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A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased d...
Silva, M; Oliveira, M; Vieira, D; Brandão, A; Rito, T; Pereira, JB; Fraser, RM; Hudson, B; Gandini, F; Edwards, C; Pala, M; Koch, J; Wilson, JFBackground: India is a patchwork of tribal and non-tribal populations that speak many different languages from various language families. Indo-European, spoken across northern and central India, and also in Pakistan and Bangladesh, has been frequently connected to the so-called “Indo-Aryan invasions” from Central Asia ~3.5 ka and the establishment of the caste system, but the extent of immigration at this time ...
Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritag...
Brandão, A; Eng, KK; Rito, T; Cavadas, B; Bulbeck, D; Gandini, F; Pala, M; Mormina, M; Hudson, B; White, J; Ko, T-M; Saidin, M; Zafarina, ZThere has been a long-standing debate concerning the extent to which the spread of Neolithic ceramics and Malay-Polynesian languages in Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) were coupled to an agriculturally driven demic dispersal out of Taiwan 4000 years ago (4 ka). We previously addressed this question using founder analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control-region sequences to identify major lineage clusters most ...