Population genetics of the European Roma—a review

GF Ena, J Aizpurua-Iraola, N Font-Porterias, F Calafell… - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Roma are a group of populations with a common origin that share the Romani identity
and cultural heritage. Their genetic history has been inferred through multiple studies based …

Unity in diversity: an overview of the genomic anthropology of India

SS Mastana - Annals of human biology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Context: India is considered a treasure for geneticists and evolutionary biologists due to its
vast human diversity, consisting of more than 4500 anthropologically well-defined …

A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased dispersals

M Silva, M Oliveira, D Vieira, A Brandão, T Rito… - BMC evolutionary …, 2017 - Springer
Background India is a patchwork of tribal and non-tribal populations that speak many
different languages from various language families. Indo-European, spoken across northern …

Using Y-chromosome capture enrichment to resolve haplogroup H2 shows new evidence for a two-path Neolithic expansion to Western Europe

AB Rohrlach, L Papac, A Childebayeva, M Rivollat… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Uniparentally-inherited markers on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the non-recombining
regions of the Y chromosome (NRY), have been used for the past 30 years to investigate the …

[图书][B] Gypsies: An English History

D Cressy - 2018 - degruyter.com
David Cressy's great-grandmother was a Gypsy and grew up in a horse-drawn van among
Victorian tinsmiths and basket-weavers. After her marriage to a builder's labourer she settled …

Reconstructing Roma history from genome-wide data

P Moorjani, N Patterson, PR Loh, M Lipson, P Kisfali… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Roma people, living throughout Europe and West Asia, are a diverse population linked
by the Romani language and culture. Previous linguistic and genetic studies have …

Recent common origin, reduced population size, and marked admixture have shaped European Roma genomes

E Bianco, G Laval, N Font-Porterias… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Roma Diaspora—traditionally known as Gypsies—remains among the least
explored population migratory events in historical times. It involved the migration of Roma …

Complete genome sequence of germline chromosomally integrated human herpesvirus 6A and analyses integration sites define a new human endogenous virus with …

J Tweedy, MA Spyrou, M Pearson, D Lassner, U Kuhl… - Viruses, 2016 - mdpi.com
Human herpesvirus-6A and B (HHV-6A, HHV-6B) have recently defined endogenous
genomes, resulting from integration into the germline: chromosomally-integrated “CiHHV …

Sex-biased patterns shaped the genetic history of Roma

C García-Fernández, N Font-Porterias, V Kučinskas… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The Roma population is a European ethnic minority characterized by recent and multiple
dispersals and founder effects. After their origin in South Asia around 1,500 years ago, they …

Prevalence of diabetes mellitus among Roma populations—a systematic review

MA Nunes, K Kučerová, O Lukáč, M Kvapil… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Background: The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the
Roma population and compare it to the prevalence in the Caucasian population. Methods …