在中后青铜时代大规模迁移到英国
Nick Patterson1,2, Michael Isakov3, Thomas Booth4
1Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Nature
|December 22, 2021
概括
与早期青铜时代相比,现代英格兰和威尔士人口的欧洲农民 (EEF) 血统增加. 公元前1000年左右的移民对英国的遗传格局产生了重大影响,影响了语言的传播.
科学领域:
- 古代DNA分析
- 种群遗传学
- 欧洲史前史
背景情况:
- 英国和威尔士的当代人口比早期青铜时代的个人拥有更大的早期欧洲农民 (EEF) 血统.
- 为了理解这一转变,需要检查青铜和铁器时代的英国和西欧的遗传变化.
研究的目的:
- 调查英国增加EEF祖先的遗传起源.
- 追踪移民对英国和西欧遗传景观的影响.
- 探索移民模式与凯尔特语传播之间的潜在联系.
主要方法:
- 从793个古老的个体中生成全基因组数据.
- 英国和西欧的中后青铜时代和铁器时代的遗传数据显著增加.
- 分析了遗传祖先的组成部分和等位基因频率.
主要成果:
- 在公元前1000年至公元前875年间,EEF的祖先在英国南部 (英格兰和威尔士) 增加,但由于类似法国的移民而不是苏格兰.
- 这些移民为英格兰和威尔士的铁器时代人口贡献了大约50%的祖先.
- 在英国显而易见的基因轨迹,包括乳酶持久性等位基因的较高频率与中欧相比.
结论:
- 移民的融入大大改变了英国的祖先,可能促进了早期的凯尔特语的传播.
- 在中后青铜时代,西欧和中欧的EEF祖先增加反映了文化交流的加剧.
- 不同的遗传模式,特别是在乳糖持久性方面,表明英国和中欧之间存在不同的乳制品使用习惯.
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