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ArticleScientific reports2017

Mapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia.

Daniel E Platt, Marc Haber, Magda Bou Dagher-Kharrat, Bouchra Douaihy, Georges Khazen, Maziar Ashrafian Bonab, Angélique Salloum, Francis Mouzaya, Donata Luiselli, Chris Tyler-Smith and 3 more

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Daniel E PlattComputational Biology Center, IBM TJ Watson Research Centre, Yorktown Hgts, NY, USA.
Marc HaberThe Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon.
Magda Bou Dagher-KharratDépartement Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Université Saint-Joseph, Mkalles, Lebanon.
Bouchra DouaihyThe Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon.
Georges KhazenThe Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon.
Maziar Ashrafian BonabUniversity of Portsmouth, School of Biological Sciences, Portsmouth PO1 2DY, UK.
Angélique SalloumThe Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon.
Francis MouzayaThe Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon.
Donata LuiselliDepartment of Evolutionary Experimental Biology, Via Selmi, 340126 Bologna, Italy.
Chris Tyler-SmithThe Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
Colin RenfrewMcDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK.
Elizabeth Matisoo-SmithDepartment of Anatomy and Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Pierre A ZallouaThe Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon.

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Wellcome Trust 098051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Archaeological, palaeontological and geological evidence shows that post-glacial warming released human populations from their various climate-bound refugia. Yet specific connections between these refugia and the timing and routes of post-glacial migrations that ultimately established modern patterns of genetic variation remain elusive. Here, we use Y-chromosome markers combined with autosomal data to reconstruct population expansions from regional refugia in Southwest Asia. Populations from three regions in particular possess distinctive autosomal genetic signatures indicative of likely refugia: one, in the north, centered around the eastern coast of the Black Sea, the second, with a more Levantine focus, and the third in the southern Arabian Peninsula. Modern populations from these three regions carry the widest diversity and may indeed represent the most likely descendants of the populations responsible for the Neolithic cultures of Southwest Asia. We reveal the distinct and datable expansion routes of populations from these three refugia throughout Southwest Asia and into Europe and North Africa and discuss the possible correlations of these migrations to various cultural and climatic events evident in the archaeological record of the past 15,000 years.

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