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The genetic legacy of the Yaghnobis: A witness of an ancient Eurasian ancestry in the historically reshuffled central Asian gene pool.

Elisabetta CilliStefania SarnoGuido Alberto Gnecchi RusconePatrizia ServentiSara De FantiPaolo DelainiPaolo OgnibeneGian Pietro BaselloGloria RavegniniSabrina AngeliniGianmarco FerriDavide GentiliniAnna Maria Di BlasioSusi PelottiDavide PettenerMarco SazziniAntonio PanainoDonata LuiselliGiorgio Gruppioni
Published in: American journal of physical anthropology (2019)
Although the Yaghnobis do not show evident signs of recent admixture, they could be considered a modern proxy for the source of gene flow for many Central Asian and Middle Eastern groups. Accordingly, they seem to retain a peculiar genomic ancestry probably ascribable to an ancient gene pool originally wide spread across a vast area and subsequently reshuffled by distinct demographic events occurred in Middle East and Central Asia.
Keyphrases
  • copy number
  • genome wide
  • genome wide identification
  • transcription factor
  • genome wide analysis