A total of 320 subjects from 24 regional groups were analyzed in this study. They include Yoruba (YRI), European (CEU), Japanese (JPT), Chinese (CHB), Amerindians (AI), and several population groups from Southern and Northern Asia comprising Chinese from the Jilin area (JL), Vietnamese (VN), Cambodians (CB), Mongolians (MH), and Koreans from ten cities in South Korea
Table 1 has complete sample codes, including those for different Korean cities.
The MDS plot is shown on the left. Of interest is the Asian-specific one (right), which shows Vietnamese-Cambodians on the bottom, Mongolians on the top-left, Koreans-Japanese on top and Chinese close to them but towards the Vietnamese-Cambodian direction. Not very surprising as Koreans are basically north Mongoloid, Japanese have origins in the Korean peninsula, while Chinese are both north and south in origin.
The STRUCTURE analysis is also quite interesting: see top row which is the Korean-Chinese-Japanese only admixture analysis: clear Chinese- (green), Japanese- (red), and Korean- (yellow) centered clusters emerge, paralleling what our eyes tell us about the distinctiveness of these three ethnic groups. Notice, however, sample JJ (Jeju island) which lacks Korean yellow (K=4).From the paper:
In addition, genetic structure analysis using the STRUCTURE method revealed the existence of five major populations, African, Caucasian, Amerindian, North-East Asian, and Southern Asian. Therefore, in between, there were significant admixtures such as Mongolian with Caucasian, Vietnamese (or Cambodian) with unknown Southern original settlers, and Amerindians with both North-East Asians and Caucasians (Fig. 2).I have commented before on all these admixtures, so let's summarize: Mongolia represents the eastern limit of the Caucasoid expansion, where a small Caucasoid component exists in a predominantly Mongoloid population; Southeast Asians represent a fusion of Mongoloids with "Australoid"-like indigenous populations of the tropical belt from South Asia to Micronesia; Amerindians are partially admixed with Europeans, and partially admixed with NE Asians; the latter component is marked, perhaps, by Y-chromosome haplogroup C3, and may correspondto the second wave of expansion into the Americas.
PLoS ONE 5(7): e11855. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011855
Gene Flow between the Korean Peninsula and Its Neighboring Countries
Jongsun Jung et al.
SNP markers provide the primary data for population structure analysis. In this study, we employed whole-genome autosomal SNPs as a marker set (54,836 SNP markers) and tested their possible effects on genetic ancestry using 320 subjects covering 24 regional groups including Northern ( = 16) and Southern ( = 3) Asians, Amerindians ( = 1), and four HapMap populations (YRI, CEU, JPT, and CHB). Additionally, we evaluated the effectiveness and robustness of 50K autosomal SNPs with various clustering methods, along with their dependencies on recombination hotspots (RH), linkage disequilibrium (LD), missing calls and regional specific markers. The RH- and LD-free multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) method showed a broad picture of human migration from Africa to North-East Asia on our genome map, supporting results from previous haploid DNA studies. Of the Asian groups, the East Asian group showed greater differentiation than the Northern and Southern Asian groups with respect to Fst statistics. By extension, the analysis of monomorphic markers implied that nine out of ten historical regions in South Korea, and Tokyo in Japan, showed signs of genetic drift caused by the later settlement of East Asia (South Korea, Japan and China), while Gyeongju in South East Korea showed signs of the earliest settlement in East Asia. In the genome map, the gene flow to the Korean Peninsula from its neighboring countries indicated that some genetic signals from Northern populations such as the Siberians and Mongolians still remain in the South East and West regions, while few signals remain from the early Southern lineages.
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Gene Flow between the Korean Peninsula and Its Neighboring Countries
Jongsun Jung et al.
SNP markers provide the primary data for population structure analysis. In this study, we employed whole-genome autosomal SNPs as a marker set (54,836 SNP markers) and tested their possible effects on genetic ancestry using 320 subjects covering 24 regional groups including Northern ( = 16) and Southern ( = 3) Asians, Amerindians ( = 1), and four HapMap populations (YRI, CEU, JPT, and CHB). Additionally, we evaluated the effectiveness and robustness of 50K autosomal SNPs with various clustering methods, along with their dependencies on recombination hotspots (RH), linkage disequilibrium (LD), missing calls and regional specific markers. The RH- and LD-free multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) method showed a broad picture of human migration from Africa to North-East Asia on our genome map, supporting results from previous haploid DNA studies. Of the Asian groups, the East Asian group showed greater differentiation than the Northern and Southern Asian groups with respect to Fst statistics. By extension, the analysis of monomorphic markers implied that nine out of ten historical regions in South Korea, and Tokyo in Japan, showed signs of genetic drift caused by the later settlement of East Asia (South Korea, Japan and China), while Gyeongju in South East Korea showed signs of the earliest settlement in East Asia. In the genome map, the gene flow to the Korean Peninsula from its neighboring countries indicated that some genetic signals from Northern populations such as the Siberians and Mongolians still remain in the South East and West regions, while few signals remain from the early Southern lineages.
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"Southeast Asians represent a fusion of Mongoloids with 'Australoid'-like indigenous populations of the tropical belt from South Asia to Micronesia"
ReplyDeleteI agree. But if the Mongoloids are relatively recently derived from northward moving Australoids in the first place how come they are different enough to form noticeably distinct components?
"Amerindians are partially admixed with Europeans, and partially admixed with NE Asians; the latter component is marked, perhaps, by Y-chromosome haplogroup C3, and may correspondto the second wave of expansion into the Americas."
ReplyDeleteDienekes, are you claiming Q and Paleo-Americans are West Eurasian now?
ren, how did you infer that I am "claiming Q and Paleo-Americans are West Eurasian now?" from anything I wrote?
ReplyDelete"Southeast Asians represent a fusion of Mongoloids with 'Australoid'-like indigenous popula Micronesia"
ReplyDeleteThis map, posted earlier: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ish7688voT0/TEdkGu1xYWI/AAAAAAAACgo/w5znxJ23pTo/s1600/admixture-xing.jpg
Shows that there are unique components for Southeast Asia and S. India. Furthermore Indian populations do not contain the Southeast Asian component and most of the Southeast Asia populations do not contain the S. Indian component.
This may call into question a simple southern migration along the Indian Ocean and towards Australia thus resulting in an Australoid Population; whereby both the Southern Indians and Southeast Asians would be partly descended from them (along with some northern populations). Or it could still be the case that the southern migration took place (with both Indians and Southeast Asians partly descended from them) but it happened so long ago that the Southeast Asian component had time to differentiate from the S. Indian one.
If the second scenario is true it is still unusual that the Southeast Asians are so distant from the South Indians.
Also it appears that both the Koreans and Japanese do not have any significant Southeast Asia contributions that the Mongolians wouldn't have (which is basically nothing). So I'm guessing the onset of wet rice farming in Korea and Japan was due solely to cultural diffusion and not demic diffusion.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if anyone has done work on genetic indications of class stratification in Korea or Japan. Both societies have long histories of strongly hierarchical societies, with feudal aristocracies and strong class assortive arranged marriage patterns. In Korea there was a few generation period of forced including of Mongolian princesses into aristocratic bloodlines, and high caste Han Chinese were probably incorporated gradually into local bloodlines over time. Until recent times (e.g. import of brides into rural Korea from SE Asia), the lower classes have had, in contrast, very localized pools from which to seek spouses. The institution of concubinage might also have differentiated high class from low class populations.
ReplyDeleteWhile the differentiation may not have been quite a strong as that of India, the formative period of that differentiation may have been more recent, so the genetic signal might have comparable strength.
The only work along those lines that I am aware of is the differentiation of probable Joman patrilines and matrilines from latter migrating populations.
Japanese and Koreans share the common Yellow cluster when K=4 which is less observed among others on mainland, suggests that the ancestral groups migrated to Japan via Korea, while Jilin(Manchuria) Chinese and part of Koreans share the Blue cluster with Mongolians, suggests that the later North nomads（or Hunters) didn't migrate to Japan.
ReplyDelete"This may call into question a simple southern migration along the Indian Ocean and towards Australia thus resulting in an Australoid Population; whereby both the Southern Indians and Southeast Asians would be partly descended from them (along with some northern populations)".
ReplyDeleteI think it's safe to assume that if migration from India into SE Asia was so easy in the Paleolithic it should have remained so for much of the time since. Therefore the 'simple southern migration' theory has never made sense to me, partly for the differences between SE Asians and S Asians you refer to. Hence my first comment at this post.
Unlike the lack of evidence for an Indian connection it seems extremely likely that over time people from the north have made a substantial contribution to SE Asians genes, without even considering any genetic evidence. For example it looks to me as though several language groups have periodically moved south into SE Asia. I would guess that the oldest surviving language in SE Asia appears to be Mon-Khmer. Its distribution has been splintered by the arrival of several later languages. But it probably replaced a yet earlier language family, perhaps related to some Papuan family or families.
I suspect everyone here would accept the existence of a 'Sino-Tibetan language family'. Speakers of Han Chinese have definitely expanded south over the last several thousand years. Presumably 'Tibeto-Burman' is a sub-branch of Sino-Tibetan. But if Tibeto-Burman is a sub-branch surely that branch must be younger than Sino-Tibetan as a family. Therefore the Burman languages are probably relatively recent into Burma and Northeast India. And it seems obvious that they replaced other languages already established in SE Asia.
Austronesian may or may not be distantly related to Sino-Tibetan (I suspect it is) but its expansion (most likely from Taiwan, or the Philippines, or both) is presumably no older than 5-6,000 years old. It too looks to have replaced earlier languages, mostly coastal.
The other SE Asian language family that may predate both Austronesian and Tibeto-Burman is Thai-Kradai. It is presumed to have entered SE Asia from southern China, again relatively recently.
So, SE Asians seem to be some indigenous population remnant that has been swamped by later arrivals from the north. No evidence of any movement from India to SE Asia until Hindu and Muslim traders entered the region. But plenty of evidence for southward-moving immigrants.
"I would guess that the oldest surviving language in SE Asia appears to be Mon-Khmer. Its distribution has been splintered by the arrival of several later languages. But it probably replaced a yet earlier language family, perhaps related to some Papuan family or families".
ReplyDeleteSorry about that. A mistake. It's the Hmong-Mien languages that I was refering to with that comment. As far as I'm aware the Kmer are also relativley recent into SE Asia.