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ArticleBiology2020

Global Picture of Genetic Relatedness and the Evolution of Humankind.

Gennady V Khvorykh, Oleh A Mulyar, Larisa Fedorova, Andrey V Khrunin, Svetlana A Limborska, Alexei Fedorov

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Article in Biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gennady V KhvorykhInstitute of Molecular Genetics of National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow 123182, Russia.ORCID 0000-0001-8927-5921
Oleh A MulyarCRI Genetics LLC, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA.
Larisa FedorovaCRI Genetics LLC, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA.
Andrey V KhruninInstitute of Molecular Genetics of National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow 123182, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-7848-4688
Svetlana A LimborskaInstitute of Molecular Genetics of National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow 123182, Russia.
Alexei FedorovCRI Genetics LLC, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA.
Kurchatov Institute · RUUniversity of Toledo · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We performed an exhaustive pairwise comparison of whole-genome sequences of 3120 individuals, representing 232 populations from all continents and seven prehistoric people including archaic and modern humans. In order to reveal an intricate picture of worldwide human genetic relatedness, 65 million very rare single nucleotide polymorphic (SNP) alleles have been bioinformatically processed. The number and size of shared identical-by-descent (IBD) genomic fragments for every pair of 3127 individuals have been revealed. Over 17 million shared IBD fragments have been described. Our approach allowed detection of very short IBD fragments (<20 kb) that trace common ancestors who lived up to 200,000 years ago. We detected nine distinct geographical regions within which individuals had strong genetic relatedness, but with negligible relatedness between the populations of these regions. The regions, comprising nine unique genetic components for mankind, are the following: East and West Africa, Northern Europe, Arctica, East Asia, Oceania, South Asia, Middle East, and South America. The level of admixture in every studied population has been apportioned among these nine genetic components. Genetically, long-term neighboring populations are strikingly similar to each other in spite of any political, religious, and cultural differences. The topmost admixture has been observed at the center of Eurasia. These admixed populations (including Uyghurs, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, and Iranians) have roughly equal genetic contributions from the Middle East, Europe, China, and India, with additional significant traces from Africa and Arctic. The entire picture of relatedness of all the studied populations unfolds and presents itself in the form of shared number/size of IBDs.

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computational biologygenealogygenetic variationgenomicsinheritancepolymorphism

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PMID33182715
PMCPMC7696950
OpenAlexW3101200791

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