The emergence of Y-chromosome haplogroup J1e among Arabic-speaking populations

dc.FacultyEndemic Diseasesen_US
dc.contributor.authorChiaroni, Jacques
dc.contributor.authorIbrahim, Muntaser E.
dc.contributor.authorMyres, Natalie M.
dc.date2010
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-26T06:17:38Z
dc.date.available2015-11-26T06:17:38Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-26
dc.date.submitted2015
dc.description.abstractHaplogroup J1 is a prevalent Y-chromosome lineage within the Near East. We report the frequency and YSTR diversity data for its major sub-clade (J1e). The overall expansion time estimated from 453 chromosomes is 10 000 years. Moreover, the previously described J1 (DYS388¼13) chromosomes, frequently found in the Caucasus and eastern Anatolian populations, were ancestral to J1e and displayed an expansion time of 9000 years. For J1e, the Zagros/Taurus mountain region displays the highest haplotype diversity, although the J1e frequency increases toward the peripheral Arabian Peninsula. The southerly pattern of decreasing expansion time estimates is consistent with the serial drift and founder effect processes. The first such migration is predicted to have occurred at the onset of the Neolithic, and accordingly J1e parallels the establishment of rain-fed agriculture and semi-nomadic herders throughout the Fertile Crescent. Subsequently, J1e lineages might have been involved in episodes of the expansion of pastoralists into arid habitats coinciding with the spread of Arabic and other Semitic-speaking populationsen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://khartoumspace.uofk.edu/123456789/17300
dc.publisheruniversity of khartoumen_US
dc.subjectY-chromosome haplogroup J1e; Neolithic; Arabic languages; pastoralismen_US
dc.titleThe emergence of Y-chromosome haplogroup J1e among Arabic-speaking populationsen_US
dc.typePublicationen_US

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