Mapping Post-Glacial Expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia

Mapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia

Archaeological, palaeontological and geological evidence shows that post-glacial warming released human populations from their various climate-bound refugia. Yet specific connections between these refugia and the timing and routes of post-glacial migrations that ultimately established modern patterns of genetic variation remain elusive. Here, we use Y-chromosome markers combined with autosomal data to reconstruct population expansions from regio…

Sri Lanka: Sinhalese migrated from South India, mixed heavily with Adivasi post-migration, genome study finds

Sinhalese chronicles and previous genetic studies had proposed that Sinhalese had migrated from northern or northwest India to Sri Lanka. But a recent whole genome study has found that genetic ancestries and their proportions in Adivasi and Sinhalese are most similar to Dravidian speaking populations who live in Southern India