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Balinova N, Hudjašov G, Pankratov V, Pennarun E, Reidla M, Metspalu E, Batyrov V, Khomyakova I, Reisberg T, Parik J, Dzhaubermezov M, Aiyzhy E, Balinova A, El'chinova G, Spitsyna N, Khusnutdinova E, Metspalu M, Tambets K, Villems R, Kushniarevich A. Gene pool preservation across time and space In Mongolian-speaking Oirats. Eur J Hum Genet 2024:10.1038/s41431-024-01588-w. [PMID: 38605123 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-024-01588-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024] Open
Abstract
The Oirats are a group of Mongolian-speaking peoples residing in Russia, China, and Mongolia, who speak Oirat dialects of the Mongolian language. Migrations of nomadic ethnopolitical formations of the Oirats across the Eurasian Steppe during the Late Middle Ages/early Modern times resulted in a wide geographic spread of Oirat ethnic groups from present-day northwestern China in East Asia to the Lower Volga region in Eastern Europe. In this study, we generate new genome-wide and mitochondrial DNA data for present-day Oirat-speaking populations from Kalmykia in Eastern Europe, Western Mongolia, and the Xinjiang region of China, as well as Issyk-Kul Sart-Kalmaks from Central Asia, and historically related ethnic groups from Altai, Tuva, and Northern Mongolia to study the genetic structure and history of the Oirats. Despite their spatial and temporal separation, small current population census, both the Kalmyks of Eastern Europe and the Oirats of Western Mongolia in East Asia are characterized by strong genetic similarity, high effective population size, and low levels of interpopulation structure. This contrasts the fine genetic structure observed today at a smaller geographic scale in traditionally sedentary populations, and is conditioned by high mobility and marriage practices (traditional strict exogamy) in nomadic groups. Conversely, the genetic profile of the Issyk-Kul Sart-Kalmaks suggests a distinct source(s) of genetic ancestry, along with indications of isolation and genetic drift compared to other Oirats. Our results also show that there was limited gene flow between the ancestors of the Oirats and the Altaians during the late Middle Ages. Source of the yurt image: https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/yurt .
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- Natalia Balinova
- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moskvorechye Str. 1, 115522, Moscow, Russia.
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- Core Facility of Genomics, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Kalmyk State University named after B. B. Gorodovikov, Pushkina Str. 11, 358000, Elista, Russia
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- Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Mokhovaya Str., 11, 125009, Moscow, Russia
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- Core Facility of Genomics, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Core Facility of Genomics, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 71 Prospekt Oktyabrya Str., 450054, Ufa, Russia
- Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education "Ufa University of Science and Technology", 32 Zaki Validi Str., 450076, Ufa, Russia
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- Tuvan State University, Kyzyl, Russian Federation, Lenina Str., 36, 667000, Kyzyl, Republiс of Tuva, Russia
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- Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoi Kislovsky Pereulok, 1, 125009, Moscow, Russia
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moskvorechye Str. 1, 115522, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospekt, 32 А, 119334, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 71 Prospekt Oktyabrya Str., 450054, Ufa, Russia
- Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education "Ufa University of Science and Technology", 32 Zaki Validi Str., 450076, Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23B, 51010, Tartu, Estonia.
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Tätte K, Metspalu E, Post H, Palencia-Madrid L, Luis JR, Reidla M, Tamm E, Ilumäe AM, de Pancorbo MM, Garcia-Bertrand R, Metspalu M, Herrera RJ. Genetic characterization of populations in the Marquesas Archipelago in the context of the Austronesian expansion. Sci Rep 2022; 12:5312. [PMID: 35351918 PMCID: PMC8964752 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08910-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Our exploration of the genetic constitution of Nuku Hiva (n = 51), Hiva Oa (n = 28) and Tahuata (n = 8) of the Marquesas Archipelago based on the analyses of genome-wide autosomal markers as well as high-resolution genotyping of paternal and maternal lineages provides us with information on the origins and settlement of these islands at the fringe of the Austronesian expansion. One widespread theme that emerges from this study is the genetic uniformity and relative isolation exhibited by the Marquesas and Society populations. This genetic homogeneity within East Polynesia groups is reflected in their limited average heterozygosity, uniformity of constituents in the Structure analyses, reiteration of complete mtDNA sequences, marked separation from Asian and other Oceanic populations in the PC analyses, limited differentiation in the PCAs and large number of IBD segments in common. Both the f3 and the Outgroup f3 results provide indications of intra-East Polynesian gene flow that may have promoted the observed intra-East Polynesia genetic homogeneity while ALDER analyses indicate that East Polynesia experienced two gene flow episodes, one relatively recent from Europe that coincides roughly with the European incursion into the region and an early one that may represent the original settlement of the islands by Austronesians. Median Network analysis based on high-resolution Y-STR loci under C2a-M208 generates a star-like topology with East Polynesian groups (especially from the Society Archipelago) in central stem positions and individuals from the different populations radiating out one mutational step away while several Samoan and outlier individuals occupy peripheral positions. This arrangement of populations is congruent with dispersals of C2a-M208 Y chromosomes from East Polynesia as a migration hub signaling dispersals in various directions. The equivalent ages of the C2a-M208 lineage of the populations in the Network corroborate an east to west flow of the most abundant Polynesian Y chromosome.
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- Kai Tätte
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- BIOMICs Research Group, Lascaray Research Center, 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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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland
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- BIOMICs Research Group, Lascaray Research Center, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 01006, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, USA.
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Kivisild T, Saag L, Hui R, Biagini SA, Pankratov V, D'Atanasio E, Pagani L, Saag L, Rootsi S, Mägi R, Metspalu E, Valk H, Malve M, Irdt K, Reisberg T, Solnik A, Scheib CL, Seidman DN, Williams AL, Tambets K, Metspalu M. Patterns of genetic connectedness between modern and medieval Estonian genomes reveal the origins of a major ancestry component of the Finnish population. Am J Hum Genet 2021; 108:1792-1806. [PMID: 34411538 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
The Finnish population is a unique example of a genetic isolate affected by a recent founder event. Previous studies have suggested that the ancestors of Finnic-speaking Finns and Estonians reached the circum-Baltic region by the 1st millennium BC. However, high linguistic similarity points to a more recent split of their languages. To study genetic connectedness between Finns and Estonians directly, we first assessed the efficacy of imputation of low-coverage ancient genomes by sequencing a medieval Estonian genome to high depth (23×) and evaluated the performance of its down-sampled replicas. We find that ancient genomes imputed from >0.1× coverage can be reliably used in principal-component analyses without projection. By searching for long shared allele intervals (LSAIs; similar to identity-by-descent segments) in unphased data for >143,000 present-day Estonians, 99 Finns, and 14 imputed ancient genomes from Estonia, we find unexpectedly high levels of individual connectedness between Estonians and Finns for the last eight centuries in contrast to their clear differentiation by allele frequencies. High levels of sharing of these segments between Estonians and Finns predate the demographic expansion and late settlement process of Finland. One plausible source of this extensive sharing is the 8th-10th centuries AD migration event from North Estonia to Finland that has been proposed to explain uniquely shared linguistic features between the Finnish language and the northern dialect of Estonian and shared Christianity-related loanwords from Slavic. These results suggest that LSAI detection provides a computationally tractable way to detect fine-scale structure in large cohorts.
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- Toomas Kivisild
- Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium; Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK.
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Research Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK; The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Instituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Department of Biology, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Core Facility, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Core Facility, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK; St John's College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TP, UK
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- Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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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] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [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
Abstract
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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Sahakyan H, Margaryan A, Saag L, Karmin M, Flores R, Haber M, Kushniarevich A, Khachatryan Z, Bahmanimehr A, Parik J, Karafet T, Yunusbayev B, Reisberg T, Solnik A, Metspalu E, Hovhannisyan A, Khusnutdinova EK, Behar DM, Metspalu M, Yepiskoposyan L, Rootsi S, Villems R. Origin and diffusion of human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6659. [PMID: 33758277 PMCID: PMC7987999 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-85883-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
Abstract
Human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 is a common male lineage in West Asia. One high-frequency region-encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, southern Mesopotamia, and the southern Levant-resides ~ 2000 km away from the other one found in the Caucasus. The region between them, although has a lower frequency, nevertheless demonstrates high genetic diversity. Studies associate this haplogroup with the spread of farming from the Fertile Crescent to Europe, the spread of mobile pastoralism in the desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula, the history of the Jews, and the spread of Islam. Here, we study past human male demography in West Asia with 172 high-coverage whole Y chromosome sequences and 889 genotyped samples of haplogroup J1-M267. We show that this haplogroup evolved ~ 20,000 years ago somewhere in northwestern Iran, the Caucasus, the Armenian Highland, and northern Mesopotamia. The major branch-J1a1a1-P58-evolved during the early Holocene ~ 9500 years ago somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, and southern Mesopotamia. Haplogroup J1-M267 expanded during the Chalcolithic, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. Most probably, the spread of Afro-Asiatic languages, the spread of mobile pastoralism in the arid zones, or both of these events together explain the distribution of haplogroup J1-M267 we see today in the southern regions of West Asia.
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- Hovhannes Sahakyan
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia.
- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 0014, Yerevan, Armenia.
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 0014, Yerevan, Armenia
- Lundbeck Foundation, Department of Biology, GeoGenetics Centre, University of Copenhagen, 1350, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, Manawatu, 4442, New Zealand
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 0014, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 0014, Yerevan, Armenia
- Thalassemia and Haemophilia Genetic PND Research Center, Dastgheib Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, 71456-83769, Shiraz, Iran
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- ARL Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine of Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, 450076
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- Core Facility, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Core Facility, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 0014, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine of Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, 450076
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics of Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Institute of Molecular Biology of National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 0014, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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Saag L, Vasilyev SV, Varul L, Kosorukova NV, Gerasimov DV, Oshibkina SV, Griffith SJ, Solnik A, Saag L, D'Atanasio E, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Rootsi S, Kivisild T, Scheib CL, Tambets K, Kriiska A, Metspalu M. Genetic ancestry changes in Stone to Bronze Age transition in the East European plain. Sci Adv 2021; 7:7/4/eabd6535. [PMID: 33523926 PMCID: PMC7817100 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd6535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The transition from Stone to Bronze Age in Central and Western Europe was a period of major population movements originating from the Ponto-Caspian Steppe. Here, we report new genome-wide sequence data from 30 individuals north of this area, from the understudied western part of present-day Russia, including 3 Stone Age hunter-gatherers (10,800 to 4250 cal BCE) and 26 Bronze Age farmers from the Corded Ware complex Fatyanovo Culture (2900 to 2050 cal BCE). We show that Eastern hunter-gatherer ancestry was present in northwestern Russia already from around 10,000 BCE. Furthermore, we see a change in ancestry with the arrival of farming-Fatyanovo Culture individuals were genetically similar to other Corded Ware cultures, carrying a mixture of Steppe and European early farmer ancestry. Thus, they likely originate from a fast migration toward the northeast from somewhere near modern-day Ukraine-the closest area where these ancestries coexisted from around 3000 BCE.
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- Lehti Saag
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia.
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- Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Archaeological Research Collection, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallinn 10130, Estonia
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- Cherepovets State University and Cherepovets Museum Association, Cherepovets 162600, Russia
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- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, National Research Council, Rome 00185, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- St. John's College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TP, UK
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia.
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia.
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Saag L, Laneman M, Varul L, Malve M, Valk H, Razzak MA, Shirobokov IG, Khartanovich VI, Mikhaylova ER, Kushniarevich A, Scheib CL, Solnik A, Reisberg T, Parik J, Saag L, Metspalu E, Rootsi S, Montinaro F, Remm M, Mägi R, D'Atanasio E, Crema ER, Díez-Del-Molino D, Thomas MG, Kriiska A, Kivisild T, Villems R, Lang V, Metspalu M, Tambets K. The Arrival of Siberian Ancestry Connecting the Eastern Baltic to Uralic Speakers further East. Curr Biol 2019; 29:1701-1711.e16. [PMID: 31080083 PMCID: PMC6544527 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Revised: 03/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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In this study, we compare the genetic ancestry of individuals from two as yet genetically unstudied cultural traditions in Estonia in the context of available modern and ancient datasets: 15 from the Late Bronze Age stone-cist graves (1200-400 BC) (EstBA) and 6 from the Pre-Roman Iron Age tarand cemeteries (800/500 BC-50 AD) (EstIA). We also included 5 Pre-Roman to Roman Iron Age Ingrian (500 BC-450 AD) (IngIA) and 7 Middle Age Estonian (1200-1600 AD) (EstMA) individuals to build a dataset for studying the demographic history of the northern parts of the Eastern Baltic from the earliest layer of Mesolithic to modern times. Our findings are consistent with EstBA receiving gene flow from regions with strong Western hunter-gatherer (WHG) affinities and EstIA from populations related to modern Siberians. The latter inference is in accordance with Y chromosome (chrY) distributions in present day populations of the Eastern Baltic, as well as patterns of autosomal variation in the majority of the westernmost Uralic speakers [1-5]. This ancestry reached the coasts of the Baltic Sea no later than the mid-first millennium BC; i.e., in the same time window as the diversification of west Uralic (Finnic) languages [6]. Furthermore, phenotypic traits often associated with modern Northern Europeans, like light eyes, hair, and skin, as well as lactose tolerance, can be traced back to the Bronze Age in the Eastern Baltic. VIDEO ABSTRACT.
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- Lehti Saag
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia.
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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- School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallinn 10120, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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- Department of Slavic and Finnic Archaeology, Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 191186, Russia
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- Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
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- Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm 104 05, Sweden; Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm 106 91, Sweden
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- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK; UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia.
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Balinova N, Post H, Kushniarevich A, Flores R, Karmin M, Sahakyan H, Reidla M, Metspalu E, Litvinov S, Dzhaubermezov M, Akhmetova V, Khusainova R, Endicott P, Khusnutdinova E, Orlova K, Bakaeva E, Khomyakova I, Spitsina N, Zinchenko R, Villems R, Rootsi S. Y-chromosomal analysis of clan structure of Kalmyks, the only European Mongol people, and their relationship to Oirat-Mongols of Inner Asia. Eur J Hum Genet 2019; 27:1466-1474. [PMID: 30976109 PMCID: PMC6777519 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-019-0399-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Revised: 03/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Kalmyks, the only Mongolic-speaking population in Europe, live in the southeast of the European Plain, in Russia. They adhere to Buddhism and speak a dialect of the Mongolian language. Historical and linguistic evidence, as well a shared clan names, suggests a common origin with Oirats of western Mongolia; yet, only a limited number of genetic studies have focused on this topic. Here we compare the paternal genetic relationship of Kalmyk clans with ethnographically related groups from Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and China, within the context of their neighbouring populations. A phylogeny of 37 high-coverage Y-chromosome sequences, together with further genotyping of larger sample sets, reveals that all the Oirat-speaking populations studied here, including Kalmyks, share, as a dominant paternal lineage, Y-chromosomal haplogroup C3c1-M77, which is also present in several geographically distant native Siberian populations. We identify a subset of this clade, C3c1b-F6379, specifically enriched in Kalmyks as well as in Oirat-speaking clans in Inner Asia. This sub-clade coalesces at around 1500 years before present, before the Genghis Khan era, and significantly earlier than the split between Kalmyks and other Oirat speakers about 400 years ago. We also show that split between the dominant hg C variant among Buryats—C3-M407—and that of C3-F6379, took place in the Early Upper Palaeolithic, suggesting an extremely long duration for the dissipation of hg C3-M217 carriers across northern Eurasia, which cuts through today’s major linguistic phyla.
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- Natalia Balinova
- Federal State Budgetary Institution Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, 115522, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia. .,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics - Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, 450076, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics - Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics - Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia.,Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, 450076, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,The UMR 7206, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Site du Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 75116, France
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics - Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 107031, Russia
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- Kalmyk Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 358000, Elista, Russia
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- Anuchin Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 125009, Russia
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- Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Federal State Budgetary Institution Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, 115522, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Pathak AK, Kadian A, Kushniarevich A, Montinaro F, Mondal M, Ongaro L, Singh M, Kumar P, Rai N, Parik J, Metspalu E, Rootsi S, Pagani L, Kivisild T, Metspalu M, Chaubey G, Villems R. The Genetic Ancestry of Modern Indus Valley Populations from Northwest India. Am J Hum Genet 2018; 103:918-929. [PMID: 30526867 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.10.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2018] [Accepted: 10/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
The Indus Valley has been the backdrop for several historic and prehistoric population movements between South Asia and West Eurasia. However, the genetic structure of present-day populations from Northwest India is poorly characterized. Here we report new genome-wide genotype data for 45 modern individuals from four Northwest Indian populations, including the Ror, whose long-term occupation of the region can be traced back to the early Vedic scriptures. Our results suggest that although the genetic architecture of most Northwest Indian populations fits well on the broader North-South Indian genetic cline, culturally distinct groups such as the Ror stand out by being genetically more akin to populations living west of India; such populations include prehistorical and early historical ancient individuals from the Swat Valley near the Indus Valley. We argue that this affinity is more likely a result of genetic continuity since the Bronze Age migrations from the Steppe Belt than a result of recent admixture. The observed patterns of genetic relationships both with modern and ancient West Eurasians suggest that the Ror can be used as a proxy for a population descended from the Ancestral North Indian (ANI) population. Collectively, our results show that the Indus Valley populations are characterized by considerable genetic heterogeneity that has persisted over thousands of years.
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Tambets K, Yunusbayev B, Hudjashov G, Ilumäe AM, Rootsi S, Honkola T, Vesakoski O, Atkinson Q, Skoglund P, Kushniarevich A, Litvinov S, Reidla M, Metspalu E, Saag L, Rantanen T, Karmin M, Parik J, Zhadanov SI, Gubina M, Damba LD, Bermisheva M, Reisberg T, Dibirova K, Evseeva I, Nelis M, Klovins J, Metspalu A, Esko T, Balanovsky O, Balanovska E, Khusnutdinova EK, Osipova LP, Voevoda M, Villems R, Kivisild T, Metspalu M. Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations. Genome Biol 2018; 19:139. [PMID: 30241495 PMCID: PMC6151024 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-018-1522-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Accepted: 09/03/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The genetic origins of Uralic speakers from across a vast territory in the temperate zone of North Eurasia have remained elusive. Previous studies have shown contrasting proportions of Eastern and Western Eurasian ancestry in their mitochondrial and Y chromosomal gene pools. While the maternal lineages reflect by and large the geographic background of a given Uralic-speaking population, the frequency of Y chromosomes of Eastern Eurasian origin is distinctively high among European Uralic speakers. The autosomal variation of Uralic speakers, however, has not yet been studied comprehensively. RESULTS Here, we present a genome-wide analysis of 15 Uralic-speaking populations which cover all main groups of the linguistic family. We show that contemporary Uralic speakers are genetically very similar to their local geographical neighbours. However, when studying relationships among geographically distant populations, we find that most of the Uralic speakers and some of their neighbours share a genetic component of possibly Siberian origin. Additionally, we show that most Uralic speakers share significantly more genomic segments identity-by-descent with each other than with geographically equidistant speakers of other languages. We find that correlated genome-wide genetic and lexical distances among Uralic speakers suggest co-dispersion of genes and languages. Yet, we do not find long-range genetic ties between Estonians and Hungarians with their linguistic sisters that would distinguish them from their non-Uralic-speaking neighbours. CONCLUSIONS We show that most Uralic speakers share a distinct ancestry component of likely Siberian origin, which suggests that the spread of Uralic languages involved at least some demic component.
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- Kristiina Tambets
- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia.
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland
- Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, 51014, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland
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- School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
- Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, D-07745, Jena, Germany
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- The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London, NW1 1AT, UK
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, 220072, Republic of Belarus
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Radiology, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Research Institute of Medical and Social Problems and Control of the Healthcare Department of Tuva Republic, Kyzyl, 667003, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, 115478, Russia
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- Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russia
- Anthony Nolan, London, NW3 2NU, UK
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- Research Centre of Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, LV-1067, Latvia
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- Research Centre of Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Research Centre of Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, 115478, Russia
- Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, RAS, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, 115478, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, 450054, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
- Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
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- Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
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Eichstaedt C, Pagani L, Antao T, Inchley C, Cardona A, Mörseburg A, Clemente F, Sluckin T, Metspalu E, Mitt M, Mägi R, Hudjashov G, Metspalu M, Mormina M, Jacobs G, Kivisild T. New evidence of genetic adaptation to high altitude in Andean populations. Genes Environ 2018. [DOI: 10.1183/13993003.congress-2018.pa1274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Šarac J, Havaš Auguštin D, Metspalu E, Novokmet N, Missoni S, Rudan P. MATERNAL GENETIC PROFILE OF SERBIAN AND MONTENEGRIN POPULATIONS FROM SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE. GenApp 2018. [DOI: 10.31383/ga.vol1iss2pp14-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Significant mtDNA variation in Southeastern Europe (SEE) reflects the turbulent and complex demographic history of the region, influenced by gene flow from various parts of Eurasia and a long history of intermixing. In this study we present the maternal genetic profile of the Serbian and Montenegrin populations based on the high resolution analysis of 258 mtDNAs, 119 samples from Serbia and 139 samples from Montenegro. Besides the evidence of minor gene flow from distant central/northeastern Asia, the majority of haplogroups place these populations in the broader genetic landscape of Southeastern Europe, close to their neighbors.
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Behar DM, Saag L, Karmin M, Gover MG, Wexler JD, Sanchez LF, Greenspan E, Kushniarevich A, Davydenko O, Sahakyan H, Yepiskoposyan L, Boattini A, Sarno S, Pagani L, Carmi S, Tzur S, Metspalu E, Bormans C, Skorecki K, Metspalu M, Rootsi S, Villems R. The genetic variation in the R1a clade among the Ashkenazi Levites' Y chromosome. Sci Rep 2017; 7:14969. [PMID: 29097670 PMCID: PMC5668307 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14761-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 10/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Approximately 300,000 men around the globe self-identify as Ashkenazi Levites, of whom two thirds were previously shown to descend from a single male. The paucity of whole Y-chromosome sequences precluded conclusive identification of this ancestor's age, geographic origin and migration patterns. Here, we report the variation of 486 Y-chromosomes within the Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi Levite R1a clade, other Ashkenazi Jewish paternal lineages, as well as non-Levite Jewish and non-Jewish R1a samples. Cumulatively, the emerging profile is of a Middle Eastern ancestor, self-affiliating as Levite, and carrying the highly resolved R1a-Y2619 lineage, which was likely a minor haplogroup among the Hebrews. A star-like phylogeny, coalescing similarly to other Ashkenazi paternal lineages, ~1,743 ybp, suggests it to be one of the Ashkenazi paternal founders; to have expanded as part of the overall Ashkenazi demographic expansion, without special relation to the Levite affiliation; and to have subsequently spread to non-Ashkenazi Levites.
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- Doron M Behar
- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia. .,Genomic Research Center, Gene by Gene, Houston, 77008, Texas, USA.
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Independent Genetic Genealogy Researcher, Savyon, 5690500, Israel
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 220072, Minsk, Belarus
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- Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 220072, Minsk, Belarus
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia
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- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, 40126, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, 40126, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,APE Lab, Dept. of Biology, University of Padova, 35121, Padova, Italy
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- Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9112102, Israel
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- Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9112102, Israel.,Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, 3109601, Israel
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Genomic Research Center, Gene by Gene, Houston, 77008, Texas, USA
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- Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, 3109601, Israel.,Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3109601, Israel
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Chaubey G, Metspalu M, Karmin M, Thangaraj K, Rootsi S, Parik J, Solnik A, Rani DS, Singh VK, Naidu BP, Reddy AG, Metspalu E, Singh L, Kivisild T, Villems R. Language Shift by Indigenous Population: A Model Genetic Study in South Asia. INT J HUM GENET 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/09723757.2008.11886018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Gyaneshwer Chaubey
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Leverhulme Centre of Human Evolutionary Studies, The Henry Wellcome Building, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, UK
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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Saag L, Varul L, Scheib CL, Stenderup J, Allentoft ME, Saag L, Pagani L, Reidla M, Tambets K, Metspalu E, Kriiska A, Willerslev E, Kivisild T, Metspalu M. Extensive Farming in Estonia Started through a Sex-Biased Migration from the Steppe. Curr Biol 2017; 27:2185-2193.e6. [PMID: 28712569 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Revised: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming in Europe was brought upon by arrival of new people carrying novel material culture and genetic ancestry. The exact nature and scale of the transition-both material and genetic-varied in different parts of Europe [1-7]. Farming-based economies appear relatively late in Northeast Europe, and the extent to which they involve change in genetic ancestry is not fully understood due to the lack of relevant ancient DNA data. Here we present the results from new low-coverage whole-genome shotgun sequence data from five hunter-gatherers and five first farmers of Estonia whose remains date to 4,500 to 6,300 years before present. We find evidence of significant differences between the two groups in the composition of autosomal as well as mtDNA, X chromosome, and Y chromosome ancestries. We find that Estonian hunter-gatherers of Comb Ceramic culture are closest to Eastern hunter-gatherers, which is in contrast to earlier hunter-gatherers from the Baltics, who are close to Western hunter-gatherers [8, 9]. The Estonian first farmers of Corded Ware culture show high similarity in their autosomes with European hunter-gatherers, Steppe Eneolithic and Bronze Age populations, and European Late Neolithic/Bronze Age populations, while their X chromosomes are in addition equally closely related to European and Anatolian and Levantine early farmers. These findings suggest that the shift to intensive cultivation and animal husbandry in Estonia was triggered by the arrival of new people with predominantly Steppe ancestry but whose ancestors had undergone sex-specific admixture with early farmers with Anatolian ancestry.
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- Lehti Saag
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia.
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- School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallinn 10120, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51014, Estonia
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Estonian Biocentre, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK
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Chaubey G, Ayub Q, Rai N, Prakash S, Mushrif-Tripathy V, Mezzavilla M, Pathak AK, Tamang R, Firasat S, Reidla M, Karmin M, Rani DS, Reddy AG, Parik J, Metspalu E, Rootsi S, Dalal K, Khaliq S, Mehdi SQ, Singh L, Metspalu M, Kivisild T, Tyler-Smith C, Villems R, Thangaraj K. "Like sugar in milk": reconstructing the genetic history of the Parsi population. Genome Biol 2017; 18:110. [PMID: 28615043 PMCID: PMC5470188 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1244-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The Parsis are one of the smallest religious communities in the world. To understand the population structure and demographic history of this group in detail, we analyzed Indian and Pakistani Parsi populations using high-resolution genetic variation data on autosomal and uniparental loci (Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA). Additionally, we also assayed mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms among ancient Parsi DNA samples excavated from Sanjan, in present day Gujarat, the place of their original settlement in India. RESULTS Among present-day populations, the Parsis are genetically closest to Iranian and the Caucasus populations rather than their South Asian neighbors. They also share the highest number of haplotypes with present-day Iranians and we estimate that the admixture of the Parsis with Indian populations occurred ~1,200 years ago. Enriched homozygosity in the Parsi reflects their recent isolation and inbreeding. We also observed 48% South-Asian-specific mitochondrial lineages among the ancient samples, which might have resulted from the assimilation of local females during the initial settlement. Finally, we show that Parsis are genetically closer to Neolithic Iranians than to modern Iranians, who have witnessed a more recent wave of admixture from the Near East. CONCLUSIONS Our results are consistent with the historically-recorded migration of the Parsi populations to South Asia in the 7th century and in agreement with their assimilation into the Indian sub-continent's population and cultural milieu "like sugar in milk". Moreover, in a wider context our results support a major demographic transition in West Asia due to the Islamic conquest.
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- Gyaneshwer Chaubey
- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Riia23b, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK.
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- CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, 500007, India.,Present address: Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, 226007, India
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- CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, 500007, India
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- Department of Archaeology, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, 411006, India
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Riia23b, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 700073, India
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- Centre for Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, 74200, Pakistan
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Riia23b, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Riia23b, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
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- CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, 500007, India
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- CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, 500007, India
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Riia23b, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Riia23b, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Riia23b, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Centre for Archaeology (CfA), Centre for Extra Mural Studies (CEMS) University of Mumbai (Kalina Campus) Vidyanagri, Santacruz E Mumbai, 400098, India
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- Department of Human Genetics & Molecular Biology, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
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- Centre for Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, 74200, Pakistan
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- Genome foundation, C/o Prasad Hospital, Nacharam, Hyderabad, 500076, India
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Riia23b, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Riia23b, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Riia23b, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Inchley CE, Larbey CDA, Shwan NAA, Pagani L, Saag L, Antão T, Jacobs G, Hudjashov G, Metspalu E, Mitt M, Eichstaedt CA, Malyarchuk B, Derenko M, Wee J, Abdullah S, Ricaut FX, Mormina M, Mägi R, Villems R, Metspalu M, Jones MK, Armour JAL, Kivisild T. Selective sweep on human amylase genes postdates the split with Neanderthals. Sci Rep 2016; 6:37198. [PMID: 27853181 PMCID: PMC5112570 DOI: 10.1038/srep37198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 10/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Humans have more copies of amylase genes than other primates. It is still poorly understood, however, when the copy number expansion occurred and whether its spread was enhanced by selection. Here we assess amylase copy numbers in a global sample of 480 high coverage genomes and find that regions flanking the amylase locus show notable depression of genetic diversity both in African and non-African populations. Analysis of genetic variation in these regions supports the model of an early selective sweep in the human lineage after the split of humans from Neanderthals which led to the fixation of multiple copies of AMY1 in place of a single copy. We find evidence of multiple secondary losses of copy number with the highest frequency (52%) of a deletion of AMY2A and associated low copy number of AMY1 in Northeast Siberian populations whose diet has been low in starch content.
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- Charlotte E Inchley
- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, UK
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK.,Scientific Research Centre, University of Salahaddin, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, UK.,Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, UK.,Thoraxclinic at the University Hospital Heidelberg, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Centre, Singapore
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- Evolutionary Medicine group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, UMR 5288, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Winchester, Sparkford Road, Winchester SO22 4NR, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, 51010, Estonia.,Estonian Academy of Sciences, 10130 Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3QG, UK.,Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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Mallick S, Li H, Lipson M, Mathieson I, Gymrek M, Racimo F, Zhao M, Chennagiri N, Nordenfelt S, Tandon A, Skoglund P, Lazaridis I, Sankararaman S, Fu Q, Rohland N, Renaud G, Erlich Y, Willems T, Gallo C, Spence JP, Song YS, Poletti G, Balloux F, van Driem G, de Knijff P, Romero IG, Jha AR, Behar DM, Bravi CM, Capelli C, Hervig T, Moreno-Estrada A, Posukh OL, Balanovska E, Balanovsky O, Karachanak-Yankova S, Sahakyan H, Toncheva D, Yepiskoposyan L, Tyler-Smith C, Xue Y, Abdullah MS, Ruiz-Linares A, Beall CM, Di Rienzo A, Jeong C, Starikovskaya EB, Metspalu E, Parik J, Villems R, Henn BM, Hodoglugil U, Mahley R, Sajantila A, Stamatoyannopoulos G, Wee JTS, Khusainova R, Khusnutdinova E, Litvinov S, Ayodo G, Comas D, Hammer MF, Kivisild T, Klitz W, Winkler CA, Labuda D, Bamshad M, Jorde LB, Tishkoff SA, Watkins WS, Metspalu M, Dryomov S, Sukernik R, Singh L, Thangaraj K, Pääbo S, Kelso J, Patterson N, Reich D. The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations. Nature 2016; 538:201-206. [PMID: 27654912 PMCID: PMC5161557 DOI: 10.1038/nature18964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 791] [Impact Index Per Article: 98.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/23/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Here we report the Simons Genome Diversity Project data set: high quality genomes from 300 individuals from 142 diverse populations. These genomes include at least 5.8 million base pairs that are not present in the human reference genome. Our analysis reveals key features of the landscape of human genome variation, including that the rate of accumulation of mutations has accelerated by about 5% in non-Africans compared to Africans since divergence. We show that the ancestors of some pairs of present-day human populations were substantially separated by 100,000 years ago, well before the archaeologically attested onset of behavioural modernity. We also demonstrate that indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andamanese do not derive substantial ancestry from an early dispersal of modern humans; instead, their modern human ancestry is consistent with coming from the same source as that of other non-Africans.
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- Swapan Mallick
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- New York Genome Center, New York, New York 10013, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3140, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IVPP, CAS, Beijing 100044, China
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- New York Genome Center, New York, New York 10013, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
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- New York Genome Center, New York, New York 10013, USA
- Computational and Systems Biology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Perú
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- Computational Biology Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Mathematics and Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Perú
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- Genetics Institute, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Institute of Linguistics, University of Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland
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- Department of Human and Clinical Genetics, Postzone S5-P, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, Netherlands
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637551 Singapore
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, 636921 Singapore
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Laboratorio de Genética Molecular Poblacional, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Celular (IMBICE), CCT-CONICET La Plata/CIC Buenos Aires/Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata B1906APO, Argentina
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- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen 5021, Norway
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- National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36821, Mexico
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow 115478, Russia
- Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Moscow 119991, Russia
- Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudniy 141700, Russia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, National Human Genome Center, Medical University Sofia, Sofia 1431, Bulgaria
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan 0014, Armenia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, National Human Genome Center, Medical University Sofia, Sofia 1431, Bulgaria
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- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan 0014, Armenia
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7125, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn 10130, Estonia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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- Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa 450054, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa 450074, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa 450054, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa 450074, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa 450054, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa 450074, Russia
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- Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Bondo 40601, Kenya
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- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08003, Spain
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- ARL Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- New York Genome Center, New York, New York 10013, USA
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- Basic Research Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- CHU Sainte-Justine, Pediatrics Departement, Université de Montréal, Québec H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98119, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
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- Departments of Genetics and Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Department of Paleolithic Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Altai State University, Barnaul 656000, Russia
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Pagani L, Lawson DJ, Jagoda E, Mörseburg A, Eriksson A, Mitt M, Clemente F, Hudjashov G, DeGiorgio M, Saag L, Wall JD, Cardona A, Mägi R, Wilson Sayres MA, Kaewert S, Inchley C, Scheib CL, Järve M, Karmin M, Jacobs GS, Antao T, Iliescu FM, Kushniarevich A, Ayub Q, Tyler-Smith C, Xue Y, Yunusbayev B, Tambets K, Mallick CB, Saag L, Pocheshkhova E, Andriadze G, Muller C, Westaway MC, Lambert DM, Zoraqi G, Turdikulova S, Dalimova D, Sabitov Z, Sultana GNN, Lachance J, Tishkoff S, Momynaliev K, Isakova J, Damba LD, Gubina M, Nymadawa P, Evseeva I, Atramentova L, Utevska O, Ricaut FX, Brucato N, Sudoyo H, Letellier T, Cox MP, Barashkov NA, Skaro V, Mulahasanovic L, Primorac D, Sahakyan H, Mormina M, Eichstaedt CA, Lichman DV, Abdullah S, Chaubey G, Wee JTS, Mihailov E, Karunas A, Litvinov S, Khusainova R, Ekomasova N, Akhmetova V, Khidiyatova I, Marjanović D, Yepiskoposyan L, Behar DM, Balanovska E, Metspalu A, Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Voevoda M, Fedorova SA, Osipova LP, Lahr MM, Gerbault P, Leavesley M, Migliano AB, Petraglia M, Balanovsky O, Khusnutdinova EK, Metspalu E, Thomas MG, Manica A, Nielsen R, Villems R, Willerslev E, Kivisild T, Metspalu M. Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia. Nature 2016; 538:238-242. [PMID: 27654910 PMCID: PMC5164938 DOI: 10.1038/nature19792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Luca Pagani
- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Integrative Systems Biology Lab, Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.,Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Institut de Biologie Computationnelle, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand.,Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Institute of Metabolic Science, Box 285, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, 85287 USA.,Center for Evolution and Medicine, The Biodesign Institute, Tempe, AZ, 85287 USA
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.,Institute for Complex Systems Simulation, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Scientific-Research Center of the Caucasian Ethnic Groups, St. Andrews Georgian University, Georgia
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- Center for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia
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- Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia
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- Center of Molecular Diagnosis and Genetic Research, University Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tirana, Albania
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Academy of Science, Republic of Uzbekistan
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Sciences (CARS), DNA Sequencing Research Laboratory, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6145, USA.,School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Departments of Genetics and Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russia.,Anthony Nolan, London, United Kingdom
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- V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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- Evolutionary Medicine group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, UMR 5288, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France
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- Evolutionary Medicine group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, UMR 5288, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France
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- Genome Diversity and Diseases Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Evolutionary Medicine group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, UMR 5288, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Scientific Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Russia.,Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Natural Sciences, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
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- Genos, DNA laboratory, Zagreb, Croatia.,University of Osijek, Medical School, Osijek, Croatia
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- St. Catherine Speciality Hospital, Zabok, Croatia.,Eberly College of Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.,University of Split, Medical School, Split, Croatia.,University of Osijek, Medical School, Osijek, Croatia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia, 7 Hasratyan Street, 0014, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Winchester, Sparkford Road, Winchester SO22 4NR, UK
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Thoraxclinic at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, Russia.,Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, Russia.,Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia.,Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, Russia.,Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, Russia.,Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Genetics and Bioengineering. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.,Institute for Anthropological Researches, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia, 7 Hasratyan Street, 0014, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 115478, Russia
| | - Andres Metspalu
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia
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- Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.,Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Natural Sciences, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia.,Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Scientific Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Papua New Guinea, University PO Box 320, NCD, Papua New Guinea.,College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns QLD 4870, Australia
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 115478, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Ufa, Russia.,Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley 94720, CA, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.,Estonian Academy of Sciences, 6 Kohtu Street, Tallinn 10130, Estonia
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- Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.,Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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Pankratov V, Litvinov S, Kassian A, Shulhin D, Tchebotarev L, Yunusbayev B, Möls M, Sahakyan H, Yepiskoposyan L, Rootsi S, Metspalu E, Golubenko M, Ekomasova N, Akhatova F, Khusnutdinova E, Heyer E, Endicott P, Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Metspalu M, Davydenko O, Villems R, Kushniarevich A. East Eurasian ancestry in the middle of Europe: genetic footprints of Steppe nomads in the genomes of Belarusian Lipka Tatars. Sci Rep 2016; 6:30197. [PMID: 27453128 PMCID: PMC4958967 DOI: 10.1038/srep30197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Medieval era encounters of nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe and largely sedentary East Europeans had a variety of demographic and cultural consequences. Amongst these outcomes was the emergence of the Lipka Tatars—a Slavic-speaking Sunni-Muslim minority residing in modern Belarus, Lithuania and Poland, whose ancestors arrived in these territories via several migration waves, mainly from the Golden Horde. Our results show that Belarusian Lipka Tatars share a substantial part of their gene pool with Europeans as indicated by their Y-chromosomal, mitochondrial and autosomal DNA variation. Nevertheless, Belarusian Lipkas still retain a strong genetic signal of their nomadic ancestry, witnessed by the presence of common Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA variants as well as autosomal segments identical by descent between Lipkas and East Eurasians from temperate and northern regions. Hence, we document Lipka Tatars as a unique example of former Medieval migrants into Central Europe, who became sedentary, changed language to Slavic, yet preserved their faith and retained, both uni- and bi-parentally, a clear genetic echo of a complex population interplay throughout the Eurasian Steppe Belt, extending from Central Europe to northern China.
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- Vasili Pankratov
- Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.,Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia
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- Belarusian State University, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Department of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Minsk, Belarus
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- Center of analytical and genetic engineering studies, Institute of Microbiology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
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- Institute of Mathematical Statistics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia
| | - Levon Yepiskoposyan
- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- The Research Institute for Medical Genetics, 634050, Tomsk, Russia
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- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine of Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine of Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.,Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.,Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine of Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, UMR 7206 CNRS, MNHN, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Universités, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
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- Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, UMR 7206 CNRS, MNHN, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Universités, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia
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- Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Alena Kushniarevich
- Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.,Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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De Fanti S, Barbieri C, Sarno S, Sevini F, Vianello D, Tamm E, Metspalu E, van Oven M, Hübner A, Sazzini M, Franceschi C, Pettener D, Luiselli D. Fine Dissection of Human Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup HV Lineages Reveals Paleolithic Signatures from European Glacial Refugia. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0144391. [PMID: 26640946 PMCID: PMC4671665 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2015] [Accepted: 11/17/2015] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Genetic signatures from the Paleolithic inhabitants of Eurasia can be traced from the early divergent mitochondrial DNA lineages still present in contemporary human populations. Previous studies already suggested a pre-Neolithic diffusion of mitochondrial haplogroup HV*(xH,V) lineages, a relatively rare class of mtDNA types that includes parallel branches mainly distributed across Europe and West Asia with a certain degree of structure. Up till now, variation within haplogroup HV was addressed mainly by analyzing sequence data from the mtDNA control region, except for specific sub-branches, such as HV4 or the widely distributed haplogroups H and V. In this study, we present a revised HV topology based on full mtDNA genome data, and we include a comprehensive dataset consisting of 316 complete mtDNA sequences including 60 new samples from the Italian peninsula, a previously underrepresented geographic area. We highlight points of instability in the particular topology of this haplogroup, reconstructed with BEAST-generated trees and networks. We also confirm a major lineage expansion that probably followed the Late Glacial Maximum and preceded Neolithic population movements. We finally observe that Italy harbors a reservoir of mtDNA diversity, with deep-rooting HV lineages often related to sequences present in the Caucasus and the Middle East. The resulting hypothesis of a glacial refugium in Southern Italy has implications for the understanding of late Paleolithic population movements and is discussed within the archaeological cultural shifts occurred over the entire continent.
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- Sara De Fanti
- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- * E-mail: (CB); (DL)
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- C.I.G. Interdepartmental Centre L. Galvani for Integrated Studies on Bioinformatics, Biophysics and Biocomplexity, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- C.I.G. Interdepartmental Centre L. Galvani for Integrated Studies on Bioinformatics, Biophysics and Biocomplexity, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- C.I.G. Interdepartmental Centre L. Galvani for Integrated Studies on Bioinformatics, Biophysics and Biocomplexity, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- IRCCS, Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Ospedale Bellaria, Bologna, Italy
- CNR, Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (ISOF), Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- * E-mail: (CB); (DL)
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Behar DM, Metspalu M, Baran Y, Kopelman NM, Yunusbayev B, Gladstein A, Tzur S, Sahakyan H, Bahmanimehr A, Yepiskoposyan L, Tambets K, Khusnutdinova EK, Kushniarevich A, Balanovsky O, Balanovsky E, Kovacevic L, Marjanovic D, Mihailov E, Kouvatsi A, Triantaphyllidis C, King RJ, Semino O, Torroni A, Hammer MF, Metspalu E, Skorecki K, Rosset S, Halperin E, Villems R, Rosenberg NA. No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Ashkenazi Jews. Hum Biol 2015; 85:859-900. [PMID: 25079123 DOI: 10.3378/027.085.0604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
The origin and history of the Ashkenazi Jewish population have long been of great interest, and advances in high-throughput genetic analysis have recently provided a new approach for investigating these topics. We and others have argued on the basis of genome-wide data that the Ashkenazi Jewish population derives its ancestry from a combination of sources tracing to both Europe and the Middle East. It has been claimed, however, through a reanalysis of some of our data, that a large part of the ancestry of the Ashkenazi population originates with the Khazars, a Turkic-speaking group that lived to the north of the Caucasus region ~1,000 years ago. Because the Khazar population has left no obvious modern descendants that could enable a clear test for a contribution to Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, the Khazar hypothesis has been difficult to examine using genetics. Furthermore, because only limited genetic data have been available from the Caucasus region, and because these data have been concentrated in populations that are genetically close to populations from the Middle East, the attribution of any signal of Ashkenazi-Caucasus genetic similarity to Khazar ancestry rather than shared ancestral Middle Eastern ancestry has been problematic. Here, through integration of genotypes from newly collected samples with data from several of our past studies, we have assembled the largest data set available to date for assessment of Ashkenazi Jewish genetic origins. This data set contains genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 1,774 samples from 106 Jewish and non-Jewish populations that span the possible regions of potential Ashkenazi ancestry: Europe, the Middle East, and the region historically associated with the Khazar Khaganate. The data set includes 261 samples from 15 populations from the Caucasus region and the region directly to its north, samples that have not previously been included alongside Ashkenazi Jewish samples in genomic studies. Employing a variety of standard techniques for the analysis of population-genetic structure, we found that Ashkenazi Jews share the greatest genetic ancestry with other Jewish populations and, among non-Jewish populations, with groups from Europe and the Middle East. No particular similarity of Ashkenazi Jews to populations from the Caucasus is evident, particularly populations that most closely represent the Khazar region. Thus, analysis of Ashkenazi Jews together with a large sample from the region of the Khazar Khaganate corroborates the earlier results that Ashkenazi Jews derive their ancestry primarily from populations of the Middle East and Europe, that they possess considerable shared ancestry with other Jewish populations, and that there is no indication of a significant genetic contribution either from within or from north of the Caucasus region.
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- Doron M Behar
- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel AND Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu, Estonia AND Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. AND Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
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- Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Porter School of Environmental Studies, Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu, Estonia. AND Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
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- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu, Estonia. AND Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu, Estonia. AND Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia. AND Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. AND Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. AND Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. AND Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. AND Genos doo, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Lazzaro Spallanzani," Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy. AND Centro Interdipartimentale "Studi di Genere," Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Lazzaro Spallanzani," Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- ARL Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel. AND Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Statistics and Operations Research, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. AND Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel- Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. AND International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu, Estonia. AND Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. AND Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
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Sudmant PH, Mallick S, Nelson BJ, Hormozdiari F, Krumm N, Huddleston J, Coe BP, Baker C, Nordenfelt S, Bamshad M, Jorde LB, Posukh OL, Sahakyan H, Watkins WS, Yepiskoposyan L, Abdullah MS, Bravi CM, Capelli C, Hervig T, Wee JTS, Tyler-Smith C, van Driem G, Romero IG, Jha AR, Karachanak-Yankova S, Toncheva D, Comas D, Henn B, Kivisild T, Ruiz-Linares A, Sajantila A, Metspalu E, Parik J, Villems R, Starikovskaya EB, Ayodo G, Beall CM, Di Rienzo A, Hammer MF, Khusainova R, Khusnutdinova E, Klitz W, Winkler C, Labuda D, Metspalu M, Tishkoff SA, Dryomov S, Sukernik R, Patterson N, Reich D, Eichler EE. Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation. Science 2015; 349:aab3761. [PMID: 26249230 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 255] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2015] [Accepted: 07/29/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
In order to explore the diversity and selective signatures of duplication and deletion human copy-number variants (CNVs), we sequenced 236 individuals from 125 distinct human populations. We observed that duplications exhibit fundamentally different population genetic and selective signatures than deletions and are more likely to be stratified between human populations. Through reconstruction of the ancestral human genome, we identify megabases of DNA lost in different human lineages and pinpoint large duplications that introgressed from the extinct Denisova lineage now found at high frequency exclusively in Oceanic populations. We find that the proportion of CNV base pairs to single-nucleotide-variant base pairs is greater among non-Africans than it is among African populations, but we conclude that this difference is likely due to unique aspects of non-African population history as opposed to differences in CNV load.
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- Peter H Sudmant
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98119, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia. Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan 0014, Armenia
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- Department of Human Genetics, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan 0014, Armenia
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- Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha (RIPAS) Hospital, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
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- Laboratorio de Genética Molecular Poblacional, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Celular (IMBICE), Centro Científico y Tecnológico-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CCT-CONICET) and Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CICPBA), La Plata B1906APO, Argentina
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- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen 5021, Norway
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
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- Institute of Linguistics, University of Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, National Human Genome Center, Medical University Sofia, Sofia 1431, Bulgaria
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- Department of Medical Genetics, National Human Genome Center, Medical University Sofia, Sofia 1431, Bulgaria
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- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva [Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universitat Pompeu Fabra (CSIC-UPF)], Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, UPF, Barcelona 08003, Spain
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Forensic Medicine, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia. University of Tartu, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Tartu 5101, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Center for Global Health and Child Development, Kisumu 40100, Kenya
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- Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7125, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa 450054, Russia. Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa 450074, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa 450054, Russia. Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa 450074, Russia
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- Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA
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- Basic Research Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Leidos Biomedical Research, Incorporated, Frederick National Laboratory, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Sainte-Justine, Département de Pédiatrie, Université de Montréal, QC H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Departments of Biology and Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. Department of Paleolithic Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. Altai State University, Barnaul 656000, Russia
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. 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 Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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Raghavan M, Steinrücken M, Harris K, Schiffels S, Rasmussen S, DeGiorgio M, Albrechtsen A, Valdiosera C, Ávila-Arcos MC, Malaspinas AS, Eriksson A, Moltke I, Metspalu M, Homburger JR, Wall J, Cornejo OE, Moreno-Mayar JV, Korneliussen TS, Pierre T, Rasmussen M, Campos PF, de Barros Damgaard P, Allentoft ME, Lindo J, Metspalu E, Rodríguez-Varela R, Mansilla J, Henrickson C, Seguin-Orlando A, Malmström H, Stafford T, Shringarpure SS, Moreno-Estrada A, Karmin M, Tambets K, Bergström A, Xue Y, Warmuth V, Friend AD, Singarayer J, Valdes P, Balloux F, Leboreiro I, Vera JL, Rangel-Villalobos H, Pettener D, Luiselli D, Davis LG, Heyer E, Zollikofer CPE, Ponce de León MS, Smith CI, Grimes V, Pike KA, Deal M, Fuller BT, Arriaza B, Standen V, Luz MF, Ricaut F, Guidon N, Osipova L, Voevoda MI, Posukh OL, Balanovsky O, Lavryashina M, Bogunov Y, Khusnutdinova E, Gubina M, Balanovska E, Fedorova S, Litvinov S, Malyarchuk B, Derenko M, Mosher MJ, Archer D, Cybulski J, Petzelt B, Mitchell J, Worl R, Norman PJ, Parham P, Kemp BM, Kivisild T, Tyler-Smith C, Sandhu MS, Crawford M, Villems R, Smith DG, Waters MR, Goebel T, Johnson JR, Malhi RS, Jakobsson M, Meltzer DJ, Manica A, Durbin R, Bustamante CD, Song YS, Nielsen R, Willerslev E. POPULATION GENETICS. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans. Science 2015. [PMID: 26198033 DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 252] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
How and when the Americas were populated remains contentious. Using ancient and modern genome-wide data, we found that the ancestors of all present-day Native Americans, including Athabascans and Amerindians, entered the Americas as a single migration wave from Siberia no earlier than 23 thousand years ago (ka) and after no more than an 8000-year isolation period in Beringia. After their arrival to the Americas, ancestral Native Americans diversified into two basal genetic branches around 13 ka, one that is now dispersed across North and South America and the other restricted to North America. Subsequent gene flow resulted in some Native Americans sharing ancestry with present-day East Asians (including Siberians) and, more distantly, Australo-Melanesians. Putative "Paleoamerican" relict populations, including the historical Mexican Pericúes and South American Fuego-Patagonians, are not directly related to modern Australo-Melanesians as suggested by the Paleoamerican Model.
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- Maanasa Raghavan
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, Building 208, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Departments of Biology and Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, 502 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr. Lane Bldg Room L331, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.,Integrative Systems Biology Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr. Lane Bldg Room L331, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, PO Box 644236, Heald 429, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr. Lane Bldg Room L331, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.,CIMAR/CIIMAR, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Rua dos Bragas 289, 4050-123 Porto, Portugal
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 607 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Centro Mixto, Universidad Complutense de Madrid-Instituto de Salud Carlos III de Evolución y Comportamiento Humano, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Moneda 13, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06060 Mexico Mexico City, Mexico
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- University of Utah, Department of Anthropology, 270 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.,AMS 14C Dating Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr. Lane Bldg Room L331, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr. Lane Bldg Room L331, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad (LANGEBIO), CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato 36821, Mexico
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- UCL Genetics Institute, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum, Norbyvägen 18D, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK
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- Centre for Past Climate Change and Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading, UK
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- School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
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- Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Moneda 13, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06060 Mexico Mexico City, Mexico
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- Escuela Nacional de AntropologÍa e Historia, Periférico Sur y Zapote s/n. Colonia Isidro Fabela, Tlalpan, Isidro Fabela, 14030 Mexico City, Mexico
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali (BiGeA), Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali (BiGeA), Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, 238 Waldo Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331 USA
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- Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Université Paris 7 Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Sorbonne Universités, Unité Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie (UMR7206), Paris, France
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- Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Department of Archaeology, Memorial University, Queen's College, 210 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7, Canada.,Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Memorial University, Queen's College, 210 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7, Canada
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- Department of Archaeology, Memorial University, Queen's College, 210 Prince Philip Drive, St. John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7, Canada
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- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Keck CCAMS Group, B321 Croul Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, 18 de Septiembre 2222, Carsilla 6-D Arica, Chile
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- Departamento de Antropologia, Universidad de Tarapacá, 18 de Septiembre 2222. Casilla 6-D Arica, Chile
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- Fundação Museu do Homem Americano, Centro Cultural Sérgio Motta, Campestre, 64770-000 Sao Raimundo Nonato, Brazil
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagérie de Synthèse UMR-5288, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 31073 Toulouse, France
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- Fundação Museu do Homem Americano, Centro Cultural Sérgio Motta, Campestre, 64770-000 Sao Raimundo Nonato, Brazil
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.,Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of RAS, 175/1 ul. B. Bogatkova, Novosibirsk 630089, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University, Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Bioinformatics, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.,Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Gubkina 3, 119333 Moscow, Russia.,Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moskvorechie 1, 115478 Moscow, Russia
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Gubkina 3, 119333 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Prospekt Oktyabrya 71, 450054 Ufa, Russia.,Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Zaki Validi 32, 450076 Ufa, Russia
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- Fundação Museu do Homem Americano, Centro Cultural Sérgio Motta, Campestre, 64770-000 Sao Raimundo Nonato, Brazil
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moskvorechie 1, 115478 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Scientific Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Sergelyahskoe Shosse 4, 677010 Yakutsk, Russia.,Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Natural Sciences, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, 677000 Yakutsk, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia.,Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of RAS, Prospekt Oktyabrya 71, 450054 Ufa, Russia
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street 18, Magadan 685000, Russia
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street 18, Magadan 685000, Russia
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- Department of Anthropology, Western Washington University, Bellingham Washington 98225, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Northwest Community College, 353 Fifth Street, Prince Rupert, British Columbia V8J 3L6, Canada
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- Canadian Museum of History, 100 Rue Laurier, Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0M8, Canada.,University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada.,Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Metlakatla Treaty Office, PO Box 224, Prince Rupert, BC, Canada V8J 3P6
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- Sealaska Heritage Institute, 105 S. Seward Street, Juneau, Alaska 99801, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, D100 Fairchild Science Building, Stanford, California 94305-5126, USA
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- Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, D100 Fairchild Science Building, Stanford, California 94305-5126, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, PO Box 644236, Heald 429, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA.,Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman Washington 99163, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia.,Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Henry Wellcome Building, Fitzwilliam Street, CB2 1QH, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK.,Dept of Medicine, University of Cambridge, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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- Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd., 622 Fraser Hall, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology Group, Tartu 51010, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Molecular Anthropology Laboratory, 209 Young Hall, Department of Anthropology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4352, USA.,Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4352, USA.,Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4352, USA
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- Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4352, USA
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- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 607 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.,Carle R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, 61801, USA
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA
| | - Andrea Manica
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
| | - Richard Durbin
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr. Lane Bldg Room L331, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Bldg #3140, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Bldg #3140, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Yunusbayev B, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Valeev A, Litvinov S, Valiev R, Akhmetova V, Balanovska E, Balanovsky O, Turdikulova S, Dalimova D, Nymadawa P, Bahmanimehr A, Sahakyan H, Tambets K, Fedorova S, Barashkov N, Khidiyatova I, Mihailov E, Khusainova R, Damba L, Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Osipova L, Voevoda M, Yepiskoposyan L, Kivisild T, Khusnutdinova E, Villems R. The genetic legacy of the expansion of Turkic-speaking nomads across Eurasia. PLoS Genet 2015; 11:e1005068. [PMID: 25898006 PMCID: PMC4405460 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2013] [Accepted: 02/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
The Turkic peoples represent a diverse collection of ethnic groups defined by the Turkic languages. These groups have dispersed across a vast area, including Siberia, Northwest China, Central Asia, East Europe, the Caucasus, Anatolia, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. The origin and early dispersal history of the Turkic peoples is disputed, with candidates for their ancient homeland ranging from the Transcaspian steppe to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. Previous genetic studies have not identified a clear-cut unifying genetic signal for the Turkic peoples, which lends support for language replacement rather than demic diffusion as the model for the Turkic language’s expansion. We addressed the genetic origin of 373 individuals from 22 Turkic-speaking populations, representing their current geographic range, by analyzing genome-wide high-density genotype data. In agreement with the elite dominance model of language expansion most of the Turkic peoples studied genetically resemble their geographic neighbors. However, western Turkic peoples sampled across West Eurasia shared an excess of long chromosomal tracts that are identical by descent (IBD) with populations from present-day South Siberia and Mongolia (SSM), an area where historians center a series of early Turkic and non-Turkic steppe polities. While SSM matching IBD tracts (> 1cM) are also observed in non-Turkic populations, Turkic peoples demonstrate a higher percentage of such tracts (p-values ≤ 0.01) compared to their non-Turkic neighbors. Finally, we used the ALDER method and inferred admixture dates (~9th–17th centuries) that overlap with the Turkic migrations of the 5th–16th centuries. Thus, our results indicate historical admixture among Turkic peoples, and the recent shared ancestry with modern populations in SSM supports one of the hypothesized homelands for their nomadic Turkic and related Mongolic ancestors. Centuries of nomadic migrations have ultimately resulted in the distribution of Turkic languages over a large area ranging from Siberia, across Central Asia to Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Despite the profound cultural impact left by these nomadic peoples, little is known about their prehistoric origins. Moreover, because contemporary Turkic speakers tend to genetically resemble their geographic neighbors, it is not clear whether their nomadic ancestors left an identifiable genetic trace. In this study, we show that Turkic-speaking peoples sampled across the Middle East, Caucasus, East Europe, and Central Asia share varying proportions of Asian ancestry that originate in a single area, southern Siberia and Mongolia. Mongolic- and Turkic-speaking populations from this area bear an unusually high number of long chromosomal tracts that are identical by descent with Turkic peoples from across west Eurasia. Admixture induced linkage disequilibrium decay across chromosomes in these populations indicates that admixture occurred during the 9th–17th centuries, in agreement with the historically recorded Turkic nomadic migrations and later Mongol expansion. Thus, our findings reveal genetic traces of recent large-scale nomadic migrations and map their source to a previously hypothesized area of Mongolia and southern Siberia.
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- Bayazit Yunusbayev
- Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- * E-mail: ,
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- Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, RAMS, Moscow, Russia
- Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, RAS, Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratory of Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- Laboratory of Genomics, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Gene Technology Workgroup, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Institute of Internal Medicine, SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Internal Medicine, SB RAMS, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Evolutionary Biology group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
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Karmin M, Saag L, Vicente M, Wilson Sayres MA, Järve M, Talas UG, Rootsi S, Ilumäe AM, Mägi R, Mitt M, Pagani L, Puurand T, Faltyskova Z, Clemente F, Cardona A, Metspalu E, Sahakyan H, Yunusbayev B, Hudjashov G, DeGiorgio M, Loogväli EL, Eichstaedt C, Eelmets M, Chaubey G, Tambets K, Litvinov S, Mormina M, Xue Y, Ayub Q, Zoraqi G, Korneliussen TS, Akhatova F, Lachance J, Tishkoff S, Momynaliev K, Ricaut FX, Kusuma P, Razafindrazaka H, Pierron D, Cox MP, Sultana GNN, Willerslev R, Muller C, Westaway M, Lambert D, Skaro V, Kovačevic L, Turdikulova S, Dalimova D, Khusainova R, Trofimova N, Akhmetova V, Khidiyatova I, Lichman DV, Isakova J, Pocheshkhova E, Sabitov Z, Barashkov NA, Nymadawa P, Mihailov E, Seng JWT, Evseeva I, Migliano AB, Abdullah S, Andriadze G, Primorac D, Atramentova L, Utevska O, Yepiskoposyan L, Marjanovic D, Kushniarevich A, Behar DM, Gilissen C, Vissers L, Veltman JA, Balanovska E, Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Metspalu A, Fedorova S, Eriksson A, Manica A, Mendez FL, Karafet TM, Veeramah KR, Bradman N, Hammer MF, Osipova LP, Balanovsky O, Khusnutdinova EK, Johnsen K, Remm M, Thomas MG, Tyler-Smith C, Underhill PA, Willerslev E, Nielsen R, Metspalu M, Villems R, Kivisild T. A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture. Genome Res 2015; 25:459-66. [PMID: 25770088 PMCID: PMC4381518 DOI: 10.1101/gr.186684.114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2014] [Accepted: 02/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
It is commonly thought that human genetic diversity in non-African populations was shaped primarily by an out-of-Africa dispersal 50–100 thousand yr ago (kya). Here, we present a study of 456 geographically diverse high-coverage Y chromosome sequences, including 299 newly reported samples. Applying ancient DNA calibration, we date the Y-chromosomal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) in Africa at 254 (95% CI 192–307) kya and detect a cluster of major non-African founder haplogroups in a narrow time interval at 47–52 kya, consistent with a rapid initial colonization model of Eurasia and Oceania after the out-of-Africa bottleneck. In contrast to demographic reconstructions based on mtDNA, we infer a second strong bottleneck in Y-chromosome lineages dating to the last 10 ky. We hypothesize that this bottleneck is caused by cultural changes affecting variance of reproductive success among males.
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- Monika Karmin
- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia;
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA; School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute, Tempe, Arizona 85287-5001, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, United Kingdom
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, United Kingdom
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, United Kingdom
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand
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- Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, United Kingdom
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Winchester, Winchester, SO22 4NR, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Center of Molecular Diagnosis and Genetic Research, University Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tirana, ALB1005, Albania
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA; Center for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-1350, Denmark
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- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, 450074, Russia; Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008, Russia
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6145, USA; School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 30332, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6145, USA; Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6313, USA
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- Evolutionary Medicine Group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse 3, Toulouse, 31073, France
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- Evolutionary Medicine Group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse 3, Toulouse, 31073, France; Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, 10430, Indonesia
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- Evolutionary Medicine Group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse 3, Toulouse, 31073, France
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- Evolutionary Medicine Group, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Toulouse 3, Toulouse, 31073, France
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- Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442, New Zealand
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- Centre for Advanced Research in Sciences (CARS), DNA Sequencing Research Laboratory, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
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- Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK-8000, Denmark
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- Center for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-1350, Denmark
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- Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, 4111, Australia
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- Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, 4111, Australia
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- Genos, DNA Laboratory, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia; University of Osijek, Medical School, Osijek, 31000, Croatia
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Science, Tashkent, 100143, Uzbekistan
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Science, Tashkent, 100143, Uzbekistan
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia; Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, 450074, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia; Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, 450074, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, Bishkek, 720040, Kyrgyzstan
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- L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, 010008, Kazakhstan; Center for Life Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Scientific Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, 677010, Russia; Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Natural Sciences, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, 677000, Russia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russia; Anthony Nolan, London, NW3 2NU, United Kingdom
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- Scientific-Research Center of the Caucasian Ethnic Groups, St. Andrews Georgian University, Tbilisi, 0162, Georgia
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- University of Osijek, Medical School, Osijek, 31000, Croatia; St. Catherine Specialty Hospital, Zabok, 49210, Croatia; Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA; University of Split, Medical School, Split, 21000, Croatia
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- V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, 61022, Ukraine
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- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia
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- Genos, DNA Laboratory, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia; Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, International Burch University, Sarajevo, 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, 220072, Belarus
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, 106525 GA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, 106525 GA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, 106525 GA, The Netherlands
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 115478, Russia
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, 685000, Russia
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, 685000, Russia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Scientific Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, 677010, Russia; Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Natural Sciences, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, 677000, Russia
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom; Integrative Systems Biology Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5120, USA
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- ARL Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5245, USA
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- The Henry Stewart Group, London, WC1A 2HN, United Kingdom
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- ARL Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 115478, Russia; Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, 450054, Russia; Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, 450074, Russia
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- University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsøe, N-9038, Norway
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5120, USA
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- Center for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-1350, Denmark
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, 10130, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, 51010, Estonia; Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, United Kingdom;
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Juras A, Dabert M, Kushniarevich A, Malmström H, Raghavan M, Kosicki JZ, Metspalu E, Willerslev E, Piontek J. Ancient DNA reveals matrilineal continuity in present-day Poland over the last two millennia. PLoS One 2014; 9:e110839. [PMID: 25337992 PMCID: PMC4206425 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2014] [Accepted: 09/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
While numerous ancient human DNA datasets from across Europe have been published till date, modern-day Poland in particular, remains uninvestigated. Besides application in the reconstruction of continent-wide human history, data from this region would also contribute towards our understanding of the history of the Slavs, whose origin is hypothesized to be in East or Central Europe. Here, we present the first population-scale ancient human DNA study from the region of modern-day Poland by establishing mitochondrial DNA profiles for 23 samples dated to 200 BC – 500 AD (Roman Iron Age) and for 20 samples dated to 1000–1400 AD (Medieval Age). Our results show that mitochondrial DNA sequences from both periods belong to haplogroups that are characteristic of contemporary West Eurasia. Haplotype sharing analysis indicates that majority of the ancient haplotypes are widespread in some modern Europeans, including Poles. Notably, the Roman Iron Age samples share more rare haplotypes with Central and Northeast Europeans, whereas the Medieval Age samples share more rare haplotypes with East-Central and South-East Europeans, primarily Slavic populations. Our data demonstrates genetic continuity of certain matrilineages (H5a1 and N1a1a2) in the area of present-day Poland from at least the Roman Iron Age until present. As such, the maternal gene pool of present-day Poles, Czechs and Slovaks, categorized as Western Slavs, is likely to have descended from inhabitants of East-Central Europe during the Roman Iron Age.
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- Anna Juras
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
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- Molecular Biology Techniques Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
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Lazaridis I, Patterson N, Mittnik A, Renaud G, Mallick S, Kirsanow K, Sudmant PH, Schraiber JG, Castellano S, Lipson M, Berger B, Economou C, Bollongino R, Fu Q, Bos KI, Nordenfelt S, Li H, de Filippo C, Prüfer K, Sawyer S, Posth C, Haak W, Hallgren F, Fornander E, Rohland N, Delsate D, Francken M, Guinet JM, Wahl J, Ayodo G, Babiker HA, Bailliet G, Balanovska E, Balanovsky O, Barrantes R, Bedoya G, Ben-Ami H, Bene J, Berrada F, Bravi CM, Brisighelli F, Busby GBJ, Cali F, Churnosov M, Cole DEC, Corach D, Damba L, van Driem G, Dryomov S, Dugoujon JM, Fedorova SA, Gallego Romero I, Gubina M, Hammer M, Henn BM, Hervig T, Hodoglugil U, Jha AR, Karachanak-Yankova S, Khusainova R, Khusnutdinova E, Kittles R, Kivisild T, Klitz W, Kučinskas V, Kushniarevich A, Laredj L, Litvinov S, Loukidis T, Mahley RW, Melegh B, Metspalu E, Molina J, Mountain J, Näkkäläjärvi K, Nesheva D, Nyambo T, Osipova L, Parik J, Platonov F, Posukh O, Romano V, Rothhammer F, Rudan I, Ruizbakiev R, Sahakyan H, Sajantila A, Salas A, Starikovskaya EB, Tarekegn A, Toncheva D, Turdikulova S, Uktveryte I, Utevska O, Vasquez R, Villena M, Voevoda M, Winkler CA, Yepiskoposyan L, Zalloua P, Zemunik T, Cooper A, Capelli C, Thomas MG, Ruiz-Linares A, Tishkoff SA, Singh L, Thangaraj K, Villems R, Comas D, Sukernik R, Metspalu M, Meyer M, Eichler EE, Burger J, Slatkin M, Pääbo S, Kelso J, Reich D, Krause J. Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans. Nature 2014; 513:409-13. [PMID: 25230663 PMCID: PMC4170574 DOI: 10.1038/nature13673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 737] [Impact Index Per Article: 73.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Accepted: 07/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
We sequenced the genomes of a ~7,000 year old farmer from Germany and eight
~8,000 year old hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analyzed these and other
ancient genomes1–4 with 2,345 contemporary humans to show that most
present Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: West
European Hunter-Gatherers (WHG), who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near
Easterners; Ancient North Eurasians (ANE) related to Upper Paleolithic Siberians3, who contributed to both Europeans and Near
Easterners; and Early European Farmers (EEF), who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but
also harbored WHG-related ancestry. We model these populations’ deep relationships
and show that EEF had ~44% ancestry from a “Basal Eurasian”
population that split prior to the diversification of other non-African lineages.
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- Iosif Lazaridis
- 1] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. [2] Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72074, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- 1] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. [2] Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz D-55128, Germany
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- 1] Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. [2] Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3140, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- 1] Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. [2] Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, 114 18, Sweden
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- Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz D-55128, Germany
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- 1] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. [2] Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany. [3] Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IVPP, CAS, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72074, Germany
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- 1] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. [2] Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- 1] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. [2] Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72074, Germany
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA and Environment Institute, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- The Cultural Heritage Foundation, Västerås 722 12, Sweden
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- 1] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. [2] Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- 1] National Museum of Natural History, L-2160, Luxembourg. [2] National Center of Archaeological Research, National Museum of History and Art, L-2345, Luxembourg
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- Department of Paleoanthropology, Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen D-72070, Germany
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- State Office for Cultural Heritage Management Baden-Württemberg, Osteology, Konstanz D-78467, Germany
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- Center for Global Health and Child Development, Kisumu 40100, Kenya
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- 1] Institutes of Evolution, Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK. [2] Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, Alkhod, Muscat 123, Oman
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- Laboratorio de Genética Molecular Poblacional, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Celular (IMBICE), CCT-CONICET &CICPBA, La Plata, B1906APO, Argentina
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- 1] Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow 115478, Russia. [2] Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José 2060, Costa Rica
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- Institute of Biology, Research group GENMOL, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Szentagothai Research Center, University of Pécs, Pécs H-7624, Hungary
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- Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI), School of Science and Engineering, Ifrane 53000, Morocco
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- Laboratorio de Genética Molecular Poblacional, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Celular (IMBICE), CCT-CONICET &CICPBA, La Plata, B1906APO, Argentina
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- Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Legal Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168, Italy
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- 1] Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. [2] Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Laboratorio di Genetica Molecolare, IRCCS Associazione Oasi Maria SS, Troina 94018, Italy
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L5, Canada
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- Servicio de Huellas Digitales Genéticas, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1113 CABA, Argentina
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Linguistics, University of Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse 31000, France
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- North-Eastern Federal University and Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk 677013, Russia
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- ARL Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen 5021, Norway
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, National Human Genome Center, Medical University Sofia, Sofia 1431, Bulgaria
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- 1] Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa 450054, Russia. [2] Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa 450074, Russia
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- 1] Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa 450054, Russia. [2] Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa 450074, Russia
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- College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724, USA
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3140, USA
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- Department of Human and Medical Genetics, Vilnius University, Vilnius LT-08661, Lithuania
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- Translational Medicine and Neurogenetics, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch 67404, France
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- 1] Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa 450054, Russia. [2] Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa 450074, Russia. [3] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- 1] Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK. [2] Amgen, 33 Kazantzaki Str, Ilioupolis 16342, Athens, Greece (T.L.); Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India (L.S.)
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Szentagothai Research Center, University of Pécs, Pécs H-7624, Hungary
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Guatemala, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
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- Research Department, 23andMe, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, National Human Genome Center, Medical University Sofia, Sofia 1431, Bulgaria
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- Department of Biochemistry, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam 65001, Tanzania
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Research Institute of Health, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk 677000, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo, Palermo 90128, Italy
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- 1] Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica 1000000, Chile. [2] Programa de Genética Humana ICBM Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8320000, Chile. [3] Centro de Investigaciones del Hombre en el Desierto, Arica 1000000, Chile
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- 1] Institute of Immunology, Academy of Science, Tashkent 70000, Uzbekistan. [2]
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- 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu, 51010, Estonia. [2] Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan 0014, Armenia
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- 1] Department of Forensic Medicine, Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland. [2] Institute of Applied Genetics, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas 76107, USA
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- Unidade de Xenética, Departamento de Anatomía Patolóxica e Ciencias Forenses, and Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica (GMX), Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galcia 15872, Spain
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Research Fellow, Henry Stewart Group, Russell House, London WC1A 2HN, UK
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- Department of Medical Genetics, National Human Genome Center, Medical University Sofia, Sofia 1431, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Academy of Sciences Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent 100125, Uzbekistan
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- Department of Human and Medical Genetics, Vilnius University, Vilnius LT-08661, Lithuania
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- Department of Genetics and Cytology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv 61077, Ukraine
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- 1] Instituto Boliviano de Biología de la Altura, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, 591 2 La Paz, Bolivia. [2] UniversidadAutonoma Tomás Frías, Potosí, Bolivia
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- 1] Instituto Boliviano de Biología de la Altura, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, 591 2 La Paz, Bolivia. [2] UniversidadAutonoma Tomás Frías, Potosí, Bolivia
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- 1] Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. [2] Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk 630089, Russia. [3] Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Basic Research Laboratory, NCI, NIH, Frederick National Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan 0014, Armenia
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- 1] Lebanese American University, School of Medicine, Beirut 13-5053, Lebanon. [2] Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Medical Biology, University of Split, School of Medicine, Split 21000, Croatia
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA and Environment Institute, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Biology and Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- 1] CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500 007, India. [2] Amgen, 33 Kazantzaki Str, Ilioupolis 16342, Athens, Greece (T.L.); Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India (L.S.)
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- 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu, 51010, Estonia. [2] Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia. [3] Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn 10130, Estonia
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- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08003, Spain
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- Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- 1] Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz D-55128, Germany
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3140, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- 1] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. [2] Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. [3] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- 1] Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72074, Germany. [2] Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany. [3] Max Planck Institut für Geschichte und Naturwissenschaften, Jena 07745, Germany
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Kovacevic L, Tambets K, Ilumäe AM, Kushniarevich A, Yunusbayev B, Solnik A, Bego T, Primorac D, Skaro V, Leskovac A, Jakovski Z, Drobnic K, Tolk HV, Kovacevic S, Rudan P, Metspalu E, Marjanovic D. Standing at the gateway to Europe--the genetic structure of Western balkan populations based on autosomal and haploid markers. PLoS One 2014; 9:e105090. [PMID: 25148043 PMCID: PMC4141785 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2014] [Accepted: 07/20/2014] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Contemporary inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula belong to several ethnic groups of diverse cultural background. In this study, three ethnic groups from Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosniacs, Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs - as well as the populations of Serbians, Croatians, Macedonians from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegrins and Kosovars have been characterized for the genetic variation of 660 000 genome-wide autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms and for haploid markers. New autosomal data of the 70 individuals together with previously published data of 20 individuals from the populations of the Western Balkan region in a context of 695 samples of global range have been analysed. Comparison of the variation data of autosomal and haploid lineages of the studied Western Balkan populations reveals a concordance of the data in both sets and the genetic uniformity of the studied populations, especially of Western South-Slavic speakers. The genetic variation of Western Balkan populations reveals the continuity between the Middle East and Europe via the Balkan region and supports the scenario that one of the major routes of ancient gene flows and admixture went through the Balkan Peninsula.
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- Lejla Kovacevic
- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sarajevo; Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institute for forensic medicine, criminology and and medical deontology, Medical Faculty, University of St. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, F.Y.R of Macedonia
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- National forensic laboratory, Ministry of the Interior, Slovenia
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia
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- Croatian Academy of Science and Art, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- University Center of Forensic Science, Split, Croatia
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Rootsi S, Behar DM, Järve M, Lin AA, Myres NM, Passarelli B, Poznik GD, Tzur S, Sahakyan H, Pathak AK, Rosset S, Metspalu M, Grugni V, Semino O, Metspalu E, Bustamante CD, Skorecki K, Villems R, Kivisild T, Underhill PA. Phylogenetic applications of whole Y-chromosome sequences and the Near Eastern origin of Ashkenazi Levites. Nat Commun 2014; 4:2928. [PMID: 24346185 PMCID: PMC3905698 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2013] [Accepted: 11/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Previous Y-chromosome studies have demonstrated that Ashkenazi Levites, members of a paternally inherited Jewish priestly caste, display a distinctive founder event within R1a, the most prevalent Y-chromosome haplogroup in Eastern Europe. Here we report the analysis of 16 whole R1 sequences and show that a set of 19 unique nucleotide substitutions defines the Ashkenazi R1a lineage. While our survey of one of these, M582, in 2,834 R1a samples reveals its absence in 922 Eastern Europeans, we show it is present in all sampled R1a Ashkenazi Levites, as well as in 33.8% of other R1a Ashkenazi Jewish males and 5.9% of 303 R1a Near Eastern males, where it shows considerably higher diversity. Moreover, the M582 lineage also occurs at low frequencies in non-Ashkenazi Jewish populations. In contrast to the previously suggested Eastern European origin for Ashkenazi Levites, the current data are indicative of a geographic source of the Levite founder lineage in the Near East and its likely presence among pre-Diaspora Hebrews. Population genetics studies continue to debate whether Ashkenazi Levites originated in Europe or the Near East. Here, Rootsi et al. use whole Y-chromosome DNA sequences to unravel the phylogenetic origin of the Ashkenazi Levite and suggest an origin for the Levite founder lineage in the Near East.
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- Siiri Rootsi
- 1] Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2]
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- 1] Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa 31096, Israel [3]
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Program in Biomedical Informatics and Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa 31096, Israel
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- 1] Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan 0014, Armenia
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Statistics and Operations Research, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie 'Lazzaro Spallanzani', Università di Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- 1] Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie 'Lazzaro Spallanzani', Università di Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy [2] Centro Interdipartimentale 'Studi di Genere', Università di Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- 1] Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa 31096, Israel [2] Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel
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- 1] Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2]
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- Division of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QG Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Sarac J, Sarić T, Auguštin DH, Jeran N, Kovačević L, Cvjetan S, Lewis AP, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Novokmet N, Vidovič M, Nevajda B, Glasnović A, Marjanović D, Missoni S, Villems R, Rudan P. Maternal genetic heritage of Southeastern Europe reveals a new Croatian isolate and a novel, local sub-branching in the x2 haplogroup. Ann Hum Genet 2014; 78:178-94. [PMID: 24621318 DOI: 10.1111/ahg.12056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2013] [Accepted: 12/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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High mtDNA variation in Southeastern Europe (SEE) is a reflection of the turbulent and complex demographic history of this area, influenced by gene flow from various parts of Eurasia and a long history of intermixing. Our results of 1035 samples (488 from Croatia, 239 from Bosnia and 130 from Herzegovina, reported earlier, and 97 Slovenians and 81 individuals from Žumberak, reported here for the first time) show that the SEE maternal genetic diversity fits within a broader European maternal genetic landscape. The study also shows that the population of Žumberak, located in the continental part of Croatia, developed some unique mtDNA haplotypes and elevated haplogroup frequencies due to distinctive demographic history and can be considered a moderate genetic isolate. We also report seven samples from the Bosnian population and one Herzegovinian sample designated as X2* individuals that could not be assigned to any of its sublineages (X2a'o) according to the existing X2 phylogeny. In an attempt to clarify the phylogeny of our X2 samples, their mitochondrial DNA has been completely sequenced. We suppose that these lineages are signs of local microdifferentiation processes that occurred in the recent demographic past in this area and could possibly be marked as SEE-specific X2 sublineages.
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- Jelena Sarac
- Institute for Anthropological Research, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Raghavan M, Skoglund P, Graf KE, Metspalu M, Albrechtsen A, Moltke I, Rasmussen S, Stafford TW, Orlando L, Metspalu E, Karmin M, Tambets K, Rootsi S, Mägi R, Campos PF, Balanovska E, Balanovsky O, Khusnutdinova E, Litvinov S, Osipova LP, Fedorova SA, Voevoda MI, DeGiorgio M, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Brunak S, Demeshchenko S, Kivisild T, Villems R, Nielsen R, Jakobsson M, Willerslev E. Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans. Nature 2013; 505:87-91. [PMID: 24256729 DOI: 10.1038/nature12736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 431] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The origins of the First Americans remain contentious. Although Native Americans seem to be genetically most closely related to east Asians, there is no consensus with regard to which specific Old World populations they are closest to. Here we sequence the draft genome of an approximately 24,000-year-old individual (MA-1), from Mal'ta in south-central Siberia, to an average depth of 1×. To our knowledge this is the oldest anatomically modern human genome reported to date. The MA-1 mitochondrial genome belongs to haplogroup U, which has also been found at high frequency among Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers, and the Y chromosome of MA-1 is basal to modern-day western Eurasians and near the root of most Native American lineages. Similarly, we find autosomal evidence that MA-1 is basal to modern-day western Eurasians and genetically closely related to modern-day Native Americans, with no close affinity to east Asians. This suggests that populations related to contemporary western Eurasians had a more north-easterly distribution 24,000 years ago than commonly thought. Furthermore, we estimate that 14 to 38% of Native American ancestry may originate through gene flow from this ancient population. This is likely to have occurred after the divergence of Native American ancestors from east Asian ancestors, but before the diversification of Native American populations in the New World. Gene flow from the MA-1 lineage into Native American ancestors could explain why several crania from the First Americans have been reported as bearing morphological characteristics that do not resemble those of east Asians. Sequencing of another south-central Siberian, Afontova Gora-2 dating to approximately 17,000 years ago, revealed similar autosomal genetic signatures as MA-1, suggesting that the region was continuously occupied by humans throughout the Last Glacial Maximum. Our findings reveal that western Eurasian genetic signatures in modern-day Native Americans derive not only from post-Columbian admixture, as commonly thought, but also from a mixed ancestry of the First Americans.
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- Maanasa Raghavan
- 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark [2]
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- 1] Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, Uppsala 752 36, Sweden [2]
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- Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, TAMU-4352, College Station, Texas 77845-4352, USA
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- 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA [3] Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
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- 1] The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark [2] Department of Human Genetics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- 1] Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark [2] AMS 14C Dating Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade 120, Aarhus DK-8000, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moskvorechie Street 1, Moscow 115479, Russia
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- 1] Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moskvorechie Street 1, Moscow 115479, Russia [2] Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gubkina Street 3, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- 1] Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Bashkorostan 450054, Russia [2] Biology Department, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkorostan 450074, Russia
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- 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Bashkorostan 450054, Russia
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- The Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Center for Brain Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyeva Avenue, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) 677010, Russia
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- 1] The Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Center for Brain Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyeva Avenue, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia [2] Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Borisa Bogatkova 175/1, Novosibirsk 630089, Russia
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- 1] Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark [2] Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- 1] Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark [2] Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- 1] Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu 51010, Estonia [2] Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia [3] Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn 10130, Estonia
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- 1] Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, Uppsala 752 36, Sweden [2] Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Di Cristofaro J, Pennarun E, Mazières S, Myres NM, Lin AA, Temori SA, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Witzel M, King RJ, Underhill PA, Villems R, Chiaroni J. Afghan Hindu Kush: where Eurasian sub-continent gene flows converge. PLoS One 2013; 8:e76748. [PMID: 24204668 PMCID: PMC3799995 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2013] [Accepted: 08/29/2013] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Despite being located at the crossroads of Asia, genetics of the Afghanistan populations have been largely overlooked. It is currently inhabited by five major ethnic populations: Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek and Turkmen. Here we present autosomal from a subset of our samples, mitochondrial and Y- chromosome data from over 500 Afghan samples among these 5 ethnic groups. This Afghan data was supplemented with the same Y-chromosome analyses of samples from Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and updated Pakistani samples (HGDP-CEPH). The data presented here was integrated into existing knowledge of pan-Eurasian genetic diversity. The pattern of genetic variation, revealed by structure-like and Principal Component analyses and Analysis of Molecular Variance indicates that the people of Afghanistan are made up of a mosaic of components representing various geographic regions of Eurasian ancestry. The absence of a major Central Asian-specific component indicates that the Hindu Kush, like the gene pool of Central Asian populations in general, is a confluence of gene flows rather than a source of distinctly autochthonous populations that have arisen in situ: a conclusion that is reinforced by the phylogeography of both haploid loci.
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Aix Marseille Université, ADES UMR7268, CNRS, EFS-AM, Marseille, France
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- Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, Kabul Medical University, Kabul, Afghanistan
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Aix Marseille Université, ADES UMR7268, CNRS, EFS-AM, Marseille, France
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Pshenichnov A, Balanovsky O, Utevska O, Metspalu E, Zaporozhchenko V, Agdzhoyan A, Churnosov M, Atramentova L, Balanovska E. Genetic affinities of Ukrainians from the maternal perspective. Am J Phys Anthropol 2013; 152:543-50. [PMID: 24122717 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2013] [Accepted: 08/23/2013] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The area of what is now the Ukraine has been the arena of large-scale demographic processes that may have left their traces in the contemporary gene pool of Ukrainians. In this study, we present new mitochondrial DNA data for 607 Ukrainians (hypervariable segment I sequences and coding region polymorphisms). To study the maternal affinities of Ukrainians at the level of separate mitochondrial haplotypes, we apply an original technique, the haplotype co-occurrence analysis. About 20% of the Ukrainian maternal gene pool is represented by lineages highly specific to Ukrainians, but is scarcely found in other populations. About 9% of Ukrainian mtDNA lineages are typical for peoples of the Volga region. We also identified minor gene pool strata (1.6-3.3%), each of which is common in Lithuanians, Estonians, Saami, Nenets, Cornish, and the populations of the North Caucasus.
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Fedorova SA, Reidla M, Metspalu E, Metspalu M, Rootsi S, Tambets K, Trofimova N, Zhadanov SI, Kashani BH, Olivieri A, Voevoda MI, Osipova LP, Platonov FA, Tomsky MI, Khusnutdinova EK, Torroni A, Villems R. Autosomal and uniparental portraits of the native populations of Sakha (Yakutia): implications for the peopling of Northeast Eurasia. BMC Evol Biol 2013; 13:127. [PMID: 23782551 PMCID: PMC3695835 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2013] [Accepted: 06/10/2013] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Sakha--an area connecting South and Northeast Siberia--is significant for understanding the history of peopling of Northeast Eurasia and the Americas. Previous studies have shown a genetic contiguity between Siberia and East Asia and the key role of South Siberia in the colonization of Siberia. RESULTS We report the results of a high-resolution phylogenetic analysis of 701 mtDNAs and 318 Y chromosomes from five native populations of Sakha (Yakuts, Evenks, Evens, Yukaghirs and Dolgans) and of the analysis of more than 500,000 autosomal SNPs of 758 individuals from 55 populations, including 40 previously unpublished samples from Siberia. Phylogenetically terminal clades of East Asian mtDNA haplogroups C and D and Y-chromosome haplogroups N1c, N1b and C3, constituting the core of the gene pool of the native populations from Sakha, connect Sakha and South Siberia. Analysis of autosomal SNP data confirms the genetic continuity between Sakha and South Siberia. Maternal lineages D5a2a2, C4a1c, C4a2, C5b1b and the Yakut-specific STR sub-clade of Y-chromosome haplogroup N1c can be linked to a migration of Yakut ancestors, while the paternal lineage C3c was most likely carried to Sakha by the expansion of the Tungusic people. MtDNA haplogroups Z1a1b and Z1a3, present in Yukaghirs, Evens and Dolgans, show traces of different and probably more ancient migration(s). Analysis of both haploid loci and autosomal SNP data revealed only minor genetic components shared between Sakha and the extreme Northeast Siberia. Although the major part of West Eurasian maternal and paternal lineages in Sakha could originate from recent admixture with East Europeans, mtDNA haplogroups H8, H20a and HV1a1a, as well as Y-chromosome haplogroup J, more probably reflect an ancient gene flow from West Eurasia through Central Asia and South Siberia. CONCLUSIONS Our high-resolution phylogenetic dissection of mtDNA and Y-chromosome haplogroups as well as analysis of autosomal SNP data suggests that Sakha was colonized by repeated expansions from South Siberia with minor gene flow from the Lower Amur/Southern Okhotsk region and/or Kamchatka. The minor West Eurasian component in Sakha attests to both recent and ongoing admixture with East Europeans and an ancient gene flow from West Eurasia.
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- Sardana A Fedorova
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Institute of Internal Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Health, North-East Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Research Center of Complex Medical Problems, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
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Kushniarevich A, Sivitskaya L, Danilenko N, Novogrodskii T, Tsybovsky I, Kiseleva A, Kotova S, Chaubey G, Metspalu E, Sahakyan H, Bahmanimehr A, Reidla M, Rootsi S, Parik J, Reisberg T, Achilli A, Hooshiar Kashani B, Gandini F, Olivieri A, Behar DM, Torroni A, Davydenko O, Villems R. Uniparental genetic heritage of belarusians: encounter of rare middle eastern matrilineages with a central European mitochondrial DNA pool. PLoS One 2013; 8:e66499. [PMID: 23785503 PMCID: PMC3681942 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2013] [Accepted: 05/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Ethnic Belarusians make up more than 80% of the nine and half million people inhabiting the Republic of Belarus. Belarusians together with Ukrainians and Russians represent the East Slavic linguistic group, largest both in numbers and territory, inhabiting East Europe alongside Baltic-, Finno-Permic- and Turkic-speaking people. Till date, only a limited number of low resolution genetic studies have been performed on this population. Therefore, with the phylogeographic analysis of 565 Y-chromosomes and 267 mitochondrial DNAs from six well covered geographic sub-regions of Belarus we strove to complement the existing genetic profile of eastern Europeans. Our results reveal that around 80% of the paternal Belarusian gene pool is composed of R1a, I2a and N1c Y-chromosome haplogroups – a profile which is very similar to the two other eastern European populations – Ukrainians and Russians. The maternal Belarusian gene pool encompasses a full range of West Eurasian haplogroups and agrees well with the genetic structure of central-east European populations. Our data attest that latitudinal gradients characterize the variation of the uniparentally transmitted gene pools of modern Belarusians. In particular, the Y-chromosome reflects movements of people in central-east Europe, starting probably as early as the beginning of the Holocene. Furthermore, the matrilineal legacy of Belarusians retains two rare mitochondrial DNA haplogroups, N1a3 and N3, whose phylogeographies were explored in detail after de novo sequencing of 20 and 13 complete mitogenomes, respectively, from all over Eurasia. Our phylogeographic analyses reveal that two mitochondrial DNA lineages, N3 and N1a3, both of Middle Eastern origin, might mark distinct events of matrilineal gene flow to Europe: during the mid-Holocene period and around the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, respectively.
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Migliano AB, Romero IG, Metspalu M, Leavesley M, Pagani L, Antao T, Huang DW, Sherman BT, Siddle K, Scholes C, Hudjashov G, Kaitokai E, Babalu A, Belatti M, Cagan A, Hopkinshaw B, Shaw C, Nelis M, Metspalu E, Mägi R, Lempicki RA, Villems R, Lahr MM, Kivisild T. Evolution of the Pygmy Phenotype: Evidence of Positive Selection from Genome-wide Scans in African, Asian, and Melanesian Pygmies. Hum Biol 2013; 85:251-84. [DOI: 10.3378/027.085.0313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Pennarun E, Kivisild T, Metspalu E, Metspalu M, Reisberg T, Moisan JP, Behar DM, Jones SC, Villems R. Divorcing the Late Upper Palaeolithic demographic histories of mtDNA haplogroups M1 and U6 in Africa. BMC Evol Biol 2012. [PMID: 23206491 PMCID: PMC3582464 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Background A Southwest Asian origin and dispersal to North Africa in the Early Upper Palaeolithic era has been inferred in previous studies for mtDNA haplogroups M1 and U6. Both haplogroups have been proposed to show similar geographic patterns and shared demographic histories. Results We report here 24 M1 and 33 U6 new complete mtDNA sequences that allow us to refine the existing phylogeny of these haplogroups. The resulting phylogenetic information was used to genotype a further 131 M1 and 91 U6 samples to determine the geographic spread of their sub-clades. No southwest Asian specific clades for M1 or U6 were discovered. U6 and M1 frequencies in North Africa, the Middle East and Europe do not follow similar patterns, and their sub-clade divisions do not appear to be compatible with their shared history reaching back to the Early Upper Palaeolithic. The Bayesian Skyline Plots testify to non-overlapping phases of expansion, and the haplogroups’ phylogenies suggest that there are U6 sub-clades that expanded earlier than those in M1. Some M1 and U6 sub-clades could be linked with certain events. For example, U6a1 and M1b, with their coalescent ages of ~20,000–22,000 years ago and earliest inferred expansion in northwest Africa, could coincide with the flourishing of the Iberomaurusian industry, whilst U6b and M1b1 appeared at the time of the Capsian culture. Conclusions Our high-resolution phylogenetic dissection of both haplogroups and coalescent time assessments suggest that the extant main branching pattern of both haplogroups arose and diversified in the mid-later Upper Palaeolithic, with some sub-clades concomitantly with the expansion of the Iberomaurusian industry. Carriers of these maternal lineages have been later absorbed into and diversified further during the spread of Afro-Asiatic languages in North and East Africa.
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- Erwan Pennarun
- Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
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Yunusbayev B, Metspalu M, Jarve M, Kutuev I, Rootsi S, Metspalu E, Behar DM, Varendi K, Sahakyan H, Khusainova R, Yepiskoposyan L, Khusnutdinova EK, Underhill PA, Kivisild T, Villems R. The Caucasus as an Asymmetric Semipermeable Barrier to Ancient Human Migrations. Mol Biol Evol 2012. [DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Khusnutdinova EK, Litvinov SS, Kutuev IA, Yunusbayev BB, Khusainova RI, Ahmetova VL, Ahatova FS, Metspalu E, Rootsi S, Villems R. Gene pool of ethnic groups of the Caucasus: Results of integrated study of the Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA and genome-wide data. RUSS J GENET+ 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795412060063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Khusnutdinova EK, Litvinov SS, Kutuev IA, Iunusbaev BB, Khusainova RI, Akhmetova VL, Ahatova FS, Metspalu E, Rootsi S, Villems R. [Gene pool of ethnic groups of the caucasus: results of integrated study of the Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA and genome-wide data]. Genetika 2012; 48:750-761. [PMID: 22946333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Genetic diversity has been analyzed in 22 ethnic groups of the Caucasus on the basis of data on Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers, as well as genome-wide data on autosomal single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). It has been found that the West Asian component is prevailing in all ethnic groups studied except for Nogays. This Near Eastern ancestral component has proved to be characteristic of Caucasian populations and almost entirely absent in their northern neighbors inhabiting the Eastern European Plain. Turkic-speaking populations, except Nogays, did not exhibit an increased proportion of Eastern Eurasian mtDNA or Y-chromosome haplogroups compared to some Abkhaz-Adyghe populations (Adygs and Kabardians). Genome-wide SNP analysis has also shown substantial differences of Nogays from all other Caucasian populations studied. However, the characteristic difference of Nogays from other populations of the Caucasus seems somewhat ambiguous in terms of the R1a1a-M17(M198) and R1b1b1-M73 haplogroups of the Y chromosome. The state of these haplogroups in Turkic-speaking populations of the Caucasus requires further study.
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Augustin DH, Jeran N, Sarac J, Sarić T, Metspalu E, Reisberg T, Sujoldzić A, Villems R, Rudan P. Maternal genetic legacy of the eastern Adriatic island of Krk--an interplay of evolutionary forces and island's historical events in shaping the genetic structure of contemporary island population. Coll Antropol 2012; 36:353-362. [PMID: 22856215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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This study presents genetic diversity and structure of contemporary Krk islanders revealed by high-resolution mitochondrial DNA analysis on a sample of 132 unrelated autochthonous adults from seven different settlements and regions of the island. Relatively high level of haplogroup and haplotype diversity in the overall island sample is an indicator of numerous migrations and gene flows throughout the history. Expectedly, the results show the highest frequency of haplogroup H (33.3%), yet this value is much lower compared to different Croatian and other European mainland populations. An interesting finding refers to highly elevated frequencies of some haplogroups, otherwise rare in Croatia and most of the Europe, such as I (11.3%) and W (7.6%) in Krk population, especially pronounced in some settlements. At the level of settlements, many of the major European haplogroups were found to be absent from their mtDNA gene pools, whereas several others show a pronounced deviation from an average. Overall, our results suggest a tangled interplay of different evolutionary forces, such as founder effects and a few strong bottlenecks, presumably due to epidemics, which have occurred in various periods of the island's history. Cultural customs, such as frequent endogamy in some regions of the island during past centuries, have additionally shaped its genetic structure into the observed present-day diversity patterns.
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Pala M, Olivieri A, Achilli A, Accetturo M, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Tamm E, Karmin M, Reisberg T, Kashani B, Perego U, Carossa V, Gandini F, Pereira J, Soares P, Angerhofer N, Rychkov S, Al-Zahery N, Carelli V, Sanati M, Houshmand M, Hatina J, Macaulay V, Pereira L, Woodward S, Davies W, Gamble C, Baird D, Semino O, Villems R, Torroni A, Richards M. Mitochondrial DNA signals of late glacial recolonization of Europe from near eastern refugia. Am J Hum Genet 2012; 90:915-24. [PMID: 22560092 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2012] [Revised: 03/22/2012] [Accepted: 04/03/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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Human populations, along with those of many other species, are thought to have contracted into a number of refuge areas at the height of the last Ice Age. European populations are believed to be, to a large extent, the descendants of the inhabitants of these refugia, and some extant mtDNA lineages can be traced to refugia in Franco-Cantabria (haplogroups H1, H3, V, and U5b1), the Italian Peninsula (U5b3), and the East European Plain (U4 and U5a). Parts of the Near East, such as the Levant, were also continuously inhabited throughout the Last Glacial Maximum, but unlike western and eastern Europe, no archaeological or genetic evidence for Late Glacial expansions into Europe from the Near East has hitherto been discovered. Here we report, on the basis of an enlarged whole-genome mitochondrial database, that a substantial, perhaps predominant, signal from mitochondrial haplogroups J and T, previously thought to have spread primarily from the Near East into Europe with the Neolithic population, may in fact reflect dispersals during the Late Glacial period, ∼19-12 thousand years (ka) ago.
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Šarac J, Šarić T, Jeran N, Auguštin DH, Metspalu E, Vekarić N, Missoni S, Villems R, Rudan P. Influence of evolutionary forces and demographic processes on the genetic structure of three Croatian populations: a maternal perspective. Ann Hum Biol 2012; 39:143-55. [PMID: 22324841 DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2012.660194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Many Croatian islands are examples of genetic isolates, with low level of heterozygosity and high level of inbreeding, due to practice of endogamy. AIM The aim was to study the genetic structure of two insular and one mainland population through high-resolution phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). SUBJECTS AND METHODS MtDNA polymorphisms were explored in 300 unrelated individuals from Mljet, Lastovo and the coastal city of Dubrovnik, based on SNP polymorphisms. RESULTS All mtDNA haplogroups found in the sample were of typical European origin. However, the frequency distribution of their subclades differed significantly from other Croatian and European populations. MtDNA haplotype analysis revealed only two possible founder lineages on Mljet and six on Lastovo, accounting for almost half of the sample on both islands. The island of Mljet also has the lowest reported haplotype and nucleotide diversity among Croatian isolates and the island of Lastovo, a new sublineage of a usually quite rare U1b clade. CONCLUSION The results can be explained by the effect evolutionary forces have on genetic structure, which is in line with the specific demographic histories of the islands. An additional research value of these two island isolates is the appearance of certain Mendelian disorders, highlighting their importance in epidemiological studies.
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- Jelena Šarac
- Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia.
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Metspalu M, Romero I, Yunusbayev B, Chaubey G, Mallick C, Hudjashov G, Nelis M, Mägi R, Metspalu E, Remm M, Pitchappan R, Singh L, Thangaraj K, Villems R, Kivisild T. Shared and Unique Components of Human Population Structure and Genome-Wide Signals of Positive Selection in South Asia. Am J Hum Genet 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022] Open
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Metspalu M, Romero I, Yunusbayev B, Chaubey G, Mallick C, Hudjashov G, Nelis M, Mägi R, Metspalu E, Remm M, Pitchappan R, Singh L, Thangaraj K, Villems R, Kivisild T. Shared and unique components of human population structure and genome-wide signals of positive selection in South Asia. Am J Hum Genet 2011; 89:731-44. [PMID: 22152676 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2011] [Revised: 09/06/2011] [Accepted: 11/12/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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South Asia harbors one of the highest levels genetic diversity in Eurasia, which could be interpreted as a result of its long-term large effective population size and of admixture during its complex demographic history. In contrast to Pakistani populations, populations of Indian origin have been underrepresented in previous genomic scans of positive selection and population structure. Here we report data for more than 600,000 SNP markers genotyped in 142 samples from 30 ethnic groups in India. Combining our results with other available genome-wide data, we show that Indian populations are characterized by two major ancestry components, one of which is spread at comparable frequency and haplotype diversity in populations of South and West Asia and the Caucasus. The second component is more restricted to South Asia and accounts for more than 50% of the ancestry in Indian populations. Haplotype diversity associated with these South Asian ancestry components is significantly higher than that of the components dominating the West Eurasian ancestry palette. Modeling of the observed haplotype diversities suggests that both Indian ancestry components are older than the purported Indo-Aryan invasion 3,500 YBP. Consistent with the results of pairwise genetic distances among world regions, Indians share more ancestry signals with West than with East Eurasians. However, compared to Pakistani populations, a higher proportion of their genes show regionally specific signals of high haplotype homozygosity. Among such candidates of positive selection in India are MSTN and DOK5, both of which have potential implications in lipid metabolism and the etiology of type 2 diabetes.
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Rasmussen M, Guo X, Wang Y, Lohmueller KE, Rasmussen S, Albrechtsen A, Skotte L, Lindgreen S, Metspalu M, Jombart T, Kivisild T, Zhai W, Eriksson A, Manica A, Orlando L, De La Vega FM, Tridico S, Metspalu E, Nielsen K, Ávila-Arcos MC, Moreno-Mayar JV, Muller C, Dortch J, Gilbert MTP, Lund O, Wesolowska A, Karmin M, Weinert LA, Wang B, Li J, Tai S, Xiao F, Hanihara T, van Driem G, Jha AR, Ricaut FX, de Knijff P, Migliano AB, Romero IG, Kristiansen K, Lambert DM, Brunak S, Forster P, Brinkmann B, Nehlich O, Bunce M, Richards M, Gupta R, Bustamante CD, Krogh A, Foley RA, Lahr MM, Balloux F, Sicheritz-Pontén T, Villems R, Nielsen R, Wang J, Willerslev E. An Aboriginal Australian genome reveals separate human dispersals into Asia. Science 2011; 334:94-8. [PMID: 21940856 PMCID: PMC3991479 DOI: 10.1126/science.1211177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 350] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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We present an Aboriginal Australian genomic sequence obtained from a 100-year-old lock of hair donated by an Aboriginal man from southern Western Australia in the early 20th century. We detect no evidence of European admixture and estimate contamination levels to be below 0.5%. We show that Aboriginal Australians are descendants of an early human dispersal into eastern Asia, possibly 62,000 to 75,000 years ago. This dispersal is separate from the one that gave rise to modern Asians 25,000 to 38,000 years ago. We also find evidence of gene flow between populations of the two dispersal waves prior to the divergence of Native Americans from modern Asian ancestors. Our findings support the hypothesis that present-day Aboriginal Australians descend from the earliest humans to occupy Australia, likely representing one of the oldest continuous populations outside Africa.
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- Morten Rasmussen
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Sino-Danish Genomics Center, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Sino-Danish Genomics Center, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Transomics Biotechnologies, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
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- Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Tartu University and Estonian Biocentre, 23 Riia Street, 510101 Tartu, Estonia
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- MRC Centre for Outbreak, Analysis and Modeling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 7 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, China
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Ancient DNA Lab, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Western Australia 6150, Australia
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Tartu University and Estonian Biocentre, 23 Riia Street, 510101 Tartu, Estonia
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Undergraduate Program on Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Avenida Universidad s/n Chamilpa 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Goldfields Land and Sea Council Aboriginal Corporation, 14 Throssell Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia 6430, Australia
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- Archaeology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Sino-Danish Genomics Center, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Tartu University and Estonian Biocentre, 23 Riia Street, 510101 Tartu, Estonia
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- MRC Centre for Outbreak, Analysis and Modeling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Transomics Biotechnologies, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Transomics Biotechnologies, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Transomics Biotechnologies, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Transomics Biotechnologies, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
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- Department of Anatomy, Kitasato University School of Medicine, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara 252-0374, Japan
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- Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bern, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse, Université de Toulouse (Paul Sabatier)–CNRS UMR 5288, 31073 Toulouse Cedex 3, France
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- Department of Human and Clinical Genetics, Postzone S5-P, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, Netherlands
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
- Department of Anthropology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Sino-Danish Genomics Center, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Transomics Biotechnologies, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Griffith School of Environment and School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0DF, UK
- Institute for Forensic Genetics, D-48161 Münster, Germany
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- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- Ancient DNA Lab, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Western Australia 6150, Australia
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- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK
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- MRC Centre for Outbreak, Analysis and Modeling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Tartu University and Estonian Biocentre, 23 Riia Street, 510101 Tartu, Estonia
- Estonian Academy of Sciences, 6 Kohtu Street, 10130 Tallinn, Estonia
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- Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Sino-Danish Genomics Center, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Transomics Biotechnologies, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Sino-Danish Genomics Center, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Yunusbayev B, Metspalu M, Järve M, Kutuev I, Rootsi S, Metspalu E, Behar DM, Varendi K, Sahakyan H, Khusainova R, Yepiskoposyan L, Khusnutdinova EK, Underhill PA, Kivisild T, Villems R. The Caucasus as an asymmetric semipermeable barrier to ancient human migrations. Mol Biol Evol 2011; 29:359-65. [PMID: 21917723 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The Caucasus, inhabited by modern humans since the Early Upper Paleolithic and known for its linguistic diversity, is considered to be important for understanding human dispersals and genetic diversity in Eurasia. We report a synthesis of autosomal, Y chromosome, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation in populations from all major subregions and linguistic phyla of the area. Autosomal genome variation in the Caucasus reveals significant genetic uniformity among its ethnically and linguistically diverse populations and is consistent with predominantly Near/Middle Eastern origin of the Caucasians, with minor external impacts. In contrast to autosomal and mtDNA variation, signals of regional Y chromosome founder effects distinguish the eastern from western North Caucasians. Genetic discontinuity between the North Caucasus and the East European Plain contrasts with continuity through Anatolia and the Balkans, suggesting major routes of ancient gene flows and admixture.
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Chaubey G, Metspalu M, Choi Y, Mägi R, Romero IG, Soares P, van Oven M, Behar DM, Rootsi S, Hudjashov G, Mallick CB, Karmin M, Nelis M, Parik J, Reddy AG, Metspalu E, van Driem G, Xue Y, Tyler-Smith C, Thangaraj K, Singh L, Remm M, Richards MB, Lahr MM, Kayser M, Villems R, Kivisild T. Population genetic structure in Indian Austroasiatic speakers: the role of landscape barriers and sex-specific admixture. Mol Biol Evol 2010; 28:1013-24. [PMID: 20978040 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The geographic origin and time of dispersal of Austroasiatic (AA) speakers, presently settled in south and southeast Asia, remains disputed. Two rival hypotheses, both assuming a demic component to the language dispersal, have been proposed. The first of these places the origin of Austroasiatic speakers in southeast Asia with a later dispersal to south Asia during the Neolithic, whereas the second hypothesis advocates pre-Neolithic origins and dispersal of this language family from south Asia. To test the two alternative models, this study combines the analysis of uniparentally inherited markers with 610,000 common single nucleotide polymorphism loci from the nuclear genome. Indian AA speakers have high frequencies of Y chromosome haplogroup O2a; our results show that this haplogroup has significantly higher diversity and coalescent time (17-28 thousand years ago) in southeast Asia, strongly supporting the first of the two hypotheses. Nevertheless, the results of principal component and "structure-like" analyses on autosomal loci also show that the population history of AA speakers in India is more complex, being characterized by two ancestral components-one represented in the pattern of Y chromosomal and EDAR results and the other by mitochondrial DNA diversity and genomic structure. We propose that AA speakers in India today are derived from dispersal from southeast Asia, followed by extensive sex-specific admixture with local Indian populations.
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- Gyaneshwer Chaubey
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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Rasmussen M, Li Y, Lindgreen S, Pedersen JS, Albrechtsen A, Moltke I, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Kivisild T, Gupta R, Bertalan M, Nielsen K, Gilbert MTP, Wang Y, Raghavan M, Campos PF, Kamp HM, Wilson AS, Gledhill A, Tridico S, Bunce M, Lorenzen ED, Binladen J, Guo X, Zhao J, Zhang X, Zhang H, Li Z, Chen M, Orlando L, Kristiansen K, Bak M, Tommerup N, Bendixen C, Pierre TL, Grønnow B, Meldgaard M, Andreasen C, Fedorova SA, Osipova LP, Higham TFG, Ramsey CB, Hansen TVO, Nielsen FC, Crawford MH, Brunak S, Sicheritz-Pontén T, Villems R, Nielsen R, Krogh A, Wang J, Willerslev E. Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo. Nature 2010; 463:757-62. [PMID: 20148029 DOI: 10.1038/nature08835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 456] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2009] [Accepted: 01/18/2010] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from approximately 4,000-year-old permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known culture to settle in Greenland. Sequenced to an average depth of 20x, we recover 79% of the diploid genome, an amount close to the practical limit of current sequencing technologies. We identify 353,151 high-confidence single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), of which 6.8% have not been reported previously. We estimate raw read contamination to be no higher than 0.8%. We use functional SNP assessment to assign possible phenotypic characteristics of the individual that belonged to a culture whose location has yielded only trace human remains. We compare the high-confidence SNPs to those of contemporary populations to find the populations most closely related to the individual. This provides evidence for a migration from Siberia into the New World some 5,500 years ago, independent of that giving rise to the modern Native Americans and Inuit.
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- Morten Rasmussen
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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