The Genetic Echo of the Tarim Mummies in Modern Central Asians

© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution..

The diversity of Central Asians has been shaped by multiple migrations and cultural diffusion. Although ancient DNA studies have revealed the demographic changes of the Central Asian since the Bronze Age, the contribution of the ancient populations to the modern Central Asian remains opaque. Herein, we performed high-coverage sequencing of 131 whole genomes of Indo-European-speaking Tajik and Turkic-speaking Kyrgyz populations to explore their genomic diversity and admixture history. By integrating the ancient DNA data, we revealed more details of the origins and admixture history of Central Asians. We found that the major ancestry of present-day Tajik populations can be traced back to the admixture of the Bronze Age Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex and Andronovo-related populations. Highland Tajik populations further received additional gene flow from the Tarim mummies, an isolated ancient North Eurasian-related population. The West Eurasian ancestry of Kyrgyz is mainly derived from Historical Era populations in Xinjiang of China. Furthermore, the recent admixture signals detected in both Tajik and Kyrgyz are ascribed to the expansions of Eastern Steppe nomadic pastoralists during the Historical Era.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

Enthalten in:

Molecular biology and evolution - 39(2022), 9 vom: 01. Sept.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Dai, Shan-Shan [VerfasserIn]
Sulaiman, Xierzhatijiang [VerfasserIn]
Isakova, Jainagul [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Wei-Fang [VerfasserIn]
Abdulloevich, Najmudinov Tojiddin [VerfasserIn]
Afanasevna, Manilova Elena [VerfasserIn]
Ibrohimovich, Khudoidodov Behruz [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xi [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Wei-Kang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Ming-Shan [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Quan-Kuan [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xing-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Yong-Gang [VerfasserIn]
Aldashev, Almaz A [VerfasserIn]
Saidov, Abdusattor [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Lu-Feng [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Min-Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ya-Ping [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Admixture
Central Asia
DNA, Ancient
Genome
Journal Article
Kyrgyz
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Steppe
Tajik
Tarim

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Date Completed 15.09.2022

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/molbev/msac179

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345247957