A Neolithic expansion, but strong genetic structure, in the independent history of New Guinea
| Autor: | Michael P. Alpers, Yali Xue, Anders Bergström, Alexander J. Mentzer, George Koki, Peter Siba, Robert Attenborough, Chris Tyler-Smith, Manjinder S. Sandhu, Kathryn J. H. Robson, William Pomat, Stephen Oppenheimer, Kathryn Auckland |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Attenborough, Robert [0000-0001-6827-943X], Sandhu, Manjinder [0000-0002-2725-142X], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Genotype Genotyping Techniques Genetic Structures Population structure Ethnic group Ethnic Groups Biology Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Plant cultivation 03 medical and health sciences Papua New Guinea 0302 clinical medicine parasitic diseases Ethnicity Population growth Humans Occupations Life Style History Ancient Language Multidisciplinary Linguistic diversity New guinea Linguistics 030104 developmental biology Genetic structure FOS: Languages and literature Period (geology) Ethnology geographic locations 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Science. 357(6356) |
| ISSN: | 1095-9203 0036-8075 |
| Popis: | New Guinea shows human occupation since ~50 thousand years ago (ka), independent adoption of plant cultivation ~10 ka, and great cultural and linguistic diversity today. We performed genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping on 381 individuals from 85 language groups in Papua New Guinea and find a sharp divide originating 10 to 20 ka between lowland and highland groups and a lack of non-New Guinean admixture in the latter. All highlanders share ancestry within the last 10 thousand years, with major population growth in the same period, suggesting population structure was reshaped following the Neolithic lifestyle transition. However, genetic differentiation between groups in Papua New Guinea is much stronger than in comparable regions in Eurasia, demonstrating that such a transition does not necessarily limit the genetic and linguistic diversity of human societies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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