Divergence of East Asians and Europeans Estimated Using Male- and Female-Specific Genetic Markers
| Autor: | Yoshio Tateno, Akira Oka, Yuko Haida, Tomoyoshi Komiyama, Batmunkh Munkhbat, Gen Tamiya, Hidetoshi Inoko, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Toru Katoh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Genetic Markers
Male East Asians Lineage (evolution) mitochondrial DNA Biology DNA Mitochondrial White People Evolution Molecular human evolution Asian People Phylogenetics Genetics Humans East Asia Y-STR Clade Phylogeny Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Chromosomes Human Y Europeans Phylogenetic tree Haplotype individual lineages Haplotypes Human evolution Evolutionary biology Genome Mitochondrial Female Research Article Microsatellite Repeats |
| Zdroj: | Genome Biology and Evolution |
| ISSN: | 1759-6653 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/gbe/evu027 |
| Popis: | To study the male and female lineages of East Asian and European humans, we have sequenced 25 short tandem repeat markers on 453 Y-chromosomes and collected sequences of 72 complete mitochondrial genomes to construct independent phylogenetic trees for male and female lineages. The results indicate that East Asian individuals fall into two clades, one that includes East Asian individuals only and a second that contains East Asian and European individuals. Surprisingly, the European individuals did not form an independent clade, but branched within in the East Asians. We then estimated the divergence time of the root of the European clade as ∼ 41,000 years ago. These data indicate that, contrary to traditional views, Europeans diverged from East Asians around that time. We also address the origin of the Ainu lineage in northern Japan. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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