg Biohub, San Francisco, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.499295.a0000 0004 9234 0175Chan Zuckerburg Biohub, San Francisco, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.499295.a0000 0004 9234 0175Chan Zuckerburg Biohub, San Francisco, CA USA
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- Takeda Development Center, Americas, Inc, San Diego, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.185669.50000 0004 0507 3954Illumina, Inc, San Diego, CA USA
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- grid.185669.50000 0004 0507 3954Illumina, Inc, San Diego, CA USA
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- grid.185669.50000 0004 0507 3954Illumina, Inc, San Diego, CA USA
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- grid.185669.50000 0004 0507 3954Illumina, Inc, San Diego, CA USA
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- grid.30064.310000 0001 2157 6568School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA USA
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- grid.490568.60000 0004 5997 482XHistocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory, Stanford Blood Center, Stanford Health Care, Stanford, USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.499295.a0000 0004 9234 0175Chan Zuckerburg Biohub, San Francisco, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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Buikstra JE, DeWitte SN, Agarwal SC, Baker BJ, Bartelink EJ, Berger E, Blevins KE, Bolhofner K, Boutin AT, Brickley MB, Buzon MR, de la Cova C, Goldstein L, Gowland R, Grauer AL, Gregoricka LA, Halcrow SE, Hall SA, Hillson S, Kakaliouras AM, Klaus HD, Knudson KJ, Knüsel CJ, Larsen CS, Martin DL, Milner GR, Novak M, Nystrom KC, Pacheco-Forés SI, Prowse TL, Robbins Schug G, Roberts CA, Rothwell JE, Santos AL, Stojanowski C, Stone AC, Stull KE, Temple DH, Torres CM, Toyne JM, Tung TA, Ullinger J, Wiltschke-Schrotta K, Zakrzewski SR. Twenty-first century bioarchaeology: Taking stock and moving forward. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2022; 178 Suppl 74:54-114. [PMID: 36790761 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled "Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward," which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6-8, 2020. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the School of Human Evolution and Social Change (ASU), and the Center for Bioarchaeological Research (CBR, ASU), the Workshop's overall goal was to explore reasons why research proposals submitted by bioarchaeologists, both graduate students and established scholars, fared disproportionately poorly within recent NSF Anthropology Program competitions and to offer advice for increasing success. Therefore, this Workshop comprised 43 international scholars and four advanced graduate students with a history of successful grant acquisition, primarily from the United States. Ultimately, we focused on two related aims: (1) best practices for improving research designs and training and (2) evaluating topics of contemporary significance that reverberate through history and beyond as promising trajectories for bioarchaeological research. Among the former were contextual grounding, research question/hypothesis generation, statistical procedures appropriate for small samples and mixed qualitative/quantitative data, the salience of Bayesian methods, and training program content. Topical foci included ethics, social inequality, identity (including intersectionality), climate change, migration, violence, epidemic disease, adaptability/plasticity, the osteological paradox, and the developmental origins of health and disease. Given the profound changes required globally to address decolonization in the 21st century, this concern also entered many formal and informal discussions.
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- Jane E Buikstra
- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, California State University, Chico, California, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, California, USA
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- School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA
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- Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, Whittier College, Whittier, California, USA
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- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Préhistoire à l'Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie, University of Bordeaux, CNRS, MC, PACEA, UMR5199, F-33615, Pessac, France
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Center for Applied Bioanthropology, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Environmental Health Program, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Center for Bioarchaeological Research, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA
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- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies, University of California, Merced, USA, and Instituto de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Bioanthropology Research Institute, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
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Deng Z, Kuo SC, Carson MT, Hung HC. Early Austronesians Cultivated Rice and Millet Together: Tracing Taiwan's First Neolithic Crops. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:962073. [PMID: 35937368 PMCID: PMC9355678 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.962073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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This study presents the first directly dated physical evidence of crop remains from the Early Neolithic archaeological layers in Taiwan. Systematic sampling and analysis of macro-plant remains suggested that Neolithic farmers at the Zhiwuyuan (Botanical Garden) site in Taipei, northern Taiwan, had cultivated rice and foxtail millet together at least 4,500 years ago. A more comprehensive review of all related radiocarbon dates suggests that agriculture emerged in Taiwan around 4,800-4,600 cal. BP, instead of the previous claim of 5,000 cal. BP. According to the rice grain metrics from three study sites of Zhiwuyuan, Dalongdong, and Anhe, the rice cultivated in northern and western-central Taiwan was mainly a short-grained type of the japonica subspecies, similar to the discoveries from the southeast coast of mainland China and the middle Yangtze valley. These new findings support the hypothesis that the southeast coast of mainland China was the origin of proto-Austronesian people who brought their crops and other cultural traditions across the Taiwan Strait 4,800 years ago and eventually farther into Island Southeast Asia.
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- Zhenhua Deng
- Center for the Study of Chinese Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing, China
- School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Archaeology and Natural History, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Liu YC, Hunter-Anderson R, Cheronet O, Eakin J, Camacho F, Pietrusewsky M, Rohland N, Ioannidis A, Athens JS, Douglas MT, Ikehara-Quebral RM, Bernardos R, Culleton BJ, Mah M, Adamski N, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Callan K, Lawson AM, Mandl K, Michel M, Oppenheimer J, Stewardson K, Zalzala F, Kidd K, Kidd J, Schurr TG, Auckland K, Hill AVS, Mentzer AJ, Quinto-Cortés CD, Robson K, Kennett DJ, Patterson N, Bustamante CD, Moreno-Estrada A, Spriggs M, Vilar M, Lipson M, Pinhasi R, Reich D. Ancient DNA reveals five streams of migration into Micronesia and matrilocality in early Pacific seafarers. Science 2022; 377:72-79. [PMID: 35771911 PMCID: PMC9983687 DOI: 10.1126/science.abm6536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Micronesia began to be peopled earlier than other parts of Remote Oceania, but the origins of its inhabitants remain unclear. We generated genome-wide data from 164 ancient and 112 modern individuals. Analysis reveals five migratory streams into Micronesia. Three are East Asian related, one is Polynesian, and a fifth is a Papuan source related to mainland New Guineans that is different from the New Britain-related Papuan source for southwest Pacific populations but is similarly derived from male migrants ~2500 to 2000 years ago. People of the Mariana Archipelago may derive all of their precolonial ancestry from East Asian sources, making them the only Remote Oceanians without Papuan ancestry. Female-inherited mitochondrial DNA was highly differentiated across early Remote Oceanian communities but homogeneous within, implying matrilocal practices whereby women almost never raised their children in communities different from the ones in which they grew up.
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- Yue-Chen Liu
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Independent Researcher, Albuquerque, NM 87107, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Guam, Mangilao 96923, Guam
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.,Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., Honolulu, HI 96826, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Institutes of Energy and the Environment, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK,The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK,Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO), Unit of Advanced Genomics, CINVESTAV, Irapuato 36821, Mexico
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- MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.,Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG), Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA,Current Address: Galatea Bio, Inc. 975 W 22nd St. Hialeah, FL 33010, USA
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO), Unit of Advanced Genomics, CINVESTAV, Irapuato 36821, Mexico
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- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia,Vanuatu National Museum, Vanuatu Culture Centre, P.O. Box 184, Port Vila, Vanuatu
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria,Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA,Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA,Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Huang X, Xia ZY, Bin X, He G, Guo J, Adnan A, Yin L, Huang Y, Zhao J, Yang Y, Ma F, Li Y, Hu R, Yang T, Wei LH, Wang CC. Genomic Insights Into the Demographic History of the Southern Chinese. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.853391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Southern China is the birthplace of rice-cultivating agriculture and different language families and has also witnessed various human migrations that facilitated cultural diffusions. The fine-scale demographic history in situ that forms present-day local populations, however, remains unclear. To comprehensively cover the genetic diversity in East and Southeast Asia, we generated genome-wide SNP data from 211 present-day Southern Chinese and co-analyzed them with ∼1,200 ancient and modern genomes. In Southern China, language classification is significantly associated with genetic variation but with a different extent of predictability, and there is strong evidence for recent shared genetic history particularly in Hmong–Mien and Austronesian speakers. A geography-related genetic sub-structure that represents the major genetic variation in Southern East Asians is established pre-Holocene and its extremes are represented by Neolithic Fujianese and First Farmers in Mainland Southeast Asia. This sub-structure is largely reduced by admixture in ancient Southern Chinese since > ∼2,000 BP, which forms a “Southern Chinese Cluster” with a high level of genetic homogeneity. Further admixture characterizes the demographic history of the majority of Hmong–Mien speakers and some Kra-Dai speakers in Southwest China happened ∼1,500–1,000 BP, coeval to the reigns of local chiefdoms. In Yellow River Basin, we identify a connection of local populations to genetic sub-structure in Southern China with geographical correspondence appearing > ∼9,000 BP, while the gene flow likely closely related to “Southern Chinese Cluster” since the Longshan period (∼5,000–4,000 BP) forms ancestry profile of Han Chinese Cline.
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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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Zhao L, Nielsen R, Korneliussen TS. distAngsd: Fast and accurate inference of genetic distances for Next Generation Sequencing data. Mol Biol Evol 2022; 39:6596627. [PMID: 35647675 PMCID: PMC9234764 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Commonly used methods for inferring phylogenies were designed before the emergence of high throughput sequencing and can generally not accommodate the challenges associated with noisy, diploid sequencing data. In many applications, diploid genomes are still treated as haploid through the use of ambiguity characters; while the uncertainty in genotype calling - arising as a consequence of the sequencing technology - is ignored. In order to address this problem we describe two new probabilistic approaches for estimating genetic distances: distAngsd-geno and distAngsd-nuc, both implemented in a software suite named distAngsd. These methods are specifically designed for next generation sequencing data, utilize the full information from the data, and take uncertainty in genotype calling into account. Through extensive simulations, we show that these new methods are markedly more accurate and have more stable statistical behaviors than other currently available methods for estimating genetic distances - even for very low depth data with high error rates.
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- Lei Zhao
- Section for Geogenetics, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Kobenhavn K
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- Section for Geogenetics, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Kobenhavn K.,Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics 3040 Valley Life Sciences Building 3140 Berkeley, CA 94720-3140
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- Section for Geogenetics, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Oster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Kobenhavn K
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Shaw B, Hawkins S, Becerra-Valdivia L, Turney CSM, Coxe S, Kewibu V, Haro J, Miamba K, Leclerc M, Spriggs M, Privat K, Haberle S, Hopf F, Hull E, Pengilley A, Brown S, Marjo CE, Jacobsen G. Frontier Lapita interaction with resident Papuan populations set the stage for initial peopling of the Pacific. Nat Ecol Evol 2022; 6:802-812. [PMID: 35449459 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01735-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The initial peopling of the remote Pacific islands was one of the greatest migrations in human history, beginning three millennia ago by Lapita cultural groups. The spread of Lapita out of an ancestral Asian homeland is a dominant narrative in the origins of Pacific peoples, and although Island New Guinea has long been recognized as a springboard for the peopling of Oceania, the role of Indigenous populations in this remarkable phase of exploration remains largely untested. Here, we report the earliest evidence for Lapita-introduced animals, turtle bone technology and repeated obsidian import in southern New Guinea 3,480-3,060 years ago, synchronous with the establishment of the earliest known Lapita settlements 700 km away. Our findings precede sustained Lapita migrations and pottery introductions by several centuries, occur alongside Indigenous technologies and suggest continued multicultural influences on population diversity despite language replacement. Our work shows that initial Lapita expansion throughout Island New Guinea was more expansive than previously considered, with Indigenous contact influencing migration pathways and island-hopping strategies that culminated in rapid and purposeful Pacific-wide settlement. Later Lapita dispersals through New Guinea were facilitated by earlier contact with Indigenous populations and profoundly influenced the region as a global centre of cultural and linguistic diversity.
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- Ben Shaw
- Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. .,School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. .,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. .,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. .,School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
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- School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Chronos 14Carbon Cycle Facility, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Chronos 14Carbon Cycle Facility, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Division of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.,Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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- National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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- National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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- School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.,School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.,Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila, Vanuatu
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- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Electron Microscope Unit, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.,School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.,School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Institute for Scientific Archaeology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
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- Chronos 14Carbon Cycle Facility, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Centre for Accelerator Science, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Palencia-Madrid L, Baeta M, Kleinbielen T, Toro-Delgado N, Villaescusa P, Sanchez-Bustamante E, de Pancorbo MM, Luis JR, Ware KE, Somarelli JA, Garcia-Bertrand R, Herrera RJ. Post-Austronesian migrational wave of West Polynesians to Micronesia. Gene 2022; 823:146357. [PMID: 35189246 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This study examines Y-chromosome and mtDNA markers in the population of the island of Kiritimati in the context of geographically targeted reference populations from the Pacific. Kiritimati derives its population from the atoll islands of the Gilbert Archipelago and representsa geographicaltransitional region between Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia that likely played a critical role during theAustronesian expansion. The large presence(84.1%)of individuals withO-M175, O2a-M324 and O2a2b-P164 sub-haplogroups, 69.9% being O2a2b-P164, the Y-STR homogeneity within O2a2b-P164 and the very recent age of the sub-haplogroup(363-548 years ago)inKiritimati suggestthe arrival ofa genetically homogenous population to the Gilberteses followed by a population expassion.The close Y-STR haplotype affinities with profiles from the Samoa and Tonga Archipelagos point to an unprecedented massive post-Austronesian expansionexodus from West Polynesia.Contrasting the abundance of AustronesianO2a2b-P164 sub-haplogroup, the most abundantMelanesian/Papuansub-haplogroup,C-M130is present at a frequency of 13.5%. Thenetwork topology suggests that C-M130 arrived to theKiribati Archipelago from West Polynesia, specifically from West Samoa, Tonga and/or Tutuila subsequent to the Austronesian expansion about 832-1408 years ago. The haplotype affinities withinO2a2b-P164 argue for anoriginal source in Taiwan and its dispersal to West Polynesia and then to Southeast Micronesia. The present investigation provides an understanding of the genetic composition and complex migration history of an understudied region of the Pacific and provides evidence for recent dispersals towards Micronesia from West Polynesia subsequent to the initial Austronesian expansion.
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- Leire Palencia-Madrid
- BIOMICs Research Group, Dpto. Z. y Biologia Celular A., Lascaray Research Centre, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- BIOMICs Research Group, Dpto. Z. y Biologia Celular A., Lascaray Research Centre, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- BIOMICs Research Group, Dpto. Z. y Biologia Celular A., Lascaray Research Centre, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- BIOMICs Research Group, Dpto. Z. y Biologia Celular A., Lascaray Research Centre, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- BIOMICs Research Group, Dpto. Z. y Biologia Celular A., Lascaray Research Centre, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- BIOMICs Research Group, Dpto. Z. y Biologia Celular A., Lascaray Research Centre, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- BIOMICs Research Group, Dpto. Z. y Biologia Celular A., Lascaray Research Centre, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Area de Antropología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Sur s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, USA.
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Wohns AW, Wong Y, Jeffery B, Akbari A, Mallick S, Pinhasi R, Patterson N, Reich D, Kelleher J, McVean G. A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes. Science 2022; 375:eabi8264. [PMID: 35201891 PMCID: PMC10027547 DOI: 10.1126/science.abi8264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The sequencing of modern and ancient genomes from around the world has revolutionized our understanding of human history and evolution. However, the problem of how best to characterize ancestral relationships from the totality of human genomic variation remains unsolved. Here, we address this challenge with nonparametric methods that enable us to infer a unified genealogy of modern and ancient humans. This compact representation of multiple datasets explores the challenges of missing and erroneous data and uses ancient samples to constrain and date relationships. We demonstrate the power of the method to recover relationships between individuals and populations as well as to identify descendants of ancient samples. Finally, we introduce a simple nonparametric estimator of the geographical location of ancestors that recapitulates key events in human history.
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- Anthony Wilder Wohns
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford; Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
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- Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford; Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
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- Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford; Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna; 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford; Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
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- Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford; Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
- Corresponding author.
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Changmai P, Jaisamut K, Kampuansai J, Kutanan W, Altınışık NE, Flegontova O, Inta A, Yüncü E, Boonthai W, Pamjav H, Reich D, Flegontov P. Indian genetic heritage in Southeast Asian populations. PLoS Genet 2022; 18:e1010036. [PMID: 35176016 PMCID: PMC8853555 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The great ethnolinguistic diversity found today in mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) reflects multiple migration waves of people in the past. Maritime trading between MSEA and India was established at the latest 300 BCE, and the formation of early states in Southeast Asia during the first millennium CE was strongly influenced by Indian culture, a cultural influence that is still prominent today. Several ancient Indian-influenced states were located in present-day Thailand, and various populations in the country are likely to be descendants of people from those states. To systematically explore Indian genetic heritage in MSEA populations, we generated genome-wide SNP data (using the Affymetrix Human Origins array) for 119 present-day individuals belonging to 10 ethnic groups from Thailand and co-analyzed them with published data using PCA, ADMIXTURE, and methods relying on f-statistics and on autosomal haplotypes. We found low levels of South Asian admixture in various MSEA populations for whom there is evidence of historical connections with the ancient Indian-influenced states but failed to find this genetic component in present-day hunter-gatherer groups and relatively isolated groups from the highlands of Northern Thailand. The results suggest that migration of Indian populations to MSEA may have been responsible for the spread of Indian culture in the region. Our results also support close genetic affinity between Kra-Dai-speaking (also known as Tai-Kadai) and Austronesian-speaking populations, which fits a linguistic hypothesis suggesting cladality of the two language families.
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- Piya Changmai
- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Research Center in Bioresources for Agriculture, Industry and Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Research Center in Bioresources for Agriculture, Industry and Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Research Unit in Physical Anthropology and Health Science, Thammasat University, Pathum thani, Thailand
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- Hungarian Institute for Forensic Sciences, Institute of Forensic Genetics, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Kalmyk Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Elista, Kalmykia, Russia
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Deng L, Pan Y, Wang Y, Chen H, Yuan K, Chen S, Lu D, Lu Y, Mokhtar SS, Rahman TA, Hoh BP, Xu S. Genetic connections and convergent evolution of tropical indigenous peoples in Asia. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 39:6481554. [PMID: 34940850 PMCID: PMC8826522 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Tropical indigenous peoples in Asia (TIA) attract much attention for their unique appearance, whereas their genetic history and adaptive evolution remain mysteries. We conducted a comprehensive study to characterize the genetic distinction and connection of broad geographical TIAs. Despite the diverse genetic makeup and large interarea genetic differentiation between the TIA groups, we identified a basal Asian ancestry (bASN) specifically shared by these populations. The bASN ancestry was relatively enriched in ancient Asian human genomes dated as early as ∼50,000 years before the present and diminished in more recent history. Notably, the bASN ancestry is unlikely to be derived from archaic hominins. Instead, we suggest it may be better modeled as a survived lineage of the initial peopling of Asia. Shared adaptations inherited from the ancient Asian ancestry were detected among the TIA groups (e.g., LIMS1 for hair morphology, and COL24A1 for bone formation), and they are enriched in neurological functions either at an identical locus (e.g., NKAIN3), or different loci in an identical gene (e.g., TENM4). The bASN ancestry could also have formed the substrate of the genetic architecture of the dark pigmentation observed in the TIA peoples. We hypothesize that phenotypic convergence of the dark pigmentation in TIAs could have resulted from parallel (e.g., DDB1/DAK) or genetic convergence driven by admixture (e.g., MTHFD1 and RAD18), new mutations (e.g., STK11), or notably purifying selection (e.g., MC1R). Our results provide new insights into the initial peopling of Asia and an advanced understanding of the phenotypic convergence of the TIA peoples.
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- Lian Deng
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Center for Evolutionary Biology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Department of Liver Surgery and Transplantation Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Human Phenome Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Center for Evolutionary Biology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Institute of Medical Molecular Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Clinical Pathology Diagnostic Centre Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, 47000 Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UCSI University, Jalan Menara Gading, UCSI Heights 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Center for Evolutionary Biology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
- Department of Liver Surgery and Transplantation Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Human Phenome Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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Chiang CWK. The Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating Population Histories Into Genetic Studies for Diverse Populations: A Motivating Example From Native Hawaiians. Front Genet 2021; 12:643883. [PMID: 34646295 PMCID: PMC8503554 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.643883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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There is a well-recognized need to include diverse populations in genetic studies, but several obstacles continue to be prohibitive, including (but are not limited to) the difficulty of recruiting individuals from diverse populations in large numbers and the lack of representation in available genomic references. These obstacles notwithstanding, studying multiple diverse populations would provide informative, population-specific insights. Using Native Hawaiians as an example of an understudied population with a unique evolutionary history, I will argue that by developing key genomic resources and integrating evolutionary thinking into genetic epidemiology, we will have the opportunity to efficiently advance our knowledge of the genetic risk factors, ameliorate health disparity, and improve healthcare in this underserved population.
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- Charleston W K Chiang
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.,Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Ongaro L, Molinaro L, Flores R, Marnetto D, Capodiferro MR, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, Moreno-Estrada A, Mabunda N, Ventura M, Tambets K, Achilli A, Capelli C, Metspalu M, Pagani L, Montinaro F. Evaluating the Impact of Sex-Biased Genetic Admixture in the Americas through the Analysis of Haplotype Data. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12101580. [PMID: 34680976 PMCID: PMC8535939 DOI: 10.3390/genes12101580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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A general imbalance in the proportion of disembarked males and females in the Americas has been documented during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Colonial Era and, although less prominent, more recently. This imbalance may have left a signature on the genomes of modern-day populations characterised by high levels of admixture. The analysis of the uniparental systems and the evaluation of continental proportion ratio of autosomal and X chromosomes revealed a general sex imbalance towards males for European and females for African and Indigenous American ancestries. However, the consistency and degree of this imbalance are variable, suggesting that other factors, such as cultural and social practices, may have played a role in shaping it. Moreover, very few investigations have evaluated the sex imbalance using haplotype data, containing more critical information than genotypes. Here, we analysed genome-wide data for more than 5000 admixed American individuals to assess the presence, direction and magnitude of sex-biased admixture in the Americas. For this purpose, we applied two haplotype-based approaches, ELAI and NNLS, and we compared them with a genotype-based method, ADMIXTURE. In doing so, besides a general agreement between methods, we unravelled that the post-colonial admixture dynamics show higher complexity than previously described.
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- Linda Ongaro
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia; (L.M.); (R.F.); (D.M.); (K.T.); (M.M.); (L.P.); (F.M.)
- Correspondence:
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia; (L.M.); (R.F.); (D.M.); (K.T.); (M.M.); (L.P.); (F.M.)
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia; (L.M.); (R.F.); (D.M.); (K.T.); (M.M.); (L.P.); (F.M.)
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia; (L.M.); (R.F.); (D.M.); (K.T.); (M.M.); (L.P.); (F.M.)
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “L. Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy; (M.R.C.); (A.A.)
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- Department of Medical Genomics, GENYO, Centro Pfizer—Universidad de Granada—Junta de Andalucía de Genómica e Investigación Oncológica, Av de la Ilustración 114, Parque Tecnológico de la Salud (PTS), 18016 Granada, Spain;
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36821, Mexico;
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- Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Distrito de Marracuene, Estrada Nacional N°1, Província de Maputo, Maputo 1120, Mozambique;
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- Department of Biology-Genetics, University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy;
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia; (L.M.); (R.F.); (D.M.); (K.T.); (M.M.); (L.P.); (F.M.)
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “L. Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy; (M.R.C.); (A.A.)
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK;
- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia; (L.M.); (R.F.); (D.M.); (K.T.); (M.M.); (L.P.); (F.M.)
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia; (L.M.); (R.F.); (D.M.); (K.T.); (M.M.); (L.P.); (F.M.)
- Department of Biology, University of Padua, 35131 Padua, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia; (L.M.); (R.F.); (D.M.); (K.T.); (M.M.); (L.P.); (F.M.)
- Department of Biology-Genetics, University of Bari, 70126 Bari, Italy;
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Crabtree SA, White DA, Bradshaw CJA, Saltré F, Williams AN, Beaman RJ, Bird MI, Ulm S. Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul. Nat Hum Behav 2021; 5:1303-1313. [PMID: 33927367 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01106-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Archaeological data and demographic modelling suggest that the peopling of Sahul required substantial populations, occurred rapidly within a few thousand years and encompassed environments ranging from hyper-arid deserts to temperate uplands and tropical rainforests. How this migration occurred and how humans responded to the physical environments they encountered have, however, remained largely speculative. By constructing a high-resolution digital elevation model for Sahul and coupling it with fine-scale viewshed analysis of landscape prominence, least-cost pedestrian travel modelling and high-performance computing, we create over 125 billion potential migratory pathways, whereby the most parsimonious routes traversed emerge. Our analysis revealed several major pathways-superhighways-transecting the continent, that we evaluated using archaeological data. These results suggest that the earliest Australian ancestors adopted a set of fundamental rules shaped by physiological capacity, attraction to visually prominent landscape features and freshwater distribution to maximize survival, even without previous experience of the landscapes they encountered.
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- Stefani A Crabtree
- Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA. .,The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA. .,ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia. .,Université de Paris, INSERM U1284, Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Paris, France.
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- Autonomous Sensing and Perception, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.,Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.,Global Ecology Partuyarta Ngadluku Wardli Kuu, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.,Global Ecology Partuyarta Ngadluku Wardli Kuu, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Climate Change Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.,ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.,EMM Consulting Pty Ltd, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.,College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.,College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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Liu Y, Mao X, Krause J, Fu Q. Insights into human history from the first decade of ancient human genomics. Science 2021; 373:1479-1484. [PMID: 34554811 DOI: 10.1126/science.abi8202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Yichen Liu
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100044, China
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100044, China.,University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Isshiki M, Naka I, Kimura R, Nishida N, Furusawa T, Natsuhara K, Yamauchi T, Nakazawa M, Ishida T, Inaoka T, Matsumura Y, Ohtsuka R, Ohashi J. Admixture with indigenous people helps local adaptation: admixture-enabled selection in Polynesians. BMC Ecol Evol 2021; 21:179. [PMID: 34551727 PMCID: PMC8456657 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-021-01900-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Background Homo sapiens have experienced admixture many times in the last few thousand years. To examine how admixture affects local adaptation, we investigated genomes of modern Polynesians, who are shaped through admixture between Austronesian-speaking people from Southeast Asia (Asian-related ancestors) and indigenous people in Near Oceania (Papuan-related ancestors). Methods In this study local ancestry was estimated across the genome in Polynesians (23 Tongan subjects) to find the candidate regions of admixture-enabled selection contributed by Papuan-related ancestors. Results The mean proportion of Papuan-related ancestry across the Polynesian genome was estimated as 24.6% (SD = 8.63%), and two genomic regions, the extended major histocompatibility complex (xMHC) region on chromosome 6 and the ATP-binding cassette transporter sub-family C member 11 (ABCC11) gene on chromosome 16, showed proportions of Papuan-related ancestry more than 5 SD greater than the mean (> 67.8%). The coalescent simulation under the assumption of selective neutrality suggested that such signals of Papuan-related ancestry enrichment were caused by positive selection after admixture (false discovery rate = 0.045). The ABCC11 harbors a nonsynonymous SNP, rs17822931, which affects apocrine secretory cell function. The approximate Bayesian computation indicated that, in Polynesian ancestors, a strong positive selection (s = 0.0217) acted on the ancestral allele of rs17822931 derived from Papuan-related ancestors. Conclusions Our results suggest that admixture with Papuan-related ancestors contributed to the rapid local adaptation of Polynesian ancestors. Considering frequent admixture events in human evolution history, the acceleration of local adaptation through admixture should be a common event in humans. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12862-021-01900-y.
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- Mariko Isshiki
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Human Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, 903-0125, Japan
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- Genome Medical Science Project, Research Center for Hepatitis and Immunology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Chiba, 272-8516, Japan
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- Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of International Health and Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Toho University, Tokyo, 143-0015, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0812, Japan
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- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kobe University, Kobe, 654-0142, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Human Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan
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- Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Bunkyo University, Chigasaki, 253-8550, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
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Ioannidis AG, Blanco-Portillo J, Sandoval K, Hagelberg E, Barberena-Jonas C, Hill AVS, Rodríguez-Rodríguez JE, Fox K, Robson K, Haoa-Cardinali S, Quinto-Cortés CD, Miquel-Poblete JF, Auckland K, Parks T, Sofro ASM, Ávila-Arcos MC, Sockell A, Homburger JR, Eng C, Huntsman S, Burchard EG, Gignoux CR, Verdugo RA, Moraga M, Bustamante CD, Mentzer AJ, Moreno-Estrada A. Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks. Nature 2021; 597:522-526. [PMID: 34552258 PMCID: PMC9710236 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03902-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Polynesia was settled in a series of extraordinary voyages across an ocean spanning one third of the Earth1, but the sequences of islands settled remain unknown and their timings disputed. Currently, several centuries separate the dates suggested by different archaeological surveys2-4. Here, using genome-wide data from merely 430 modern individuals from 21 key Pacific island populations and novel ancestry-specific computational analyses, we unravel the detailed genetic history of this vast, dispersed island network. Our reconstruction of the branching Polynesian migration sequence reveals a serial founder expansion, characterized by directional loss of variants, that originated in Samoa and spread first through the Cook Islands (Rarotonga), then to the Society (Tōtaiete mā) Islands (11th century), the western Austral (Tuha'a Pae) Islands and Tuāmotu Archipelago (12th century), and finally to the widely separated, but genetically connected, megalithic statue-building cultures of the Marquesas (Te Henua 'Enana) Islands in the north, Raivavae in the south, and Easter Island (Rapa Nui), the easternmost of the Polynesian islands, settled in approximately AD 1200 via Mangareva.
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- Alexander G Ioannidis
- Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO)-Advanced Genomics Unit (UGA), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO)-Advanced Genomics Unit (UGA), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO)-Advanced Genomics Unit (UGA), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO)-Advanced Genomics Unit (UGA), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, UK
- The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO)-Advanced Genomics Unit (UGA), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO)-Advanced Genomics Unit (UGA), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Yayasan Rumah Sakit Islam (YARSI) University, Cempaka Putih, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- International Laboratory for Human Genome Research (LIIGH), UNAM Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico
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- Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA
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- Human Genetics Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Translational Oncology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Human Genetics Program, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, UK
- Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO)-Advanced Genomics Unit (UGA), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
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Sedig JW, Olade I, Patterson N, Harney É, Reich D. COMBINING ANCIENT DNA AND RADIOCARBON DATING DATA TO INCREASE CHRONOLOGICAL ACCURACY. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2021; 133:105452. [PMID: 34483440 PMCID: PMC8415703 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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This paper examines how ancient DNA data can enhance radiocarbon dating. Because there is a limit to the number of years that can separate the dates of death of related individuals, the ability to identify relatives through ancient DNA analysis can serve as a constraint on radiocarbon date range estimates. To determine the number of years that can separate related individuals, we modeled maximums derived from biological extremes of human reproduction and death ages and compiled data from historic and genealogical death records. We used these data to jointly study the date ranges of a global dataset of individuals that have been radiocarbon dated and for which ancient DNA analysis identified at least one relative. We found that many of these individuals could have their date uncertainties reduced by building in date of death separation constraints. We examined possible reasons for date discrepancies of related individuals, such as dating of different skeletal elements or wiggles in the radiocarbon curve. We also developed a program, refinedate, which researchers can download and use to help refine the radiocarbon date distributions of related individuals. Our research demonstrates that when combined, radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA analysis can provide a refined and richer view of the past.
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- Jakob W Sedig
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Brucato N, André M, Tsang R, Saag L, Kariwiga J, Sesuki K, Beni T, Pomat W, Muke J, Meyer V, Boland A, Deleuze JF, Sudoyo H, Mondal M, Pagani L, Romero IG, Metspalu M, Cox MP, Leavesley M, Ricaut FX. Papua New Guinean genomes reveal the complex settlement of north Sahul. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:5107-5121. [PMID: 34383935 PMCID: PMC8557464 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The settlement of Sahul, the lost continent of Oceania, remains one of the most ancient and debated human migrations. Modern New Guineans inherited a unique genetic diversity tracing back 50,000 years, and yet there is currently no model reconstructing their past population dynamics. We generated 58 new whole genome sequences from Papua New Guinea, filling geographical gaps in previous sampling, specifically to address alternative scenarios of the initial migration to Sahul and the settlement of New Guinea. Here, we present the first genomic models for the settlement of northeast Sahul considering one or two migrations from Wallacea. Both models fit our dataset, reinforcing the idea that ancestral groups to New Guinean and Indigenous Australians split early, potentially during their migration in Wallacea where the northern route could have been favored. The earliest period of human presence in Sahul was an era of interactions and gene flow between related but already differentiated groups, from whom all modern New Guineans, Bismarck islanders and Indigenous Australians descend. The settlement of New Guinea was probably initiated from its southeast region, where the oldest archaeological sites have been found. This was followed by two migrations into the south and north lowlands that ultimately reached the west and east highlands. We also identify ancient gene flows between populations in New Guinea, Australia, East Indonesia and the Bismarck Archipelago, emphasizing the fact that the anthropological landscape during the early period of Sahul settlement was highly dynamic rather than the traditional view of extensive isolation.
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- Nicolas Brucato
- Laboratoire Évolution and Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS. 118 route de Narbonne, Bat 4R1, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
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- Laboratoire Évolution and Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS. 118 route de Narbonne, Bat 4R1, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France.,Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia
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- School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science and Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit, Griffith University Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia.,Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, University 134, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, University 134, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea.,School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Australia, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, University 134, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, University 134, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
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- Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea
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- Social Research Institute, Papua New Guinea
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, 91057 Evry, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, 91057 Evry, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine, 91057 Evry, France
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta 10430, Indonesia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia.,Department of Biology, University of Padua, Italy
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa 51010, Estonia
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, PO Box 320, University 134, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea.,College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, P.O. Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia.,ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New south Wales, 2522, Australia
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- Laboratoire Évolution and Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS. 118 route de Narbonne, Bat 4R1, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
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Larena M, McKenna J, Sanchez-Quinto F, Bernhardsson C, Ebeo C, Reyes R, Casel O, Huang JY, Hagada KP, Guilay D, Reyes J, Allian FP, Mori V, Azarcon LS, Manera A, Terando C, Jamero L, Sireg G, Manginsay-Tremedal R, Labos MS, Vilar RD, Latiph A, Saway RL, Marte E, Magbanua P, Morales A, Java I, Reveche R, Barrios B, Burton E, Salon JC, Kels MJT, Albano A, Cruz-Angeles RB, Molanida E, Granehäll L, Vicente M, Edlund H, Loo JH, Trejaut J, Ho SYW, Reid L, Lambeck K, Malmström H, Schlebusch C, Endicott P, Jakobsson M. Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world. Curr Biol 2021; 31:4219-4230.e10. [PMID: 34388371 PMCID: PMC8596304 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Multiple lines of evidence show that modern humans interbred with archaic Denisovans. Here, we report an account of shared demographic history between Australasians and Denisovans distinctively in Island Southeast Asia. Our analyses are based on ∼2.3 million genotypes from 118 ethnic groups of the Philippines, including 25 diverse self-identified Negrito populations, along with high-coverage genomes of Australopapuans and Ayta Magbukon Negritos. We show that Ayta Magbukon possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world-∼30%-40% greater than that of Australians and Papuans-consistent with an independent admixture event into Negritos from Denisovans. Together with the recently described Homo luzonensis, we suggest that there were multiple archaic species that inhabited the Philippines prior to the arrival of modern humans and that these archaic groups may have been genetically related. Altogether, our findings unveil a complex intertwined history of modern and archaic humans in the Asia-Pacific region, where distinct Islander Denisovan populations differentially admixed with incoming Australasians across multiple locations and at various points in time.
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- Maximilian Larena
- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden; Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), Mexico City 14610, Mexico
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- National Committee on Cultural Education, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines; National Museum of the Philippines, Padre Burgos Avenue, Rizal Park, Ermita, Manila, Philippines
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- Ayta Magbukon Cultural Bearer, Ayta Magbukon Indigenous Cultural Community, Abucay, Bataan, Philippines; National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, Philippines
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- Mindanao Doctors Hospital and Cancer Center, Kabacan, Cotabato, Philippines
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- Molecular Anthropology and Transfusion Medicine Research Laboratory, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei City 10449, Taiwan
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- National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, Philippines; Young Indigenous Peoples Empowered to Act in Community Engagement, Diffun, Quirino
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- Balangao Indigenous Cultural Community, Paracelis, Mountain Province, Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines
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- Department of Education - Bataan Division, Bataan, Philippines
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- Nisa Ul Haqq fi Bangsamoro, Zamboanga City, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines; Tarbilang Foundation, Inc., Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
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- Tarbilang Foundation, Inc., Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
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- Center for Language and Culture, Quirino State University, Barangay Andres Bonifacio, Diffun, Quirino, Philippines
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- Center for Language and Culture, Cagayan State University - Andrews Campus, Caritan Highway, Tuguegarao, Cagayan, Philippines
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- Tagakaulo Indigenous Cultural Community, Malungon, Sarangani, Philippines; Sulong Tribu Program, Provincial Government of Sarangani, Glan, Sarangani, Philippines
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- Ayta Magbukon Cultural Bearer, Ayta Magbukon Indigenous Cultural Community, Abucay, Bataan, Philippines
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- Subanen Indigenous Cultural Community, Lakewood, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines; Dumendingan Arts Guild Inc., Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines
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- Ateneo Institute of Anthropology, Ateneo de Davao University, Roxas Avenue, 8016 Davao City, Philippines; Museo Dabawenyo, Andres Bonifacio Rotunda, Poblacion District, Davao City, Philippines
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- Cultural Outreach Program, Kaliwat Performing Artists Collective, Gumamela St., Lanang, Davao City, Philippines; Culture, Heritage, and Arts Office, Local Government Unit of Butuan, Butuan City, Philippines
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- Institute for Peace and Development in Mindanao, Mindanao State University - Marawi Campus, Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
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- Legal Affairs Office, Indigenous People's Mandatory Representative - Sangguniang Panlalawigan, Bukidnon, Northern Mindanao, Philippines
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- National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, Philippines; Cuyonon Indigenous Cultural Community, Cuyo Island, Palawan, Philippines
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- Surigaonon Heritage Center, Surigao City, Surigao del Norte, Philippines
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- Kabankalan City Cultural and Tourism Foundation, Inc., Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, Philippines; Cultural Research and Documentation, Negros Museum, Gatuslao St., Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines
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- Cultural Research and Documentation, Negros Museum, Gatuslao St., Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines; Culture and Arts Program, Colegio San Agustin, BS Aquino Drive, Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines
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- Panaghiusa Alang Sa Kaugalingnan Ug Kalingkawasan, Inc., Bunawan, Agusan del Sur, Philippines; Agusan Manobo Indigenous Cultural Community, La Paz, Agusan del Sur, Philippines
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- Museo de Oro, Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan, Corrales Avenue, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines
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- Museo de Oro, Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan, Corrales Avenue, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines; City Museum of Cagayan de Oro, Fernandez St., Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Kalanguya Indigenous Cultural Community, Tinoc, Ifugao, Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines; Office of Tinoc Campus Administrator, Ifugao State University, Tinoc, Ifugao, Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines
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- Heritage Office, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines; Office of the Executive Director, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Molecular Anthropology and Transfusion Medicine Research Laboratory, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei City 10449, Taiwan
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- Molecular Anthropology and Transfusion Medicine Research Laboratory, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei City 10449, Taiwan
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, HI, USA; National Museum of the Philippines, Padre Burgos Avenue, Rizal Park, Ermita, Manila, Philippines
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- Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden; Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden; Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa; SciLifeLab, Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department Hommes Natures Societies, Musée de l'Homme, 75016 Paris, Ile de France, France
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- Human Evolution, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden; Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, PO Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa; SciLifeLab, Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden.
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André M, Brucato N, Plutniak S, Kariwiga J, Muke J, Morez A, Leavesley M, Mondal M, Ricaut FX. Phenotypic differences between highlanders and lowlanders in Papua New Guinea. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0253921. [PMID: 34288918 PMCID: PMC8294550 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Altitude is one of the most demanding environmental pressures for human populations. Highlanders from Asia, America and Africa have been shown to exhibit different biological adaptations, but Oceanian populations remain understudied [Woolcock et al., 1972; Cotes et al., 1974; Senn et al., 2010]. We tested the hypothesis that highlanders phenotypically differ from lowlanders in Papua New Guinea, as a result of inhabiting the highest mountains in Oceania for at least 20,000 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS We collected data for 13 different phenotypes related to altitude for 162 Papua New Guineans living at high altitude (Mont Wilhelm, 2,300-2,700 m above sea level (a.s.l.) and low altitude (Daru, <100m a.s.l.). Multilinear regressions were performed to detect differences between highlanders and lowlanders for phenotypic measurements related to body proportions, pulmonary function, and the circulatory system. RESULTS Six phenotypes were significantly different between Papua New Guinean highlanders and lowlanders. Highlanders show shorter height (p-value = 0.001), smaller waist circumference (p-value = 0.002), larger Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) (p-value = 0.008), larger maximal (p-value = 3.20e -4) and minimal chest depth (p-value = 2.37e -5) and higher haemoglobin concentration (p-value = 3.36e -4). DISCUSSION Our study reports specific phenotypes in Papua New Guinean highlanders potentially related to altitude adaptation. Similar to other human groups adapted to high altitude, the evolutionary history of Papua New Guineans appears to have also followed an adaptive biological strategy for altitude.
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- Mathilde André
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia
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- Laboratoire Évolution and Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Travaux et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Cultures, les Espaces et les Sociétés (TRACES, UMR 5608), Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Maison de la Recherche, Toulouse, France
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
- School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Australia, St Lucia, Australia
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- Social Research Institute Ltd, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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- School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Strand of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia
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- Laboratoire Évolution and Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France
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Tätte K, Metspalu E, Post H, Palencia-Madrid L, Luis JR, Reidla M, Rea A, Tamm E, Moding EJ, de Pancorbo MM, Garcia-Bertrand R, Metspalu M, Herrera RJ. The Ami and Yami aborigines of Taiwan and their genetic relationship to East Asian and Pacific populations. Eur J Hum Genet 2021; 29:1092-1102. [PMID: 33753914 PMCID: PMC8298601 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-021-00837-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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This article reports on the genetic characteristics of the Ami and Yami, two aboriginal populations of Taiwan. Y-SNP and mtDNA markers as well as autosomal SNPs were utilized to investigate the phylogenetic relationships to groups from MSEA (mainland Southeast Asia), ISEA (island Southeast Asia), and Oceania. Both the Ami and Yami have limited genetic diversity, with the Yami having even less diversity than the Ami. The partitioning of populations within the PCA plots based on autosomal SNPs, the profile constitution observed in the structure analyses demonstrating similar composition among specific populations, the average IBD (identical by descent) tract length gradients, the average total length of genome share among the populations, and the outgroup f3 results all indicate genetic affinities among populations that trace a geographical arc from Taiwan south into the Philippine Archipelago, Borneo, Indonesia, and Melanesia. Conversely, a more distant kinship between the Ami/Yami and MSEA based on all the markers examined, the total mtDNA sequences as well as the admixture f3 and f4 analyses argue against strong genetic contribution from MSEA to the Austronesian dispersal. The sharing of long IBD tracts, total genome length, and the large number of segments in common between the Ami/Yami and the Society Archipelago populations East Polynesia standout considering they are located about 10,700 km apart.
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- Kai Tätte
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- BIOMICs Research Group, Lascaray Research Center, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Area de Antropología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA
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- BIOMICs Research Group, Lascaray Research Center, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
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Ingman T, Eisenmann S, Skourtanioti E, Akar M, Ilgner J, Gnecchi Ruscone GA, le Roux P, Shafiq R, Neumann GU, Keller M, Freund C, Marzo S, Lucas M, Krause J, Roberts P, Yener KA, Stockhammer PW. Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0241883. [PMID: 34191795 PMCID: PMC8244877 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The Middle and Late Bronze Age, a period roughly spanning the 2nd millennium BC (ca. 2000–1200 BC) in the Near East, is frequently referred to as the first ‘international age’, characterized by intense and far-reaching contacts between different entities from the eastern Mediterranean to the Near East and beyond. In a large-scale tandem study of stable isotopes and ancient DNA of individuals excavated at Tell Atchana (Alalakh, located in Hatay, Turkey), we explored the role of mobility at the capital of a regional kingdom, named Mukish during the Late Bronze Age, which spanned the Amuq Valley and some areas beyond. We generated strontium and oxygen isotope data from dental enamel for 53 individuals and 77 individuals, respectively, and added ancient DNA data of 10 newly sequenced individuals to a dataset of 27 individuals published in 2020. Additionally, we improved the DNA coverage of one individual from this 2020 dataset. The DNA data revealed a very homogeneous gene pool. This picture of an overwhelmingly local ancestry was consistent with the evidence of local upbringing in most of the individuals indicated by the isotopic data, where only five were found to be non-local. High levels of contact, trade, and exchange of ideas and goods in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, therefore, seem not to have translated into high levels of individual mobility detectable at Tell Atchana.
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- Tara Ingman
- Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
- * E-mail: (TI); (SE); (KAY); (PWS)
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- * E-mail: (TI); (SE); (KAY); (PWS)
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Mustafa Kemal University, Alahan-Antakya, Hatay, Turkey
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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- Anthropology Department, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University, New York, NY, United States of America
- * E-mail: (TI); (SE); (KAY); (PWS)
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
- * E-mail: (TI); (SE); (KAY); (PWS)
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Hofreiter M, Sneberger J, Pospisek M, Vanek D. Progress in forensic bone DNA analysis: Lessons learned from ancient DNA. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2021; 54:102538. [PMID: 34265517 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2021.102538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Revised: 03/07/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Research on ancient and forensic DNA is related in many ways, and the two fields must deal with similar obstacles. Therefore, communication between these two communities has the potential to improve results in both research fields. Here, we present the insights gained in the ancient DNA community with regard to analyzing DNA from aged skeletal material and the potential use of the developed protocols in forensic work. We discuss the various steps, from choosing samples for DNA extraction to deciding between classical PCR amplification and massively parallel sequencing approaches. Based on the progress made in ancient DNA analyses combined with the requirements of forensic work, we suggest that there is substantial potential for incorporating ancient DNA approaches into forensic protocols, a process that has already begun to a considerable extent. However, taking full advantage of the experiences gained from ancient DNA work will require comparative studies by the forensic DNA community to tailor the methods developed for ancient samples to the specific needs of forensic studies and case work. If successful, in our view, the benefits for both communities would be considerable.
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- Michael Hofreiter
- Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Vinicna 5, Prague 2 12843, Czech Republic; Department of the History of the Middle Ages of Museum of West Bohemia, Kopeckeho sady 2, Pilsen 30100, Czech Republic; Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Na Truhlarce 39/64, Prague 18086, Czech Republic
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Vinicna 5, Prague 2 12843, Czech Republic; Biologicals s.r.o., Sramkova 315, Ricany 25101, Czech Republic
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- Forensic DNA Service, Janovskeho 18, Prague 7 17000, Czech Republic; Institute of Legal Medicine, Bulovka Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; Charles University in Prague, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
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The deep population history of northern East Asia from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene. Cell 2021; 184:3256-3266.e13. [PMID: 34048699 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.04.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2020] [Revised: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Northern East Asia was inhabited by modern humans as early as 40 thousand years ago (ka), as demonstrated by the Tianyuan individual. Using genome-wide data obtained from 25 individuals dated to 33.6-3.4 ka from the Amur region, we show that Tianyuan-related ancestry was widespread in northern East Asia before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). At the close of the LGM stadial, the earliest northern East Asian appeared in the Amur region, and this population is basal to ancient northern East Asians. Human populations in the Amur region have maintained genetic continuity from 14 ka, and these early inhabitants represent the closest East Asian source known for Ancient Paleo-Siberians. We also observed that EDAR V370A was likely to have been elevated to high frequency after the LGM, suggesting the possible timing for its selection. This study provides a deep look into the population dynamics of northern East Asia.
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Yu X, Li H. Origin of ethnic groups, linguistic families, and civilizations in China viewed from the Y chromosome. Mol Genet Genomics 2021; 296:783-797. [PMID: 34037863 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-021-01794-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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East Asia, geographically extending to the Pamir Plateau in the west, to the Himalayan Mountains in the southwest, to Lake Baikal in the north and to the South China Sea in the south, harbors a variety of people, cultures, and languages. To reconstruct the natural history of East Asians is a mission of multiple disciplines, including genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and ethnology. Geneticists confirm the recent African origin of modern East Asians. Anatomically modern humans arose in Africa and immigrated into East Asia via a southern route approximately 50,000 years ago. Following the end of the Last Glacial Maximum approximately 12,000 years ago, rice and millet were domesticated in the south and north of East Asia, respectively, which allowed human populations to expand and linguistic families and ethnic groups to develop. These Neolithic populations produced a strong relation between the present genetic structures and linguistic families. The expansion of the Hongshan people from northeastern China relocated most of the ethnic populations on a large scale approximately 5300 years ago. Most of the ethnic groups migrated to remote regions, producing genetic structure differences between the edge and center of East Asia. In central China, pronounced population admixture occurred and accelerated over time, which subsequently formed the Han Chinese population and eventually the Chinese civilization. Population migration between the north and the south throughout history has left a smooth gradient in north-south changes in genetic structure. Observation of the process of shaping the genetic structure of East Asians may help in understanding the global natural history of modern humans.
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- Xueer Yu
- MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China.,Shanxi Academy of Advanced Research and Innovation, Fudan-Datong Institute of Chinese Origin, Datong, 037006, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China. .,Shanxi Academy of Advanced Research and Innovation, Fudan-Datong Institute of Chinese Origin, Datong, 037006, China.
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