Ancient DNA evidence supports the contribution of Di-Qiang people to the han Chinese gene pool

2010 ◽  
Vol 144 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong-Bin Zhao ◽  
Hong-Jie Li ◽  
Sheng-Nan Li ◽  
Chang-Chun Yu ◽  
Shi-Zhu Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Gene Pool ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Dna Evidence

Ancient DNA evidence reveals that the Y chromosome haplogroup Q1a1 admixed into the Han Chinese 3,000 years ago

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 813-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong-Bin Zhao ◽  
Ye Zhang ◽  
Hong-Jie Li ◽  
Ying-Qiu Cui ◽  
Hong Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Y Chromosome ◽  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Dna Evidence

Ancient DNA Evidence for a Homogeneous Maternal Gene Pool in Sixth Millennium cal bc Hungary and the Central European LBK

Early Farmers ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Szécsényi-Nagy ◽  
Victoria Keerl ◽  
János Jakucs ◽  
Guido Brandt ◽  
Eszter Bánffy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Gene Pool ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Central European ◽  
Dna Evidence ◽  
Mitochondrial Data ◽  
European Neolithic ◽  
Cultural Formations ◽  
Neolithic Cultures ◽  
Maternal Gene

Two sixth millennium cal BC cultural formations from the Carpathian Basin are discussed: the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) in Transdanubia, and the Szakálhát culture from the Great Hungarian Plain. Our aim was to address genetic connections between these cultural units and how they were related to the populations of the central European Neolithic. Mitochondrial data from 33 specimens from the Szakálhát culture were compared with 39 samples from the LBK and analysed in the light of previously published ancient DNA studies. The maternal gene pool of the LBK in Transdanubia and the Szakálhát culture are highly similar to each other. Furthermore, both groups show a remarkable affinity to the LBK and the subsequent fifth–fourth millennia cal BC cultures in central Europe. On the other hand, these Neolithic cultural formations can be clearly distinguished from Mesolithic pan-European hunter-gatherer data as well as from published Iberian Neolithic and central European Late Neolithic cultures.

scholarly journals Reanalysis of Eurasian Population History: Ancient DNA Evidence of Population Affinities

Human Biology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-440
Author(s):  
Casey C. Bennett ◽  
Frederika A. Kaestle
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Population History ◽  
Dna Evidence ◽  
Population Affinities

scholarly journals Ancient DNA Reveals That the Genetic Structure of the Northern Han Chinese Was Shaped Prior to 3,000 Years Ago

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. e0125676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong-Bin Zhao ◽  
Ye Zhang ◽  
Quan-Chao Zhang ◽  
Hong-Jie Li ◽  
Ying-Qiu Cui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Structure ◽  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Han Chinese

scholarly journals Ancient DNA reveals genetic connections between early Di-Qiang and Han Chinese

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawei Li ◽  
Wen Zeng ◽  
Ye Zhang ◽  
Albert Min-Shan Ko ◽  
Chunxiang Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Han Chinese

scholarly journals Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1851) ◽  
pp. 20161976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana B. Pereira ◽  
Marta D. Costa ◽  
Daniel Vieira ◽  
Maria Pala ◽  
Lisa Bamford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Near East ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Dna Evidence ◽  
Late Glacial Period ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Mediterranean Europe ◽  
Genetic Pool

Important gaps remain in our understanding of the spread of farming into Europe, due partly to apparent contradictions between studies of contemporary genetic variation and ancient DNA. It seems clear that farming was introduced into central, northern, and eastern Europe from the south by pioneer colonization. It is often argued that these dispersals originated in the Near East, where the potential source genetic pool resembles that of the early European farmers, but clear ancient DNA evidence from Mediterranean Europe is lacking, and there are suggestions that Mediterranean Europe may have resembled the Near East more than the rest of Europe in the Mesolithic. Here, we test this proposal by dating mitogenome founder lineages from the Near East in different regions of Europe. We find that whereas the lineages date mainly to the Neolithic in central Europe and Iberia, they largely date to the Late Glacial period in central/eastern Mediterranean Europe. This supports a scenario in which the genetic pool of Mediterranean Europe was partly a result of Late Glacial expansions from a Near Eastern refuge, and that this formed an important source pool for subsequent Neolithic expansions into the rest of Europe.

scholarly journals Something old, something borrowed: Admixture and adaptation in human evolution

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Dannemann ◽  
Fernando Racimo
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Gene Pool ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Genetic Material ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Functional Assays ◽  
Over Time

Almost a decade ago, the sequencing of ancient DNA from archaic humans - Neanderthals and Denisovans - revealed that modern and archaic humans interbred at least twice during the Pleistocene. The field of human paleogenomics has now turned its attention towards understanding the nature of this genetic legacy in the gene pool of present-day humans. What exactly did modern humans obtain from interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans? Were introgressed genetic material beneficial, neutral or maladaptive? Can differences in phenotypes among present-day human populations be explained by archaic human introgression? These questions are of prime importance for our understanding of recent human evolution, but will require careful computational modeling and extensive functional assays before they can be answered in full. Here, we review the recent literature characterizing introgressed DNA and the likely biological consequences for their modern human carriers. We focus particularly on archaic human haplotypes that were beneficial to modern humans as they expanded across the globe, and on ways to understand how populations harboring these haplotypes evolved over time.

scholarly journals Something old, something borrowed: Admixture and adaptation in human evolution

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Dannemann ◽  
Fernando Racimo
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Gene Pool ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Genetic Material ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Functional Assays ◽  
Over Time

Almost a decade ago, the sequencing of ancient DNA from archaic humans - Neanderthals and Denisovans - revealed that modern and archaic humans interbred at least twice during the Pleistocene. The field of human paleogenomics has now turned its attention towards understanding the nature of this genetic legacy in the gene pool of present-day humans. What exactly did modern humans obtain from interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans? Were introgressed genetic material beneficial, neutral or maladaptive? Can differences in phenotypes among present-day human populations be explained by archaic human introgression? These questions are of prime importance for our understanding of recent human evolution, but will require careful computational modeling and extensive functional assays before they can be answered in full. Here, we review the recent literature characterizing introgressed DNA and the likely biological consequences for their modern human carriers. We focus particularly on archaic human haplotypes that were beneficial to modern humans as they expanded across the globe, and on ways to understand how populations harboring these haplotypes evolved over time.

Ancient DNA evidence of Iberian lynx palaeoendemism

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 172-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Rodríguez-Varela ◽  
Antonio Tagliacozzo ◽  
Irene Ureña ◽  
Nuria García ◽  
Evelyne Crégut-Bonnoure ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Iberian Lynx ◽  
Dna Evidence

scholarly journals Does the 43 bp sequence from an 800 000 year old Cretan dwarf elephantid really rewrite the textbook on mammoths?

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludovic Orlando ◽  
Marie Pagés ◽  
Sébastien Calvignac ◽  
Sandrine Hughes ◽  
Catherine Hänni
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Asian Elephants ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Anatomical Characteristics ◽  
Dna Evidence ◽  
Mtdna Sequence ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Woolly Mammoth

Pigmy elephants inhabited the islands from the Mediterranean region during the Pleistocene period but became extinct in the course of the Holocene. Despite striking distinctive anatomical characteristics related to insularity, some similarities with the lineage of extant Asian elephants have suggested that pigmy elephants could be most probably seen as members of the genus Elephas . Poulakakis et al. (2006) have recently challenged this view by recovering a short mtDNA sequence from an 800 000 year old fossil of the Cretan pigmy elephant ( Elephas creticus ). According to the authors of this study, a deep taxonomic revision of Cretan dwarf elephants would be needed, as the sequence exhibits clear affinities with woolly mammoth haplotypes. However, we point here many aspects that seriously weaken the strength of the ancient DNA evidence reported.

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