Long-term genetic stability and a high-altitude East Asian origin for the peoples of the high valleys of the Himalayan arc

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 27, 2016, Pages 7485-7490

  Jeong, Choongwon ^a   Ozga, Andrew T ^b   Witonsky, David B ^a   Malmström, Helena ^c   Edlund, Hanna ^c   Hofman, Courtney A ^b   Hagan, Richard W ^b   Jakobsson, Mattias ^c   Lewis, Cecil M ^b   Aldenderfer, Mark S ^d   Rienzo, Anna Di ^a   Warinner, Christina ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; EGLN1; EPAS1; High altitude; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALTITUDE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; EAST ASIAN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC STABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLOGY; PAKISTANI; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME HAPLOGROUP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; HUMAN GENOME; NEPAL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; TIBET;

ALTITUDE; GENE FLOW; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; NEPAL; PALEODONTOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIBET;

EID: 84977279989     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520844113     Document Type: Article

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