Identifying genetic traces of historical expansions
The Phoenicians were the dominant traders in the Mediterranean Sea two thousand to three thousand years ago and expanded from their homeland in the Levant to establish colonies and trading posts throughout the Mediterranean, but then they disappeared from history. We wished to identify their male ge...
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| author | Zalloua, Pierre A. |
| author2 | Platt, Daniel E. El Sibai, Mirvat Khalife, Jade Makhoul, Nadine Haber, Marc Xue, Yali Izaabel, Hassan Bosch, Elena Adams, Susan M. Arroyo, Eduardo Lopez-Parra, Ana Maria Aler, Mercedes Picornell, Antonia Ramon, Misericordia Jobling, Mark A. Comas, David Bertranpetit, Jaume Tyler-Smith, Chris |
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| author_facet | Zalloua, Pierre A. Platt, Daniel E. El Sibai, Mirvat Khalife, Jade Makhoul, Nadine Haber, Marc Xue, Yali Izaabel, Hassan Bosch, Elena Adams, Susan M. Arroyo, Eduardo Lopez-Parra, Ana Maria Aler, Mercedes Picornell, Antonia Ramon, Misericordia Jobling, Mark A. Comas, David Bertranpetit, Jaume Tyler-Smith, Chris |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Zalloua, Pierre A. Platt, Daniel E. El Sibai, Mirvat Khalife, Jade Makhoul, Nadine Haber, Marc Xue, Yali Izaabel, Hassan Bosch, Elena Adams, Susan M. Arroyo, Eduardo Lopez-Parra, Ana Maria Aler, Mercedes Picornell, Antonia Ramon, Misericordia Jobling, Mark A. Comas, David Bertranpetit, Jaume Tyler-Smith, Chris |
| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2008 2019-07-18T11:09:48Z 2019-07-18T11:09:48Z 2019-07-18 |
| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | 1537-6605 http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11086 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.10.012 Zalloua, P. A., Platt, D. E., El Sibai, M., Khalife, J., Makhoul, N., Haber, M., ... & Arroyo, E. (2008). Identifying genetic traces of historical expansions: Phoenician footprints in the Mediterranean. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 83(5), 633-642. http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929708005478 |
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| dc.title.none.fl_str_mv | Identifying genetic traces of historical expansions Phoenician footprints in the Mediterranean |
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| description | The Phoenicians were the dominant traders in the Mediterranean Sea two thousand to three thousand years ago and expanded from their homeland in the Levant to establish colonies and trading posts throughout the Mediterranean, but then they disappeared from history. We wished to identify their male genetic traces in modern populations. Therefore, we chose Phoenician-influenced sites on the basis of well-documented historical records and collected new Y-chromosomal data from 1330 men from six such sites, as well as comparative data from the literature. We then developed an analytical strategy to distinguish between lineages specifically associated with the Phoenicians and those spread by geographically similar but historically distinct events, such as the Neolithic, Greek, and Jewish expansions. This involved comparing historically documented Phoenician sites with neighboring non-Phoenician sites for the identification of weak but systematic signatures shared by the Phoenician sites that could not readily be explained by chance or by other expansions. From these comparisons, we found that haplogroup J2, in general, and six Y-STR haplotypes, in particular, exhibited a Phoenician signature that contributed > 6% to the modern Phoenician-influenced populations examined. Our methodology can be applied to any historically documented expansion in which contact and noncontact sites can be identified. |
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| spelling | Identifying genetic traces of historical expansionsPhoenician footprints in the MediterraneanZalloua, Pierre A.Platt, Daniel E.El Sibai, MirvatKhalife, JadeMakhoul, NadineHaber, MarcXue, YaliIzaabel, HassanBosch, ElenaAdams, Susan M.Arroyo, EduardoLopez-Parra, Ana MariaAler, MercedesPicornell, AntoniaRamon, MisericordiaJobling, Mark A.Comas, DavidBertranpetit, JaumeTyler-Smith, ChrisThe Phoenicians were the dominant traders in the Mediterranean Sea two thousand to three thousand years ago and expanded from their homeland in the Levant to establish colonies and trading posts throughout the Mediterranean, but then they disappeared from history. We wished to identify their male genetic traces in modern populations. Therefore, we chose Phoenician-influenced sites on the basis of well-documented historical records and collected new Y-chromosomal data from 1330 men from six such sites, as well as comparative data from the literature. We then developed an analytical strategy to distinguish between lineages specifically associated with the Phoenicians and those spread by geographically similar but historically distinct events, such as the Neolithic, Greek, and Jewish expansions. This involved comparing historically documented Phoenician sites with neighboring non-Phoenician sites for the identification of weak but systematic signatures shared by the Phoenician sites that could not readily be explained by chance or by other expansions. From these comparisons, we found that haplogroup J2, in general, and six Y-STR haplotypes, in particular, exhibited a Phoenician signature that contributed > 6% to the modern Phoenician-influenced populations examined. Our methodology can be applied to any historically documented expansion in which contact and noncontact sites can be identified.PublishedN/A2019-07-18T11:09:48Z2019-07-18T11:09:48Z20082019-07-18Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article1537-6605http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11086https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.10.012Zalloua, P. A., Platt, D. E., El Sibai, M., Khalife, J., Makhoul, N., Haber, M., ... & Arroyo, E. (2008). Identifying genetic traces of historical expansions: Phoenician footprints in the Mediterranean. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 83(5), 633-642.http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.phphttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929708005478enAmerican Journal of Human Geneticsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/110862021-03-19T10:47:35Z |
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| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11086 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.10.012 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929708005478 |