Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia.

ABSTRACT: The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people^1,2. Here we report genome-wide data from 166 East Asian individuals dating to between 6000 BC and AD 1000 and 46 present-day groups. Hunter-gatherers from Japan, the Amur River Basin, and people of Neolithic and Iron Age Taiwan and the Tibetan Plateau are linked by a deeply splitting lineage that probably reflects a coastal migration during the Late Pleistocene epoch. We also follow expansions during the subsequent Holocene epoch from four regions. First, hunter-gatherers from Mongolia and the Amur River Basin have ancestry shared by individuals who speak Mongolic and Tungusic languages, but do not carry ancestry characteristic of farme

SUBMITTER: Wang CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7993749 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature