Fine‐scale north‐to‐south genetic admixture profile in Shaanxi Han Chinese revealed by genome‐wide demographic history reconstruction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanglin He ◽  
Mengge Wang ◽  
Yingxiang Li ◽  
Xing Zou ◽  
Hui‐Yuan Yeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Demographic History ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Genetic Admixture ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Genome Wide

Fine‐scale genetic structure of Tujia and central Han Chinese revealing massive genetic admixture under language borrowing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang‐Lin He ◽  
Ying‐Xiang Li ◽  
Meng‐Ge Wang ◽  
Xing Zou ◽  
Hui‐Yuan Yeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Structure ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Genetic Admixture ◽  
Fine Scale

scholarly journals The genetic scenario of Mercheros: an under-represented group within the Iberian Peninsula

BMC Genomics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Flores-Bello ◽  
Neus Font-Porterias ◽  
Julen Aizpurua-Iraola ◽  
Sara Duarri-Redondo ◽  
David Comas
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Minority Ethnic Group ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Y Chromosome Str ◽  
Western Eurasia

Abstract Background The general picture of human genetic variation has been vastly depicted in the last years, yet many populations remain broadly understudied. In this work, we analyze for the first time the Merchero population, a Spanish minority ethnic group that has been scarcely studied and historically persecuted. Mercheros have been roughly characterised by an itinerant history, common traditional occupations, and the usage of their own language. Results Here, we examine the demographic history and genetic scenario of Mercheros, by using genome-wide array data, whole mitochondrial sequences, and Y chromosome STR markers from 25 individuals. These samples have been complemented with a wide-range of present-day populations from Western Eurasia and North Africa. Our results show that the genetic diversity of Mercheros is explained within the context of the Iberian Peninsula, evidencing a modest signal of Roma admixture. In addition, Mercheros present low genetic isolation and intrapopulation heterogeneity. Conclusions This study represents the first genetic characterisation of the Merchero population, depicting their fine-scale ancestry components and genetic scenario within the Iberian Peninsula. Since ethnicity is not only influenced by genetic ancestry but also cultural factors, other studies from multiple disciplines are needed to further explore the Merchero population. As with Mercheros, there is a considerable gap of underrepresented populations and ethnic groups in publicly available genetic data. Thus, we encourage the consideration of more ethnically diverse population panels in human genetic studies, as an attempt to improve the representation of human populations and better reconstruct their fine-scale history.

scholarly journals Fine-scale Population Structure and Demographic History of Han Chinese Inferred from Haplotype Network of 111,000 Genomes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ao Lan ◽  
Kang Kang ◽  
Senwei Tang ◽  
Xiaoli Wu ◽  
Lizhong Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Haplotype Network ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Genetic Barrier ◽  
Scale Population ◽  
History Of ◽  
Linguistic Segregation

ABSTRACTHan Chinese is the most populated ethnic group across the globe with a comprehensive substructure that resembles its cultural diversification. Studies have constructed the genetic polymorphism spectrum of Han Chinese, whereas high-resolution investigations are still missing to unveil its fine-scale substructure and trace the genetic imprints for its demographic history. Here we construct a haplotype network consisted of 111,000 genome-wide genotyped Han Chinese individuals from direct-to-consumer genetic testing and over 1.3 billion identity-by-descent (IBD) links. We observed a clear separation of the northern and southern Han Chinese and captured 5 subclusters and 17 sub-subclusters in haplotype network hierarchical clustering, corresponding to geography (especially mountain ranges), immigration waves, and clans with cultural-linguistic segregation. We inferred differentiated split histories and founder effects for population clans Cantonese, Hakka, and Minnan-Chaoshanese in southern China, and also unveiled more recent demographic events within the past few centuries, such as Zou Xikou and Chuang Guandong. The composition shifts of the native and current residents of four major metropolitans (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen) imply a rapidly vanished genetic barrier between subpopulations. Our study yields a fine-scale population structure of Han Chinese and provides profound insights into the nation’s genetic and cultural-linguistic multiformity.

scholarly journals New insights from the combined discrimination of modern/ancient genome-wide shared alleles and haplotypes: Differentiated demographic history reconstruction of Tai-Kadai and Sinitic people in South China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanglin He
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Yangtze River Basin ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
The Yangtze River Basin

Southern China was a region with mixed rice-millet farming during the Middle Neolithic period and also suggested to be the homeland of Tai-Kadai-speaking (TK) people. The archaeological evidence of animal and plant domestication has demonstrated that southern Chinese rice agriculturalists dispersed from the Yangtze River basin with the dissemination of TK, Austroasiatic (AA), Austronesian (AN) and Hmong-Mien (HM) languages. However, the formations of the inland TK-speaking people, central/southern Han Chinese and their relationships with Neolithic farmers from the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers (YR) basins are far from clear due to the limited sampling of South China. Here, we revealed the spatiotemporal demographic history of southern China by analyzing newly generated genome-wide data of 70 southeastern mainland TK speakers including Dong, Gelao and Bouyei and 45 southwestern Han Chinese together with comprehensive modern/ancient reference datasets. Southwest Han Chinese and Gelao demonstrated a closer genomic affinity to Neolithic YR farmers, while inland TKs (Dong and Bouyei) demonstrated a closer genomic affinity to coastal TK/AN-speaking islanders and Neolithic Yangtze farmers and their descendants. The shared genetic drift between inland TK/AN speaker highlighted a common origin of AN/TK groups, which may be descended from Tanshishan people or their predecessors (Xitoucun). Additionally, we found that inland TK/Sinitic could be modelled as an admixture of ancestral northern East Asian (ANEA) and ancestral southern East Asian (ASEA) sources with different proportions, in which the ANEA was phylogenetically closer to Neolithic millet farmers deriving from the YR Basin and the ASEA was phylogenetically closer to Coastal Neolithic-to-modern southern East Asians. Finally, we discovered genetic differentiation among TK people from southern China and Southeast Asia and obvious substructures between northern and southern inland Chinese TK people. The observed patterns of the spatiotemporal distribution of the northern and southern East Asian lineages in Central/southern China were also compatible with the scenario of bi-directional gene flow events from ANEA and ASEA. Conclusively, multiple lines of genomic evidence indicated millet farmers deriving from the YR basin and rice farmers deriving from the Yangtze River basin substantially contributed to the present-day mainland TK speakers and Central/southern Han Chinese, and formed the modern dual genetic admixture profile.

scholarly journals Fine-Scale Genetic Structure and Natural Selection Signatures of Southwestern Hans Inferred From Patterns of Genome-Wide Allele, Haplotype, and Haplogroup Lineages

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengge Wang ◽  
Didi Yuan ◽  
Xing Zou ◽  
Zheng Wang ◽  
Hui-Yuan Yeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Selection Signatures ◽  
East Asians ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
History Of

The evolutionary and admixture history of Han Chinese have been widely discussed via traditional autosomal and uniparental genetic markers [e.g., short tandem repeats, low-density single nucleotide polymorphisms). However, their fine-scale genetic landscapes (admixture scenarios and natural selection signatures) based on the high-density allele/haplotype sharing patterns have not been deeply characterized. Here, we collected and generated genome-wide data of 50 Han Chinese individuals from four populations in Guizhou Province, one of the most ethnolinguistically diverse regions, and merged it with over 3,000 publicly available modern and ancient Eurasians to describe the genetic origin and population admixture history of Guizhou Hans and their neighbors. PCA and ADMIXTURE results showed that the studied four populations were homogeneous and grouped closely to central East Asians. Genetic homogeneity within Guizhou populations was further confirmed via the observed strong genetic affinity with inland Hmong-Mien people through the observed genetic clade in Fst and outgroup f3/f4-statistics. qpGraph-based phylogenies and f4-based demographic models illuminated that Guizhou Hans were well fitted via the admixture of ancient Yellow River Millet farmers related to Lajia people and southern Yangtze River farmers related to Hanben people. Further ChromoPainter-based chromosome painting profiles and GLOBETROTTER-based admixture signatures confirmed the two best source matches for southwestern Hans, respectively, from northern Shaanxi Hans and southern indigenes with variable mixture proportions in the historical period. Further three-way admixture models revealed larger genetic contributions from coastal southern East Asians into Guizhou Hans compared with the proposed inland ancient source from mainland Southeast Asia. We also identified candidate loci (e.g., MTUS2, NOTCH4, EDAR, ADH1B, and ABCG2) with strong natural selection signatures in Guizhou Hans via iHS, nSL, and ihh, which were associated with the susceptibility of the multiple complex diseases, morphology formation, alcohol and lipid metabolism. Generally, we provided a case and ideal strategy to reconstruct the detailed demographic evolutionary history of Guizhou Hans, which provided new insights into the fine-scale genomic formation of one ethnolinguistically specific targeted population from the comprehensive perspectives of the shared unlinked alleles, linked haplotypes, and paternal and maternal lineages.

scholarly journals Czechoslovakian Wolfdog Genomic Divergence from Its Ancestors Canis lupus, German Shepherd Dog, and Different Sheepdogs of European Origin

Genes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 832
Author(s):  
Nina Moravčíková ◽  
Radovan Kasarda ◽  
Radoslav Židek ◽  
Luboš Vostrý ◽  
Hana Vostrá-Vydrová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Demographic History ◽  
Genome Structure ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Genetic Distances ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
German Shepherd ◽  
German Shepherd Dog ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Scale Population ◽  
History Effect

This study focused on the genomic differences between the Czechoslovakian wolfdog (CWD) and its ancestors, the Grey wolf (GW) and German Shepherd dog. The Saarloos wolfdog and Belgian Shepherd dog were also included to study the level of GW genetics retained in the genome of domesticated breeds. The dataset consisted of 131 animals and 143,593 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The effects of demographic history on the overall genome structure were determined by screening the distribution of the homozygous segments. The genetic variance distributed within and between groups was quantified by genetic distances, the FST index, and discriminant analysis of principal components. Fine-scale population stratification due to specific morphological and behavioural traits was assessed by principal component and factorial analyses. In the CWD, a demographic history effect was manifested mainly in a high genome-wide proportion of short homozygous segments corresponding to a historical load of inbreeding derived from founders. The observed proportion of long homozygous segments indicated that the inbreeding events shaped the CWD genome relatively recently compared to other groups. Even if there was a significant increase in genetic similarity among wolf-like breeds, they were genetically separated from each other. Moreover, this study showed that the CWD genome carries private alleles that are not found in either wolves or other dog breeds analysed in this study.

The details are in the genome-wide SNPs: fine scale evolution of the Malaysian weedy rice

Plant Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110985
Author(s):  
Maggie Pui San Sudo ◽  
Rupini Yesudasan ◽  
Ting Xiang Neik ◽  
Dilipkumar Masilamany ◽  
Jayasyaliny Jayaraj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weedy Rice ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Scale Evolution

Abstract TP134: Genome Wide Association Studies in Han Chinese Populations Identify Novel Susceptibility Loci for Specific Ischemic Stroke Subtypes

Stroke ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tai-Ming Ko ◽  
Tsong-Hai Lee Lee ◽  
Chien-Hsiun Chen ◽  
Yuan-Tsong Chen ◽  
Jer-Yuarn Wu
Keyword(s):  
Ischemic Stroke ◽  
Chinese Population ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Genome Wide Association ◽  
Papillary Thyroid ◽  
Susceptibility Loci ◽  
Han Chinese Population ◽  
Chinese Populations ◽  
Genome Wide

Introduction: Although family history studies in ischemic stroke support that genetic factors may be involved in the pathogenesis of two major subtypes of ischemia stroke: large-artery atherosclerosis (LAA) and small-vessel occlusion (SVO), it is still unclear which particular genetic factors contribute to LAA or SVO. Hypothesis: Because the etiology of ischemic stroke is heterogeneous, we hypothesize that genetic factors may vary by etiologic subtypes or ethnicities. Thus, we aim to identify genetic factors that contribute to LAA or SVO based on two independent Han Chinese populations. Methods: Novel genetic variants that predispose individuals to LAA and SVO were identified by genome-wide association study comprising of 824 individuals (including 444 LAA cases and 380 SVO cases) and 1,727 controls in a Han Chinese population residing in Taiwan. The LAA study was replicated in an independent Han Chinese population comprising of an additional 319 LAA cases and 1,802 controls. Results: In LAA cases, from two independent populations, we identified five single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), including SNP-1 (P = 3.10 х 10–8), SNP-2 (P = 4.00 х 10–9), SNP-3 (P = 3.57 х 10–8), SNP-4 (P = 1.76 х 10–8), and SNP-5 (P = 2.92 х 10–8), at one novel locus on chromosome 14q13.3 within PTCSC3 (encoding papillary thyroid carcinoma susceptibility candidate 3). In SVO cases, from the discovery stage, we identified two novel candidate susceptibility loci on chromosome 3p25.3 (SNP-6, P = 3.24 х 10–5) and chromosome 14 q31.1 (SNP-7, P = 2.58 х 10–4). Conclusions: For LAA, the newly identified SNPs within PTCSC3 gene were found to have genome-wide statistical significance (P < 5 х 10–8) and were shown to be located in a risk locus correlated with papillary thyroid carcinoma. Moreover, the genetic association between PTCSC3 gene and SVO was not identified, which suggested that PTCSC3 is a specific susceptibility locus for LAA. For SVO, we identified two novel candidate genetic loci which were valuable for replication by an independent population with SVO. In conclusion, our findings provide insights into the genetic basis of LAA and SVO, which may be applicable in the study of the pathogenesis of ischemic stroke and in the development of alternative therapeutic interventions.

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