Paternal gene pool of Malays in Southeast Asia and its applications for the early expansion of Austronesians
Paternal gene pool of Malays in Southeast Asia and its applications for the early expansion of Austronesians
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东南亚马来人父系基因库及其在南岛人早期扩张中的应用
DOI:
10.1002/ajhb.23486
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Li Hui
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文献类型:
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作者:
Sun Jin;Wei Lan-Hai;Wang Ling-Xiang;Huang Yun-Zhi;Yan Shi;Cheng Hui-Zhen;Ong Rick Twee-Hee;Saw Woei-Yuh;Fan Zhi-Quan;Deng Xiao-Hua;Lu Yan;Zhang Chao;Xu Shu-Hua;Jin Li;Teo Yik-Ying;Li Hui
ObjectivesThe origin and differentiation of Austronesian populations and their languages have long fascinated linguists, archeologists, and geneticists. However, the founding process of Austronesians and when they separated from their close relatives, such as the Daic and Austro‐Asiatic populations in the mainland of Asia, remain unclear. In this study, we explored the paternal origin of Malays in Southeast Asia and the early differentiation of Austronesians.Materials and MethodsWe generated whole Y‐chromosome sequences of 50 Malays and co‐analyzed 200 sequences from other Austronesians and related populations. We generated a revised phylogenetic tree with time estimation.ResultsWe identified six founding paternal lineages among the studied Malays samples. These founding lineages showed a surprisingly coincident expansion age at 5000 to 6000 years ago. We also found numerous mostly close related samples of the founding lineages of Malays among populations from Mainland of Asia.ConclusionOur analyses provided a refined phylogenetic resolution for the dominant paternal lineages of Austronesians found by previous studies. We suggested that the co‐expansion of numerous founding paternal lineages corresponds to the initial differentiation of the most recent common ancestor of modern Austronesians. The splitting time and divergence pattern in perspective of paternal Y‐chromosome evidence are highly consistent with the previous theories of ethnologists, linguists, and archeologists.