Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages

M Robbeets, R Bouckaert, M Conte, A Savelyev, T Li… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese,
Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian …

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

Origin of ethnic groups, linguistic families, and civilizations in China viewed from the Y chromosome

X Yu, H Li - Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2021 - Springer
East Asia, geographically extending to the Pamir Plateau in the west, to the Himalayan
Mountains in the southwest, to Lake Baikal in the north and to the South China Sea in the …

Human evolutionary history in Eastern Eurasia using insights from ancient DNA

M Zhang, Q Fu - Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2020 - Elsevier
Advances in ancient genomics are providing unprecedented insight into modern human
history. Here, we review recent progress uncovering prehistoric populations in Eastern …

Estimating selection coefficients in spatially structured populations from time series data of allele frequencies

I Mathieson, G McVean - Genetics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Inferring the nature and magnitude of selection is an important problem in many biological
contexts. Typically when estimating a selection coefficient for an allele, it is assumed that …

Peopling history of the Tibetan Plateau and multiple waves of admixture of Tibetans inferred from both ancient and modern genome-wide data

G He, M Wang, X Zou, P Chen, Z Wang, Y Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Archeologically attested human occupation on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) can be traced back
to 160 thousand years ago (kya) via the archaic Xiahe people and 30∼ 40 kya via the Nwya …

Mitochondrial DNA of domesticated sheep confirms pastoralist component of Afanasievo subsistence economy in the Altai Mountains (3300–2900 cal BC)

TR Hermes, AA Tishkin, PA Kosintsev… - … Research in Asia, 2020 - Elsevier
The initial spread of pastoralist subsistence to Inner Asia remains poorly defined due in part
to limited research on settlement sites dating to the Eneolithic period (ca. 3600–2900 cal …

The earliest herders of East Asia: examining Afanasievo entry to Central Mongolia

W Honeychurch, L Rogers, C Amartuvshin… - … Research in Asia, 2021 - Elsevier
The Afanasievo world reportedly overlaps the borders of five nations including two countries
of East Asia: Mongolia and China. Across these several regions, the first appearance of …

Genomic insights into the demographic history of the Southern Chinese

X Huang, ZY Xia, X Bin, G He, J Guo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Southern China is the birthplace of rice-cultivating agriculture and different language
families and has also witnessed various human migrations that facilitated cultural diffusions …

Indian genetic heritage in Southeast Asian populations

P Changmai, K Jaisamut, J Kampuansai… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The great ethnolinguistic diversity found today in mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) reflects
multiple migration waves of people in the past. Maritime trading between MSEA and India …