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A small cohort of Island Southeast Asian women founded Madagascar.
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- Contrasting Linguistic and Genetic Origins of the Asian Source Populations of Malagasy.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome suggest the settlement of Madagascar by Indonesian sea nomad populations.BMC genomics · 2015Article
- Natural selection for the Duffy-null allele in the recently admixed people of Madagascar.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2014Article
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- Determination of population origin: a comparison of autosomal SNPs, Y-chromosomal and mtDNA haplogroups using a Malagasy population as example.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2013Article
- Stone tools and foraging in northern Madagascar challenge Holocene extinction models.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
- Indian Ocean crossroads: human genetic origin and population structure in the Maldives.American journal of physical anthropology · 2013Article
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Abstract
The settlement of Madagascar is one of the most unusual, and least understood, episodes in human prehistory. Madagascar was one of the last landmasses to be reached by people, and despite the island's location just off the east coast of Africa, evidence from genetics, language and culture all attests that it was settled jointly by Africans, and more surprisingly, Indonesians. Nevertheless, extremely little is known about the settlement process itself. Here, we report broad geographical screening of Malagasy and Indonesian genetic variation, from which we infer a statistically robust coalescent model of the island's initial settlement. Maximum-likelihood estimates favour a scenario in which Madagascar was settled approximately 1200 years ago by a very small group of women (approx. 30), most of Indonesian descent (approx. 93%). This highly restricted founding population raises the possibility that Madagascar was settled not as a large-scale planned colonization event from Indonesia, but rather through a small, perhaps even unintended, transoceanic crossing.
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