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Inferring the Population Expansions in Peopling of Japan
BACKGROUND: Extensive studies in different fields have been performed to reconstruct the prehistory of populations in the Japanese archipelago. Estimates the ancestral population dynamics based on Japanese molecular sequences can extend our understanding about the colonization of Japan and the ethno...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021509 |
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author | Peng, Min-Sheng Zhang, Ya-Ping |
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description | BACKGROUND: Extensive studies in different fields have been performed to reconstruct the prehistory of populations in the Japanese archipelago. Estimates the ancestral population dynamics based on Japanese molecular sequences can extend our understanding about the colonization of Japan and the ethnogenesis of modern Japanese. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We applied Bayesian skyline plot (BSP) with a dataset based on 952 Japanese mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genomes to depict the female effective population size (N(ef)) through time for the total Japanese and each of the major mtDNA haplogroups in Japanese. Our results revealed a rapid N(ef) growth since ∼5 thousand years ago had left ∼72% Japanese mtDNA lineages with a salient signature. The BSP for the major mtDNA haplogroups indicated some different demographic history. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: The results suggested that the rapid population expansion acted as a major force in shaping current maternal pool of Japanese. It supported a model for population dynamics in Japan in which the prehistoric population growth initiated in the Middle Jomon Period experienced a smooth and swift transition from Jomon to Yayoi, and then continued through the Yayoi Period. The confounding demographic backgrounds of different mtDNA haplogroups could also have some implications for some related studies in future. |
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spelling | pubmed-31268352011-07-11 Inferring the Population Expansions in Peopling of Japan Peng, Min-Sheng Zhang, Ya-Ping PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Extensive studies in different fields have been performed to reconstruct the prehistory of populations in the Japanese archipelago. Estimates the ancestral population dynamics based on Japanese molecular sequences can extend our understanding about the colonization of Japan and the ethnogenesis of modern Japanese. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We applied Bayesian skyline plot (BSP) with a dataset based on 952 Japanese mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genomes to depict the female effective population size (N(ef)) through time for the total Japanese and each of the major mtDNA haplogroups in Japanese. Our results revealed a rapid N(ef) growth since ∼5 thousand years ago had left ∼72% Japanese mtDNA lineages with a salient signature. The BSP for the major mtDNA haplogroups indicated some different demographic history. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: The results suggested that the rapid population expansion acted as a major force in shaping current maternal pool of Japanese. It supported a model for population dynamics in Japan in which the prehistoric population growth initiated in the Middle Jomon Period experienced a smooth and swift transition from Jomon to Yayoi, and then continued through the Yayoi Period. The confounding demographic backgrounds of different mtDNA haplogroups could also have some implications for some related studies in future. Public Library of Science 2011-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3126835/ /pubmed/21747908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021509 Text en Peng, Zhang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Peng, Min-Sheng Zhang, Ya-Ping Inferring the Population Expansions in Peopling of Japan |
title | Inferring the Population Expansions in Peopling of Japan |
title_full | Inferring the Population Expansions in Peopling of Japan |
title_fullStr | Inferring the Population Expansions in Peopling of Japan |
title_full_unstemmed | Inferring the Population Expansions in Peopling of Japan |
title_short | Inferring the Population Expansions in Peopling of Japan |
title_sort | inferring the population expansions in peopling of japan |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021509 |
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