TY - JOUR
T1 - Y-chromosome lineages trace diffusion of people and languages in southwestern Asia
AU - Quintana-Murci, Lluís
AU - Krausz, Csilla
AU - Zerjal, Tatiana
AU - Hamid Sayar, S. Hamid
AU - Hammer, Michael F.
AU - Qasim Mehdi, S. Qasim
AU - Ayub, Qasim
AU - Qamar, Raheel
AU - Mohyuddin, Aisha
AU - Radhakhrishna, Uppala
AU - Jobling, Mark A.
AU - Tyler-Smith, Chris
AU - McElreavey, Ken
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Evelyne Heyer, François Jacquesson, and Chris Ottolenghi for fruitful discussions, and we thank two anonymous reviewers for helpful remarks. We are grateful to Christiana Di Rocco for help with the Y-chromosome STR typing. We acknowledge support from Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale and Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (to L.Q.-M., C.K., and K.M.), Telethon Italy, grant 281/b (to C.K.), The Wellcome Trust (to T.Z., S.Q.M., Q.A., R.Q., and A.M.) and the Cancer Research Campaign (to C.T.-S.). M.A.J. is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow supported by grant 057559.
PY - 2001/2
Y1 - 2001/2
N2 - The origins and dispersal of farming and pastoral nomadism in southwestern Asia are complex, and there is controversy about whether they were associated with cultural transmission or demic diffusion. In addition, the spread of these technological innovations has been associated with the dispersal of Dravidian and Indo-Iranian languages in southwestern Asia. Here we present genetic evidence for the occurrence of two major population movements, supporting a model of demic diffusion of early farmers from southwestern Iran - and of pastoral nomads from western and central Asia - into India, associated with Dravidian and Indo-European-language dispersals, respectively.
AB - The origins and dispersal of farming and pastoral nomadism in southwestern Asia are complex, and there is controversy about whether they were associated with cultural transmission or demic diffusion. In addition, the spread of these technological innovations has been associated with the dispersal of Dravidian and Indo-Iranian languages in southwestern Asia. Here we present genetic evidence for the occurrence of two major population movements, supporting a model of demic diffusion of early farmers from southwestern Iran - and of pastoral nomads from western and central Asia - into India, associated with Dravidian and Indo-European-language dispersals, respectively.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0035128066
U2 - 10.1086/318200
DO - 10.1086/318200
M3 - Article
C2 - 11133362
AN - SCOPUS:0035128066
SN - 0002-9297
VL - 68
SP - 537
EP - 542
JO - American Journal of Human Genetics
JF - American Journal of Human Genetics
IS - 2
ER -