A5074566793- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Language and cultural evolution
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Fractal and DNA sequence analysis
- Origins and Evolution of Life
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Soviet and Russian History
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Musée de l'Homme
2013-2025
University of Tartu
2019-2025
University of Tübingen
2025
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2025
Éco-Anthropologie
2009-2021
Estonian Biocentre
2006-2019
Université Paris Cité
2013-2017
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2013-2017
Sorbonne Paris Cité
2017
University of Oxford
2003-2016
Abstract Background Recent advances in the understanding of maternal and paternal heritage south southwest Asian populations have highlighted their role colonization Eurasia by anatomically modern humans. Further requires a deeper insight into topology branches Indian mtDNA phylogenetic tree, which should be contextualized within phylogeography neighboring regional variation. Accordingly, we analyzed control coding region variation 796 (including both tribal caste from different parts India)...
Island Southeast Asia has recently produced several surprises regarding human history, but the region's complex demography remains poorly understood. Here, we report ∼2.3 million genotypes from 1,028 individuals representing 115 indigenous Philippine populations and genome-sequence data two ∼8,000-y-old Liangdao in Taiwan Strait. We show that islands were populated by at least five waves of migration: initially Northern Southern Negritos (distantly related to Australian Papuan groups),...
Ancient DNA (aDNA) research has long depended on the power of PCR to amplify trace amounts surviving genetic material from preserved specimens.While permits specific loci be targeted and amplified, in many ways it can intrinsically unsuited damaged degraded aDNA templates.PCR amplification produce highly-skewed distributions with significant contributions miscoding lesion damage nonauthentic sequence artefacts.As traditional PCR-based approaches have been unable fully resolve molecular...
Published and new samples of Aboriginal Australians Melanesians were analyzed for mtDNA ( n = 172) Y variation 522), the resulting profiles compared with branches known so far within global chromosome tree. i ) All Australian lineages are confirmed to fall mitochondrial founder M N chromosomal founders C F, which associated exodus modern humans from Africa ≈50–70,000 years ago. The analysis reveals no evidence any archaic maternal or paternal in Australians, despite some suggestively robust...
Founder effects in modern populations The genomes of ancient humans can reveal patterns early human migration (see the Perspective by Achilli et al. ). Iceland has a genetically distinct population, despite relatively recent settlement (∼1100 years ago). Ebenesersdóttir examined Icelandic people, dating to near colonization Iceland, and compared them with modernday populations. DNA revealed that founders had Gaelic Norse origins. Genetic drift since initial left Icelanders allele frequencies...
The Slavic branch of the Balto-Slavic sub-family Indo-European languages underwent rapid divergence as a result spatial expansion its speakers from Central-East Europe, in early medieval times. This expansion–mainly to East Europe and northern Balkans–resulted incorporation genetic components numerous autochthonous populations into gene pools. Here, we characterize variation all extant ethnic groups speaking by analyzing mitochondrial DNA (n = 6,876), Y-chromosomes 6,079) genome-wide SNP...
Multiple lines of evidence show that modern humans interbred with archaic Denisovans. Here, we report an account shared demographic history between Australasians and Denisovans distinctively in Island Southeast Asia. Our analyses are based on ∼2.3 million genotypes from 118 ethnic groups the Philippines, including 25 diverse self-identified Negrito populations, along high-coverage genomes Australopapuans Ayta Magbukon Negritos. We possess highest level Denisovan ancestry world-∼30%-40%...
Abstract Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women remarkable 1 . In southern Britain, Late Iron Age Durotriges tribe often buried with substantial grave goods 2 Here we analyse 57 ancient genomes from Durotrigian burial sites and find an extended kin group centred around a single maternal lineage, unrelated (presumably inward migrating) burials being predominantly male. Such matrilocal pattern is undescribed in European prehistory, but when compare mitochondrial haplotype...
Understanding the genetic origins and demographic history of Indian populations is important both for questions concerning early settlement Eurasia more recent events, including appearance Indo-Aryan languages settled agriculture in subcontinent. Although there general agreement that caste tribal share a common late Pleistocene maternal ancestry India, some studies Y-chromosome markers have suggested recent, substantial incursion from Central or West Eurasia. To investigate origin paternal...
Complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome analyses have greatly improved the phylogeny and phylogeography of human mtDNA. Human haplogroup U6 has been considered as a molecular signal Paleolithic return to North Africa modern humans from southwestern Asia. Using 230 complete sequences we refined phylogeny, phylogeographic information by analysis 761 partial sequences. This approach provides chronological limits for its arrival Africa, followed spreads there according climatic fluctuations,...
Abstract The population genetics of the Indian subcontinent is central to understanding early human prehistory due its strategic location on proposed corridor movement from Africa Australia during late Pleistocene. Previous genetic research using mtDNA has emphasized relative isolation Pleistocene colonizers, and physically isolated Andaman Island populations South‐East Asia remain source claims supporting an split between that formed patchy settlement pattern along coast Ocean. Using...
Abstract Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U is among the initial maternal founders in Southwest Asia and Europe one that best indicates matrilineal genetic continuity between late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer groups present-day populations of Europe. While most subclades are older than 30 thousand years, comparatively recent coalescence time extant variation U7 (~16–19 years ago) suggests its current distribution consequence more dispersal events, despite wide geographical range across...
Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and Oceania host one of the world's richest assemblages human phenotypic, linguistic, cultural diversity. Despite this, region's male genetic lineages are globally among last to remain unresolved. We compiled ∼9.7 Mb Y chromosome (chrY) sequence from a diverse sample over 380 men this region, including 152 first reported here. The granularity data set allows us fully resolve date regional chrY phylogeny. This new high-resolution tree confirms two main population...
Abstract Objectives Sex‐specific genetic structures have been previously documented worldwide in humans, even though causal factors not always clearly identified. In this study, we investigated the impact of ethnicity, geography and social organization on sex‐specific structure Inner Asia. Furthermore, explored process ethnogenesis multiple ethnic groups. Methods We sampled DNA Central Northern Asia from 39 populations Indo‐Iranian Turkic‐Mongolic native speakers. focused data Y chromosome...
Significance This report is the first publication, to our knowledge, complete mitochondrial genome of an ancient Aboriginal Australian. In addition, it also provides important evidence about reliability only previous publication this kind. The paper attained international significance, although its conclusions have remained controversial. Using second generation DNA sequencing methods, we provide strong that sequences reported by Adcock et al. were, indeed, contamination. Our manuscript...
The indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman Islands were considered by many early anthropologists to be pristine examples a “negrito” substrate humanity that existed throughout Southeast Asia. Despite over 150 years research and study, questions extent shared ancestry between Islanders other small-bodied, gracile, dark-skinned populations region are still unresolved. This phenotype could product history, evolutionary convergence, or mixture both. Recent population genetic studies have tended...
The debate concerning the origin of Polynesian speaking peoples has been recently reinvigorated by genetic evidence for secondary migrations to western Polynesia from New Guinea region during 2nd millennium BP. Using genome-wide autosomal data Leeward Society Islands, ancient cultural hub eastern Polynesia, we find that inhabitants' genomes also demonstrate this episode admixture, dating 1,700-1,200 This supports a late settlement chronology commencing ~1,000 BP, after internal...