1. Jomon genome sheds light on East Asian population history
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Shigeki Nakagome, Morten E. Allentoft, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Minoru Yoneda, Takehiro Sato, Hajime Ishida, Ryosuke Kimura, Simon Rasmussen, Blánaid Ní Chuinneagáin, Atsushi Toyoda, Hiromi Shitara, Takashi Gakuhari, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Hiroki Oota, Eske Willerslev, Toshiyuki Tsurumoto, Ryan Schmidt, Yasuhiro Yamada, Tetsuaki Wakebe, Martin Sikora, Hiroki Shibata, Osamu Kondo, Nobuo Shigehara, Kae Koganebuchi, Souichiro Mizushima, Yoshiyuki Masuyama, Hiromi Matsumae, and Atsushi Tajima
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0303 health sciences ,education.field_of_study ,060101 anthropology ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Lineage (evolution) ,Population ,06 humanities and the arts ,Genome ,Indigenous ,Southeast asia ,03 medical and health sciences ,Geography ,Archipelago ,Ethnology ,Biological dispersal ,0601 history and archaeology ,East Asia ,education ,030304 developmental biology - Abstract
Anatomical modern humans reached East Asia by >40,000 years ago (kya). However, key questions still remain elusive with regard to the route(s) and the number of wave(s) in the dispersal into East Eurasia. Ancient genomes at the edge of East Eurasia may shed light on the detail picture of peopling to East Eurasia. Here, we analyze the whole-genome sequence of a 2.5 kya individual (IK002) characterized with a typical Jomon culture that started in the Japanese archipelago >16 kya. The phylogenetic analyses support multiple waves of migration, with IK002 forming a lineage basal to the rest of the ancient/present-day East Eurasians examined, likely to represent some of the earliest-wave migrants who went north toward East Asia from Southeast Asia. Furthermore, IK002 has the extra genetic affinity with the indigenous Taiwan aborigines, which may support a coastal route of the Jomon-ancestry migration from Southeast Asia to the Japanese archipelago. This study highlight the power of ancient genomics with the isolated population to provide new insights into complex history in East Eurasia.
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- 2019
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