The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

VM Narasimhan, N Patterson, P Moorjani, N Rohland… - Science, 2019 - science.org
RATIONALE To elucidate the extent to which the major cultural transformations of farming,
pastoralism, and shifts in the distribution of languages in Eurasia were accompanied by …

Maternal ancestry and population history from whole mitochondrial genomes

T Kivisild - Investigative genetics, 2015 - Springer
MtDNA has been a widely used tool in human evolutionary and population genetic studies
over the past three decades. Its maternal inheritance and lack of recombination have offered …

Learning about human population history from ancient and modern genomes

M Stoneking, J Krause - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2011 - nature.com
Genome-wide data, both from SNP arrays and from complete genome sequencing, are
becoming increasingly abundant and are now even available from extinct hominins. These …

A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture

M Karmin, L Saag, M Vicente, MAW Sayres… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
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 …

Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years

A Seguin-Orlando, TS Korneliussen, M Sikora… - Science, 2014 - science.org
The origin of contemporary Europeans remains contentious. We obtained a genome
sequence from Kostenki 14 in European Russia dating from 38,700 to 36,200 years ago …

Genomic reconstruction of the history of extant populations of India reveals five distinct ancestral components and a complex structure

A Basu, N Sarkar-Roy… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
India, occupying the center stage of Paleolithic and Neolithic migrations, has been
underrepresented in genome-wide studies of variation. Systematic analysis of genome-wide …

Reconstructing the human genetic history of mainland Southeast Asia: insights from genome-wide data from Thailand and Laos

W Kutanan, D Liu, J Kampuansai… - Molecular biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Thailand and Laos, located in the center of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), harbor diverse
ethnolinguistic groups encompassing all five language families of MSEA: Tai-Kadai (TK) …

Shared and unique components of human population structure and genome-wide signals of positive selection in South Asia

M Metspalu, IG Romero, B Yunusbayev… - The American Journal of …, 2011 - cell.com
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 …

Prehistoric human migration between Sundaland and South Asia was driven by sea-level rise

HL Kim, T Li, N Kalsi, HTT Nguyen, TA Shaw… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Rapid sea-level rise between the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the mid-Holocene
transformed the Southeast Asian coastal landscape, but the impact on human demography …

[HTML][HTML] Afghan Hindu Kush: where Eurasian sub-continent gene flows converge

J Di Cristofaro, E Pennarun, S Mazières, NM Myres… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
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 …