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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Parallel evolution of genes and languages in the Caucasus region
Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 28, No. 10, Year 2011
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We analyzed 40 single nucleotide polymorphism and 19 short tandem repeat Y-chromosomal markers in a large sample of 1,525 indigenous individuals from 14 populations in the Caucasus and 254 additional individuals representing potential source populations. We also employed a lexicostatistical approach to reconstruct the history of the languages of the North Caucasian family spoken by the Caucasus populations. We found a different major haplogroup to be prevalent in each of four sets of populations that occupy distinct geographic regions and belong to different linguistic branches. The haplogroup frequencies correlated with geography and, even more strongly, with language. Within haplogroups, a number of haplotype clusters were shown to be specific to individual populations and languages. The data suggested a direct origin of Caucasus male lineages from the Near East, followed by high levels of isolation, differentiation, and genetic drift in situ. Comparison of genetic and linguistic reconstructions covering the last few millennia showed striking correspondences between the topology and dates of the respective gene and language trees and with documented historical events. Overall, in the Caucasus region, unmatched levels of gene-language coevolution occurred within geographically isolated populations, probably due to its mountainous terrain. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. All reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Balanovsky, Oleg P.
Russian Federation, Moscow
Research Centre for Medical Genetics
Russian Federation, Moscow
Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Dibirova, Khadizhat
Russian Federation, Moscow
Research Centre for Medical Genetics
Dybo, Anna V.
Russian Federation, Moscow
Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Mudrak, Oleg
Russian Federation, Moscow
Russian State University for the Humanities
Frolova, Svetlana A.
Russian Federation, Moscow
Research Centre for Medical Genetics
Pocheshkhova, Elvira A.
Russian Federation, Maykop
Adyghe State University
Haber, Marc E.
Lebanon, Beirut
Lebanese American University
Platt, Daniel E.
United States, Yorktown Heights
Ibm Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Schurr, Theodore G.
United States, Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Haak, Wolfgang
Australia, Adelaide
The University of Adelaide
Kuznetsova, Marina A.
Russian Federation, Moscow
Research Centre for Medical Genetics
Radzhabov, Magomed O.
Russian Federation, Moscow
Research Centre for Medical Genetics
Balaganskaya, Olga A.
Russian Federation, Moscow
Research Centre for Medical Genetics
Romanov, Alexey G.
Russian Federation, Moscow
Research Centre for Medical Genetics
Zakharova, Tatiana
Russian Federation, Moscow
Research Centre for Medical Genetics
Soria-Hernanz, David F.
United States, Washington, D.c.
National Geographic Society
Spain, Barcelona
Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Zalloua, Pierre A.
Lebanon, Beirut
Lebanese American University
Koshel’, Sergey M.
Russian Federation, Moscow
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Ruhlen, Merritt
United States, Palo Alto
Stanford University
Renfrew, Colin
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Mcdonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Wells, R. Spencer
United States, Washington, D.c.
National Geographic Society
Tyler-Smith, Chris
United Kingdom, Hinxton
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Balanovska, Elena V.
Russian Federation, Moscow
Research Centre for Medical Genetics
Statistics
Citations: 160
Authors: 23
Affiliations: 15
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/molbev/msr126
ISSN:
07374038
e-ISSN:
15371719
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics
Participants Gender
Male