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Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritag...
Brandão, Andreia; Eng, Ken Khong; Rito, Teresa S; Cavadas, Bruno; Bulbeck, David; Gandini, Francesca; Pala, Maria; Mormina, Maru; Hudson, BobThere 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 ...
Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian‑speaking populations
Soares, Pedro; Trejaut, Jean A.; Rito, Teresa S; Cavadas, Bruno; Hill, Catherine; Eng, Ken Khong; Mormina, Maru; Brandão, Andreia; Fraser, Ross M.There are two very different interpretations of the prehistory of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA), with genetic evidence invoked in support of both. The "out-of-Taiwan" model proposes a major Late Holocene expansion of Neolithic Austronesian speakers from Taiwan. An alternative, proposing that Late Glacial/postglacial sea-level rises triggered largely autochthonous dispersals, accounts for some otherwise enigmatic...
Mosaic maternal ancestry in the Great Lakes region of East Africa
Gomes, Verónica; Pala, Maria; Salas, Antonio; Álvarez‑Iglesias, Vanesa; Amorim, António; Gómez‑Carballa, Alberto; Carracedo, Ángel; Clarke, Douglas J.The Great Lakes lie within a region of East Africa with very high human genetic diversity, home of many ethno-linguistic groups usually assumed to be the product of a small number of major dispersals. However, our knowledge of these dispersals relies primarily on the inferences of historical, linguistics and oral traditions, with attempts to match up the archaeological evidence where possible. This is an obviou...