Multiple-Wave Admixture and Adaptive Evolution of the Pamirian Wakhi People
Wanxing Xu, Jiaojiao Liu, Xiaoxi Zhang, Jia Wen, Qidi Feng, Yang Gao, Yuwen Pan, Yan Lu, Asifullah Khan, Shuhua Xu, Evelyne Heyer · 2024
Read Multiple-Wave Admixture and Adaptive Evolution of the Pamirian Wakhi People by Wanxing Xu, Jiaojiao Liu, Xiaoxi Zhang, Jia Wen, Qidi Feng, Yang Gao, Yuwen Pan, Yan Lu, Asifullah Khan, Shuhua Xu, Evelyne Heyer (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11631187.txt.
Description
Wanxing Xu and co-authors read the genomes of the Wakhi people of the Pamir highlands in a 2024 study. Small groups in Pakistan are thin in world gene banks, and the Wakhi's roots and highland fit were little known. Old Chinese records hint at a link to a kin group in Xinjiang.
The team read full genomes for eight Wakhi and 25 Xinjiang Tajik people at deep cover. The Wakhi draw more than 85 percent of their roots from west Eurasian groups, and a tenth from east ones. Two waves of mixing show, one long past and one a few hundred years back. A gene tied to thin-air fit stands out, with a picked form far more common in the Wakhi.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wanxing Xu, Jiaojiao Liu, Xiaoxi Zhang, Jia Wen, Qidi Feng, Yang Gao, Yuwen Pan, Yan Lu, Asifullah Khan, Shuhua Xu, Evelyne Heyer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |