East Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years
Abstract Coastal areas of northern East Asia in the ShanDong region, which show complex cultural transitions in the last 10,000 years, have helped to facilitate population interactions between more inland regions of mainland East Asia and islands such as those in the Japanese archipelago. To examine...
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| author | Juncen Liu Yichen Liu Yongsheng Zhao Chao Zhu Tianyi Wang Wen Zeng Bo Sun Fen Wang Hui Han Zhenguang Li Xiaotian Feng Peng Cao Fengshi Luan Feng Liu Qingyan Dai Junfeng Guo Zimeng Wang Chengmin Wei Qiaowei Wei Ruowei Yang Weihong Hou Wanjing Ping Fan Bai Bo Miao Wenjun Wang Melinda A. Yang Qiaomei Fu |
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| description | Abstract Coastal areas of northern East Asia in the ShanDong region, which show complex cultural transitions in the last 10,000 years, have helped to facilitate population interactions between more inland regions of mainland East Asia and islands such as those in the Japanese archipelago. To examine how ShanDong populations changed over time and interacted with island and inland East Asian populations, we sequenced 85 individuals from 11 ancient sites in the ShanDong region dating to ~6000-1500 BP. We found that ancestry related to ShanDong populations likely explains the mainland East Asian ancestry observed in post-Yayoi populations from the Japanese archipelago, particularly recent populations who lived in the Ryukyu Islands after ~2800 BP. In the ShanDong region, we observed gene flow from populations to the north and south of this region by at least ~7700 BP, and two waves of gene flow associated with the inland Yellow River populations into the ShanDong region during the DaWenKou cultural period (6000-4600 BP) and in the early dynastic period (3500-1500 BP). Reconstructing the genetic history of the Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Age populations of coastal northern East Asia shows gene flow on both a north-south and an east-west (inland-coastal-island) scale. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8f97ccd64b424751921239e28a546ae82025-02-09T12:45:55ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232025-02-0116111210.1038/s41467-025-56555-wEast Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 yearsJuncen Liu0Yichen Liu1Yongsheng Zhao2Chao Zhu3Tianyi Wang4Wen Zeng5Bo Sun6Fen Wang7Hui Han8Zhenguang Li9Xiaotian Feng10Peng Cao11Fengshi Luan12Feng Liu13Qingyan Dai14Junfeng Guo15Zimeng Wang16Chengmin Wei17Qiaowei Wei18Ruowei Yang19Weihong Hou20Wanjing Ping21Fan Bai22Bo Miao23Wenjun Wang24Melinda A. Yang25Qiaomei Fu26Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesInstitute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong UniversityShandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and ArchaeologyKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesInstitute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong UniversityShandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and ArchaeologySchool of Archaeology, Shandong UniversityShandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and ArchaeologyShandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and ArchaeologyKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesSchool of Archaeology, Shandong UniversityKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesJinan Municipal Institute of ArchaeologyShandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and ArchaeologyShandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and ArchaeologyDepartment of History, Shanghai UniversityKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesDepartment of Biology, University of RichmondKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of SciencesAbstract Coastal areas of northern East Asia in the ShanDong region, which show complex cultural transitions in the last 10,000 years, have helped to facilitate population interactions between more inland regions of mainland East Asia and islands such as those in the Japanese archipelago. To examine how ShanDong populations changed over time and interacted with island and inland East Asian populations, we sequenced 85 individuals from 11 ancient sites in the ShanDong region dating to ~6000-1500 BP. We found that ancestry related to ShanDong populations likely explains the mainland East Asian ancestry observed in post-Yayoi populations from the Japanese archipelago, particularly recent populations who lived in the Ryukyu Islands after ~2800 BP. In the ShanDong region, we observed gene flow from populations to the north and south of this region by at least ~7700 BP, and two waves of gene flow associated with the inland Yellow River populations into the ShanDong region during the DaWenKou cultural period (6000-4600 BP) and in the early dynastic period (3500-1500 BP). Reconstructing the genetic history of the Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Age populations of coastal northern East Asia shows gene flow on both a north-south and an east-west (inland-coastal-island) scale.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56555-w |
| spellingShingle | Juncen Liu Yichen Liu Yongsheng Zhao Chao Zhu Tianyi Wang Wen Zeng Bo Sun Fen Wang Hui Han Zhenguang Li Xiaotian Feng Peng Cao Fengshi Luan Feng Liu Qingyan Dai Junfeng Guo Zimeng Wang Chengmin Wei Qiaowei Wei Ruowei Yang Weihong Hou Wanjing Ping Fan Bai Bo Miao Wenjun Wang Melinda A. Yang Qiaomei Fu East Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years Nature Communications |
| title | East Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years |
| title_full | East Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years |
| title_fullStr | East Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years |
| title_full_unstemmed | East Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years |
| title_short | East Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years |
| title_sort | east asian gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56555-w |
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