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论文题目: Genetic evidence of a recent Tibetan ancestry to Sherpas in the Himalayan region
作者: Sushil Bhandari; Xiaoming Zhang; Chaoying Cui; Bianba; Shiyu Liao; Yi Peng; Hui Zhangl Kun Xiang; Hong Shi; Ouzhuluobu; Baimakongzhuo; Gonggalanzi; Shimin Liu; Gengdeng; Tianyi Wu; Xuebin Qi*; Bing Su*
联系作者: qixuebin@mail.kiz.ac.cn; sub@mail.kiz.ac.cn
发表年度: 2015
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摘要: Sherpas living around the Himalayas are renowned as high-altitude mountain climbers but when and where the Sherpa people originated from remains contentious. In this study, we collected DNA samples from 582 Sherpas living in Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region of China to study the genetic diversity of both their maternal (mitochondrial DNA) and paternal (Y chromosome) lineages. Analysis showed that Sherpas share most of their paternal and maternal lineages with indigenous Tibetans, representing a recently derived sub-lineage. The estimated ages of two Sherpa-specific mtDNA sub-haplogroups (C4a3b1 and A15c1) indicate a shallow genetic divergence between Sherpas and Tibetans less than 1,500 years ago. These findings reject the previous theory that Sherpa and Han Chinese served as dual ancestral populations of Tibetans, and conversely suggest that Tibetans are the ancestral populations of the Sherpas, whose adaptive traits for high altitude were recently inherited from their ancestors in Tibet.
刊物名称: Scientific Reports
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影响因子: 5.578 (2014)