Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events
Afghanistan has held a strategic position throughout history. It has been inhabited since the Paleolithic and later became a crossroad for expanding civilizations and empires. Afghanistan's location, history, and diverse ethnic groups present a unique opportunity to explore how nations and ethn...
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| author2 | Platt, Daniel E. Bonab, Maziar Ashrafian Youhanna, Sonia C. Soria-Hernanz, David F. Martínez-Cruz, Begona Douaihy, Bouchra Ghassibe-Sabbagh, Michella Rafatpanah, Hoshang Ghanbari, Mohsen Whale, John Balanovsky, Oleg Spencer Wells, R. Comas, David Tyler-Smith, Chris Zalloua, Pierre A. |
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| author_facet | Haber, Marc Platt, Daniel E. Bonab, Maziar Ashrafian Youhanna, Sonia C. Soria-Hernanz, David F. Martínez-Cruz, Begona Douaihy, Bouchra Ghassibe-Sabbagh, Michella Rafatpanah, Hoshang Ghanbari, Mohsen Whale, John Balanovsky, Oleg Spencer Wells, R. Comas, David Tyler-Smith, Chris Zalloua, Pierre A. |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Haber, Marc Platt, Daniel E. Bonab, Maziar Ashrafian Youhanna, Sonia C. Soria-Hernanz, David F. Martínez-Cruz, Begona Douaihy, Bouchra Ghassibe-Sabbagh, Michella Rafatpanah, Hoshang Ghanbari, Mohsen Whale, John Balanovsky, Oleg Spencer Wells, R. Comas, David Tyler-Smith, Chris Zalloua, Pierre A. |
| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2012 2019-07-25T06:20:46Z 2019-07-25T06:20:46Z 2019-07-25 |
| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | 1932-6203 http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11138 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034288 Haber, M., Platt, D. E., Bonab, M. A., Youhanna, S. C., Soria-Hernanz, D. F., Martínez-Cruz, B., ... & Whale, J. (2012). Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events. PloS one, 7(3), e34288. http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034288 |
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| description | Afghanistan has held a strategic position throughout history. It has been inhabited since the Paleolithic and later became a crossroad for expanding civilizations and empires. Afghanistan's location, history, and diverse ethnic groups present a unique opportunity to explore how nations and ethnic groups emerged, and how major cultural evolutions and technological developments in human history have influenced modern population structures. In this study we have analyzed, for the first time, the four major ethnic groups in present-day Afghanistan: Hazara, Pashtun, Tajik, and Uzbek, using 52 binary markers and 19 short tandem repeats on the non-recombinant segment of the Y-chromosome. A total of 204 Afghan samples were investigated along with more than 8,500 samples from surrounding populations important to Afghanistan's history through migrations and conquests, including Iranians, Greeks, Indians, Middle Easterners, East Europeans, and East Asians. Our results suggest that all current Afghans largely share a heritage derived from a common unstructured ancestral population that could have emerged during the Neolithic revolution and the formation of the first farming communities. Our results also indicate that inter-Afghan differentiation started during the Bronze Age, probably driven by the formation of the first civilizations in the region. Later migrations and invasions into the region have been assimilated differentially among the ethnic groups, increasing inter-population genetic differences, and giving the Afghans a unique genetic diversity in Central Asia. |
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| spelling | Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical eventsHaber, MarcPlatt, Daniel E.Bonab, Maziar AshrafianYouhanna, Sonia C.Soria-Hernanz, David F.Martínez-Cruz, BegonaDouaihy, BouchraGhassibe-Sabbagh, MichellaRafatpanah, HoshangGhanbari, MohsenWhale, JohnBalanovsky, OlegSpencer Wells, R.Comas, DavidTyler-Smith, ChrisZalloua, Pierre A.Afghanistan has held a strategic position throughout history. It has been inhabited since the Paleolithic and later became a crossroad for expanding civilizations and empires. Afghanistan's location, history, and diverse ethnic groups present a unique opportunity to explore how nations and ethnic groups emerged, and how major cultural evolutions and technological developments in human history have influenced modern population structures. In this study we have analyzed, for the first time, the four major ethnic groups in present-day Afghanistan: Hazara, Pashtun, Tajik, and Uzbek, using 52 binary markers and 19 short tandem repeats on the non-recombinant segment of the Y-chromosome. A total of 204 Afghan samples were investigated along with more than 8,500 samples from surrounding populations important to Afghanistan's history through migrations and conquests, including Iranians, Greeks, Indians, Middle Easterners, East Europeans, and East Asians. Our results suggest that all current Afghans largely share a heritage derived from a common unstructured ancestral population that could have emerged during the Neolithic revolution and the formation of the first farming communities. Our results also indicate that inter-Afghan differentiation started during the Bronze Age, probably driven by the formation of the first civilizations in the region. Later migrations and invasions into the region have been assimilated differentially among the ethnic groups, increasing inter-population genetic differences, and giving the Afghans a unique genetic diversity in Central Asia.PublishedN/A2019-07-25T06:20:46Z2019-07-25T06:20:46Z20122019-07-25Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article1932-6203http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11138https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034288Haber, M., Platt, D. E., Bonab, M. A., Youhanna, S. C., Soria-Hernanz, D. F., Martínez-Cruz, B., ... & Whale, J. (2012). Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events. PloS one, 7(3), e34288.http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.phphttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034288enPlos oneinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/111382021-03-19T10:47:35Z |
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| title | Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events |
| title_full | Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events |
| title_fullStr | Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events |
| title_full_unstemmed | Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events |
| title_short | Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events |
| title_sort | Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11138 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034288 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0034288 |