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Cell ; 173(3): 569-580.e15, 2018 04 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29677510

RESUMO

Understanding the physiology and genetics of human hypoxia tolerance has important medical implications, but this phenomenon has thus far only been investigated in high-altitude human populations. Another system, yet to be explored, is humans who engage in breath-hold diving. The indigenous Bajau people ("Sea Nomads") of Southeast Asia live a subsistence lifestyle based on breath-hold diving and are renowned for their extraordinary breath-holding abilities. However, it is unknown whether this has a genetic basis. Using a comparative genomic study, we show that natural selection on genetic variants in the PDE10A gene have increased spleen size in the Bajau, providing them with a larger reservoir of oxygenated red blood cells. We also find evidence of strong selection specific to the Bajau on BDKRB2, a gene affecting the human diving reflex. Thus, the Bajau, and possibly other diving populations, provide a new opportunity to study human adaptation to hypoxia tolerance. VIDEO ABSTRACT.


Assuntos
Adaptação Fisiológica , Suspensão da Respiração , Mergulho , Tamanho do Órgão , Diester Fosfórico Hidrolases/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Alelos , Povo Asiático , Eritrócitos/citologia , Etnicidade , Feminino , Variação Genética , Genômica , Humanos , Hipóxia , Indonésia/etnologia , Pulmão , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Oxigênio/fisiologia , Fenótipo , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Seleção Genética , Baço/fisiologia , População Branca , Adulto Jovem
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Nature ; 633(8028): 147-154, 2024 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39198640

RESUMO

Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from help with writing1,2 to informing hiring decisions3. However, these language models are known to perpetuate systematic racial prejudices, making their judgements biased in problematic ways about groups such as African Americans4-7. Although previous research has focused on overt racism in language models, social scientists have argued that racism with a more subtle character has developed over time, particularly in the United States after the civil rights movement8,9. It is unknown whether this covert racism manifests in language models. Here, we demonstrate that language models embody covert racism in the form of dialect prejudice, exhibiting raciolinguistic stereotypes about speakers of African American English (AAE) that are more negative than any human stereotypes about African Americans ever experimentally recorded. By contrast, the language models' overt stereotypes about African Americans are more positive. Dialect prejudice has the potential for harmful consequences: language models are more likely to suggest that speakers of AAE be assigned less-prestigious jobs, be convicted of crimes and be sentenced to death. Finally, we show that current practices of alleviating racial bias in language models, such as human preference alignment, exacerbate the discrepancy between covert and overt stereotypes, by superficially obscuring the racism that language models maintain on a deeper level. Our findings have far-reaching implications for the fair and safe use of language technology.


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Inteligência Artificial , Negro ou Afro-Americano , Tomada de Decisões , Idioma , Processamento de Linguagem Natural , Racismo , Estereotipagem , Inteligência Artificial/ética , Negro ou Afro-Americano/etnologia , Tomada de Decisões/ética , Racismo/etnologia , Racismo/prevenção & controle
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Nature ; 629(8011): 376-383, 2024 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38658749

RESUMO

From AD 567-568, at the onset of the Avar period, populations from the Eurasian Steppe settled in the Carpathian Basin for approximately 250 years1. Extensive sampling for archaeogenomics (424 individuals) and isotopes, combined with archaeological, anthropological and historical contextualization of four Avar-period cemeteries, allowed for a detailed description of the genomic structure of these communities and their kinship and social practices. We present a set of large pedigrees, reconstructed using ancient DNA, spanning nine generations and comprising around 300 individuals. We uncover a strict patrilineal kinship system, in which patrilocality and female exogamy were the norm and multiple reproductive partnering and levirate unions were common. The absence of consanguinity indicates that this society maintained a detailed memory of ancestry over generations. These kinship practices correspond with previous evidence from historical sources and anthropological research on Eurasian Steppe societies2. Network analyses of identity-by-descent DNA connections suggest that social cohesion between communities was maintained via female exogamy. Finally, despite the absence of major ancestry shifts, the level of resolution of our analyses allowed us to detect genetic discontinuity caused by the replacement of a community at one of the sites. This was paralleled with changes in the archaeological record and was probably a result of local political realignment.


Assuntos
Arqueologia , DNA Antigo , Características da Família , Pradaria , Linhagem , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Arqueologia/métodos , Ásia/etnologia , Cemitérios/história , Consanguinidade , DNA Antigo/análise , Europa (Continente)/etnologia , Características da Família/etnologia , Características da Família/história , Genômica , História Medieval , Política , Adolescente , Adulto Jovem
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Nature ; 625(7994): 321-328, 2024 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38200296

RESUMO

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuro-inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease that is most prevalent in Northern Europe. Although it is known that inherited risk for MS is located within or in close proximity to immune-related genes, it is unknown when, where and how this genetic risk originated1. Here, by using a large ancient genome dataset from the Mesolithic period to the Bronze Age2, along with new Medieval and post-Medieval genomes, we show that the genetic risk for MS rose among pastoralists from the Pontic steppe and was brought into Europe by the Yamnaya-related migration approximately 5,000 years ago. We further show that these MS-associated immunogenetic variants underwent positive selection both within the steppe population and later in Europe, probably driven by pathogenic challenges coinciding with changes in diet, lifestyle and population density. This study highlights the critical importance of the Neolithic period and Bronze Age as determinants of modern immune responses and their subsequent effect on the risk of developing MS in a changing environment.


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Predisposição Genética para Doença , Genoma Humano , Pradaria , Esclerose Múltipla , Humanos , Conjuntos de Dados como Assunto , Dieta/etnologia , Dieta/história , Europa (Continente)/etnologia , Predisposição Genética para Doença/história , Genética Médica , História do Século XV , História Antiga , História Medieval , Migração Humana/história , Estilo de Vida/etnologia , Estilo de Vida/história , Esclerose Múltipla/genética , Esclerose Múltipla/história , Esclerose Múltipla/imunologia , Doenças Neurodegenerativas/genética , Doenças Neurodegenerativas/história , Doenças Neurodegenerativas/imunologia , Densidade Demográfica
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Nature ; 633(8029): 389-397, 2024 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39261618

RESUMO

Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world. It has captured the imagination of many owing to its archaeological record, which includes iconic megalithic statues called moai1. Two prominent contentions have arisen from the extensive study of Rapa Nui. First, the history of the Rapanui has been presented as a warning tale of resource overexploitation that would have culminated in a major population collapse-the 'ecocide' theory2-4. Second, the possibility of trans-Pacific voyages to the Americas pre-dating European contact is still debated5-7. Here, to address these questions, we reconstructed the genomic history of the Rapanui on the basis of 15 ancient Rapanui individuals that we radiocarbon dated (1670-1950 CE) and whole-genome sequenced (0.4-25.6×). We find that these individuals are Polynesian in origin and most closely related to present-day Rapanui, a finding that will contribute to repatriation efforts. Through effective population size reconstructions and extensive population genetics simulations, we reject a scenario involving a severe population bottleneck during the 1600s, as proposed by the ecocide theory. Furthermore, the ancient and present-day Rapanui carry similar proportions of Native American admixture (about 10%). Using a Bayesian approach integrating genetic and radiocarbon dates, we estimate that this admixture event occurred about 1250-1430 CE.


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Indígena Americano ou Nativo do Alasca , DNA Antigo , População Europeia , Genética Populacional , Genoma Humano , Migração Humana , Havaiano Nativo ou Outro Ilhéu do Pacífico , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Indígena Americano ou Nativo do Alasca/genética , Indígena Americano ou Nativo do Alasca/história , América/etnologia , Teorema de Bayes , DNA Antigo/análise , Europa (Continente)/etnologia , População Europeia/genética , População Europeia/história , Genoma Humano/genética , História do Século XVII , História do Século XVIII , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , História Antiga , História Medieval , Migração Humana/história , Havaiano Nativo ou Outro Ilhéu do Pacífico/genética , Havaiano Nativo ou Outro Ilhéu do Pacífico/história , Filogenia , Polinésia/etnologia , Densidade Demográfica , Datação Radiométrica , Sequenciamento Completo do Genoma
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Nature ; 625(7994): 301-311, 2024 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38200295

RESUMO

Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene1-5. Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced 317 genomes-mainly from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods-from across northern and western Eurasia. These were imputed alongside published data to obtain diploid genotypes from more than 1,600 ancient humans. Our analyses revealed a 'great divide' genomic boundary extending from the Black Sea to the Baltic. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers were highly genetically differentiated east and west of this zone, and the effect of the neolithization was equally disparate. Large-scale ancestry shifts occurred in the west as farming was introduced, including near-total replacement of hunter-gatherers in many areas, whereas no substantial ancestry shifts happened east of the zone during the same period. Similarly, relatedness decreased in the west from the Neolithic transition onwards, whereas, east of the Urals, relatedness remained high until around 4,000 BP, consistent with the persistence of localized groups of hunter-gatherers. The boundary dissolved when Yamnaya-related ancestry spread across western Eurasia around 5,000 BP, resulting in a second major turnover that reached most parts of Europe within a 1,000-year span. The genetic origin and fate of the Yamnaya have remained elusive, but we show that hunter-gatherers from the Middle Don region contributed ancestry to them. Yamnaya groups later admixed with individuals associated with the Globular Amphora culture before expanding into Europe. Similar turnovers occurred in western Siberia, where we report new genomic data from a 'Neolithic steppe' cline spanning the Siberian forest steppe to Lake Baikal. These prehistoric migrations had profound and lasting effects on the genetic diversity of Eurasian populations.


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Genética Populacional , Genoma Humano , Migração Humana , Metagenômica , Humanos , Agricultura/história , Ásia Ocidental , Mar Negro , Diploide , Europa (Continente)/etnologia , Genótipo , História Antiga , Migração Humana/história , Caça/história , Camada de Gelo
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Nature ; 625(7994): 312-320, 2024 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38200293

RESUMO

The Holocene (beginning around 12,000 years ago) encompassed some of the most significant changes in human evolution, with far-reaching consequences for the dietary, physical and mental health of present-day populations. Using a dataset of more than 1,600 imputed ancient genomes1, we modelled the selection landscape during the transition from hunting and gathering, to farming and pastoralism across West Eurasia. We identify key selection signals related to metabolism, including that selection at the FADS cluster began earlier than previously reported and that selection near the LCT locus predates the emergence of the lactase persistence allele by thousands of years. We also find strong selection in the HLA region, possibly due to increased exposure to pathogens during the Bronze Age. Using ancient individuals to infer local ancestry tracts in over 400,000 samples from the UK Biobank, we identify widespread differences in the distribution of Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age ancestries across Eurasia. By calculating ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores, we show that height differences between Northern and Southern Europe are associated with differential Steppe ancestry, rather than selection, and that risk alleles for mood-related phenotypes are enriched for Neolithic farmer ancestry, whereas risk alleles for diabetes and Alzheimer's disease are enriched for Western hunter-gatherer ancestry. Our results indicate that ancient selection and migration were large contributors to the distribution of phenotypic diversity in present-day Europeans.


Assuntos
Asiático , População Europeia , Genoma Humano , Seleção Genética , Humanos , Afeto , Agricultura/história , Alelos , Doença de Alzheimer/genética , Ásia/etnologia , Asiático/genética , Diabetes Mellitus/genética , Europa (Continente)/etnologia , População Europeia/genética , Fazendeiros/história , Loci Gênicos/genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Genoma Humano/genética , História Antiga , Migração Humana , Caça/história , Família Multigênica/genética , Fenótipo , Biobanco do Reino Unido , Herança Multifatorial/genética
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Nature ; 626(7999): 565-573, 2024 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38297123

RESUMO

Genomic research that targets large-scale, prospective birth cohorts constitutes an essential strategy for understanding the influence of genetics and environment on human health1. Nonetheless, such studies remain scarce, particularly in Asia. Here we present the phase I genome study of the Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study2 (BIGCS), which encompasses the sequencing and analysis of 4,053 Chinese individuals, primarily composed of trios or mother-infant duos residing in South China. Our analysis reveals novel genetic variants, a high-quality reference panel, and fine-scale local genetic structure within BIGCS. Notably, we identify previously unreported East Asian-specific genetic associations with maternal total bile acid, gestational weight gain and infant cord blood traits. Additionally, we observe prevalent age-specific genetic effects on lipid levels in mothers and infants. In an exploratory intergenerational Mendelian randomization analysis, we estimate the maternal putatively causal and fetal genetic effects of seven adult phenotypes on seven fetal growth-related measurements. These findings illuminate the genetic links between maternal and early-life traits in an East Asian population and lay the groundwork for future research into the intricate interplay of genetics, intrauterine exposures and early-life experiences in shaping long-term health.


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Estudos de Coortes , Interação Gene-Ambiente , Variação Genética , Genoma Humano , Fenótipo , Efeitos Tardios da Exposição Pré-Natal , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Ácidos e Sais Biliares/metabolismo , China/etnologia , Cordocentese , Feto/embriologia , Ganho de Peso na Gestação , Lipídeos/sangue , Exposição Materna , Parto , Estudos Prospectivos , Genoma Humano/genética , Variação Genética/genética
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Nature ; 625(7994): 329-337, 2024 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38200294

RESUMO

Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales1-4. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient genomic data sampled at high spatiotemporal resolution5-7. Here, to address this, we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet (13C and 15N content), mobility (87Sr/86Sr ratio) and vegetation cover (pollen). We observe that Danish Mesolithic individuals of the Maglemose, Kongemose and Ertebølle cultures form a distinct genetic cluster related to other Western European hunter-gatherers. Despite shifts in material culture they displayed genetic homogeneity from around 10,500 to 5,900 calibrated years before present, when Neolithic farmers with Anatolian-derived ancestry arrived. Although the Neolithic transition was delayed by more than a millennium relative to Central Europe, it was very abrupt and resulted in a population turnover with limited genetic contribution from local hunter-gatherers. The succeeding Neolithic population, associated with the Funnel Beaker culture, persisted for only about 1,000 years before immigrants with eastern Steppe-derived ancestry arrived. This second and equally rapid population replacement gave rise to the Single Grave culture with an ancestry profile more similar to present-day Danes. In our multiproxy dataset, these major demographic events are manifested as parallel shifts in genotype, phenotype, diet and land use.


Assuntos
Genoma Humano , Genômica , Migração Humana , Populações Escandinavas e Nórdicas , Humanos , Dinamarca/etnologia , Emigrantes e Imigrantes/história , Genótipo , Populações Escandinavas e Nórdicas/genética , Populações Escandinavas e Nórdicas/história , Migração Humana/história , Genoma Humano/genética , História Antiga , Pólen , Dieta/história , Caça/história , Fazendeiros/história , Cultura , Fenótipo , Conjuntos de Dados como Assunto
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Nature ; 627(8002): 182-188, 2024 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38267579

RESUMO

The origins of treponemal diseases have long remained unknown, especially considering the sudden onset of the first syphilis epidemic in the late 15th century in Europe and its hypothesized arrival from the Americas with Columbus' expeditions1,2. Recently, ancient DNA evidence has revealed various treponemal infections circulating in early modern Europe and colonial-era Mexico3-6. However, there has been to our knowledge no genomic evidence of treponematosis recovered from either the Americas or the Old World that can be reliably dated to the time before the first trans-Atlantic contacts. Here, we present treponemal genomes from nearly 2,000-year-old human remains from Brazil. We reconstruct four ancient genomes of a prehistoric treponemal pathogen, most closely related to the bejel-causing agent Treponema pallidum endemicum. Contradicting the modern day geographical niche of bejel in the arid regions of the world, the results call into question the previous palaeopathological characterization of treponeme subspecies and showcase their adaptive potential. A high-coverage genome is used to improve molecular clock date estimations, placing the divergence of modern T. pallidum subspecies firmly in pre-Columbian times. Overall, our study demonstrates the opportunities within archaeogenetics to uncover key events in pathogen evolution and emergence, paving the way to new hypotheses on the origin and spread of treponematoses.


Assuntos
Evolução Molecular , Genoma Bacteriano , Treponema pallidum , Infecções por Treponema , Humanos , Brasil/epidemiologia , Brasil/etnologia , Europa (Continente)/epidemiologia , Genoma Bacteriano/genética , História do Século XV , História Antiga , Sífilis/epidemiologia , Sífilis/história , Sífilis/microbiologia , Sífilis/transmissão , Treponema pallidum/classificação , Treponema pallidum/genética , Treponema pallidum/isolamento & purificação , Infecções por Treponema/epidemiologia , Infecções por Treponema/história , Infecções por Treponema/microbiologia , Infecções por Treponema/transmissão
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Nature ; 625(7993): 134-147, 2024 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38093007

RESUMO

Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions1, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process2. In April 2020, an influential paper3 proposed 19 policy recommendations ('claims') detailing how evidence from behavioural science could contribute to efforts to reduce impacts and end the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we assess 747 pandemic-related research articles that empirically investigated those claims. We report the scale of evidence and whether evidence supports them to indicate applicability for policymaking. Two independent teams, involving 72 reviewers, found evidence for 18 of 19 claims, with both teams finding evidence supporting 16 (89%) of those 18 claims. The strongest evidence supported claims that anticipated culture, polarization and misinformation would be associated with policy effectiveness. Claims suggesting trusted leaders and positive social norms increased adherence to behavioural interventions also had strong empirical support, as did appealing to social consensus or bipartisan agreement. Targeted language in messaging yielded mixed effects and there were no effects for highlighting individual benefits or protecting others. No available evidence existed to assess any distinct differences in effects between using the terms 'physical distancing' and 'social distancing'. Analysis of 463 papers containing data showed generally large samples; 418 involved human participants with a mean of 16,848 (median of 1,699). That statistical power underscored improved suitability of behavioural science research for informing policy decisions. Furthermore, by implementing a standardized approach to evidence selection and synthesis, we amplify broader implications for advancing scientific evidence in policy formulation and prioritization.


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Ciências do Comportamento , COVID-19 , Prática Clínica Baseada em Evidências , Política de Saúde , Pandemias , Formulação de Políticas , Humanos , Ciências do Comportamento/métodos , Ciências do Comportamento/tendências , Comunicação , COVID-19/epidemiologia , COVID-19/etnologia , COVID-19/prevenção & controle , Cultura , Prática Clínica Baseada em Evidências/métodos , Liderança , Pandemias/prevenção & controle , Saúde Pública/métodos , Saúde Pública/tendências , Normas Sociais
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Nature ; 622(7984): 784-793, 2023 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37821707

RESUMO

The Mexico City Prospective Study is a prospective cohort of more than 150,000 adults recruited two decades ago from the urban districts of Coyoacán and Iztapalapa in Mexico City1. Here we generated genotype and exome-sequencing data for all individuals and whole-genome sequencing data for 9,950 selected individuals. We describe high levels of relatedness and substantial heterogeneity in ancestry composition across individuals. Most sequenced individuals had admixed Indigenous American, European and African ancestry, with extensive admixture from Indigenous populations in central, southern and southeastern Mexico. Indigenous Mexican segments of the genome had lower levels of coding variation but an excess of homozygous loss-of-function variants compared with segments of African and European origin. We estimated ancestry-specific allele frequencies at 142 million genomic variants, with an effective sample size of 91,856 for Indigenous Mexican ancestry at exome variants, all available through a public browser. Using whole-genome sequencing, we developed an imputation reference panel that outperforms existing panels at common variants in individuals with high proportions of central, southern and southeastern Indigenous Mexican ancestry. Our work illustrates the value of genetic studies in diverse populations and provides foundational imputation and allele frequency resources for future genetic studies in Mexico and in the United States, where the Hispanic/Latino population is predominantly of Mexican descent.


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Sequenciamento do Exoma , Genoma Humano , Genótipo , Hispânico ou Latino , Adulto , Humanos , África/etnologia , América/etnologia , Europa (Continente)/etnologia , Frequência do Gene/genética , Genética Populacional , Genoma Humano/genética , Técnicas de Genotipagem , Hispânico ou Latino/genética , Homozigoto , Mutação com Perda de Função/genética , México , Estudos Prospectivos
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Nature ; 615(7954): 866-873, 2023 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36991187

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The urban peoples of the Swahili coast traded across eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean and were among the first practitioners of Islam among sub-Saharan people1,2. The extent to which these early interactions between Africans and non-Africans were accompanied by genetic exchange remains unknown. Here we report ancient DNA data for 80 individuals from 6 medieval and early modern (AD 1250-1800) coastal towns and an inland town after AD 1650. More than half of the DNA of many of the individuals from coastal towns originates from primarily female ancestors from Africa, with a large proportion-and occasionally more than half-of the DNA coming from Asian ancestors. The Asian ancestry includes components associated with Persia and India, with 80-90% of the Asian DNA originating from Persian men. Peoples of African and Asian origins began to mix by about AD 1000, coinciding with the large-scale adoption of Islam. Before about AD 1500, the Southwest Asian ancestry was mainly Persian-related, consistent with the narrative of the Kilwa Chronicle, the oldest history told by people of the Swahili coast3. After this time, the sources of DNA became increasingly Arabian, consistent with evidence of growing interactions with southern Arabia4. Subsequent interactions with Asian and African people further changed the ancestry of present-day people of the Swahili coast in relation to the medieval individuals whose DNA we sequenced.


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População Africana , Asiático , Genética Populacional , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , População Africana/genética , Asiático/genética , História Medieval , Oceano Índico , Tanzânia , Quênia , Moçambique , Comores , História do Século XV , História do Século XVI , História do Século XVII , Índia/etnologia , Pérsia/etnologia , Arábia/etnologia , DNA Antigo/análise
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Nature ; 622(7982): 348-358, 2023 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37794188

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High-throughput proteomics platforms measuring thousands of proteins in plasma combined with genomic and phenotypic information have the power to bridge the gap between the genome and diseases. Here we performed association studies of Olink Explore 3072 data generated by the UK Biobank Pharma Proteomics Project1 on plasma samples from more than 50,000 UK Biobank participants with phenotypic and genotypic data, stratifying on British or Irish, African and South Asian ancestries. We compared the results with those of a SomaScan v4 study on plasma from 36,000 Icelandic people2, for 1,514 of whom Olink data were also available. We found modest correlation between the two platforms. Although cis protein quantitative trait loci were detected for a similar absolute number of assays on the two platforms (2,101 on Olink versus 2,120 on SomaScan), the proportion of assays with such supporting evidence for assay performance was higher on the Olink platform (72% versus 43%). A considerable number of proteins had genomic associations that differed between the platforms. We provide examples where differences between platforms may influence conclusions drawn from the integration of protein levels with the study of diseases. We demonstrate how leveraging the diverse ancestries of participants in the UK Biobank helps to detect novel associations and refine genomic location. Our results show the value of the information provided by the two most commonly used high-throughput proteomics platforms and demonstrate the differences between them that at times provides useful complementarity.


Assuntos
Proteínas Sanguíneas , Suscetibilidade a Doenças , Genômica , Genótipo , Fenótipo , Proteômica , Humanos , África/etnologia , Ásia Meridional/etnologia , Bancos de Espécimes Biológicos , Proteínas Sanguíneas/análise , Proteínas Sanguíneas/genética , Conjuntos de Dados como Assunto , Genoma Humano/genética , Islândia/etnologia , Irlanda/etnologia , Plasma/química , Proteoma/análise , Proteoma/genética , Proteômica/métodos , Locos de Características Quantitativas , Reino Unido
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Nature ; 615(7950): 117-126, 2023 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36859578

RESUMO

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to the scarceness and poor molecular preservation of human remains from that period3. Here we analyse 356 ancient hunter-gatherer genomes, including new genomic data for 116 individuals from 14 countries in western and central Eurasia, spanning between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago. We identify a genetic ancestry profile in individuals associated with Upper Palaeolithic Gravettian assemblages from western Europe that is distinct from contemporaneous groups related to this archaeological culture in central and southern Europe4, but resembles that of preceding individuals associated with the Aurignacian culture. This ancestry profile survived during the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000 to 19,000 years ago) in human populations from southwestern Europe associated with the Solutrean culture, and with the following Magdalenian culture that re-expanded northeastward after the Last Glacial Maximum. Conversely, we reveal a genetic turnover in southern Europe suggesting a local replacement of human groups around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, accompanied by a north-to-south dispersal of populations associated with the Epigravettian culture. From at least 14,000 years ago, an ancestry related to this culture spread from the south across the rest of Europe, largely replacing the Magdalenian-associated gene pool. After a period of limited admixture that spanned the beginning of the Mesolithic, we find genetic interactions between western and eastern European hunter-gatherers, who were also characterized by marked differences in phenotypically relevant variants.


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Arqueologia , Genoma Humano , Genômica , Genética Humana , Caça , Paleontologia , Humanos , Europa (Continente)/etnologia , Pool Gênico , História Antiga , Genoma Humano/genética
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Nature ; 624(7990): 122-129, 2023 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37993721

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Before the colonial period, California harboured more language variation than all of Europe, and linguistic and archaeological analyses have led to many hypotheses to explain this diversity1. We report genome-wide data from 79 ancient individuals from California and 40 ancient individuals from Northern Mexico dating to 7,400-200 years before present (BP). Our analyses document long-term genetic continuity between people living on the Northern Channel Islands of California and the adjacent Santa Barbara mainland coast from 7,400 years BP to modern Chumash groups represented by individuals who lived around 200 years BP. The distinctive genetic lineages that characterize present-day and ancient people from Northwest Mexico increased in frequency in Southern and Central California by 5,200 years BP, providing evidence for northward migrations that are candidates for spreading Uto-Aztecan languages before the dispersal of maize agriculture from Mexico2-4. Individuals from Baja California share more alleles with the earliest individual from Central California in the dataset than with later individuals from Central California, potentially reflecting an earlier linguistic substrate, whose impact on local ancestry was diluted by later migrations from inland regions1,5. After 1,600 years BP, ancient individuals from the Channel Islands lived in communities with effective sizes similar to those in pre-agricultural Caribbean and Patagonia, and smaller than those on the California mainland and in sampled regions of Mexico.


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Variação Genética , Povos Indígenas , Humanos , Agricultura/história , California/etnologia , Região do Caribe/etnologia , Etnicidade/genética , Etnicidade/história , Europa (Continente)/etnologia , Variação Genética/genética , História do Século XV , História do Século XVI , História do Século XVII , História do Século XVIII , História do Século XIX , História Antiga , História Medieval , Migração Humana/história , Povos Indígenas/genética , Povos Indígenas/história , Ilhas , Idioma/história , México/etnologia , Zea mays , Genoma Humano/genética , Genômica , Alelos
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Nature ; 617(7962): 755-763, 2023 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37198480

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Despite broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, considerable uncertainty surrounds specific models of divergence and migration across the continent1. Progress is hampered by a shortage of fossil and genomic data, as well as variability in previous estimates of divergence times1. Here we seek to discriminate among such models by considering linkage disequilibrium and diversity-based statistics, optimized for rapid, complex demographic inference2. We infer detailed demographic models for populations across Africa, including eastern and western representatives, and newly sequenced whole genomes from 44 Nama (Khoe-San) individuals from southern Africa. We infer a reticulated African population history in which present-day population structure dates back to Marine Isotope Stage 5. The earliest population divergence among contemporary populations occurred 120,000 to 135,000 years ago and was preceded by links between two or more weakly differentiated ancestral Homo populations connected by gene flow over hundreds of thousands of years. Such weakly structured stem models explain patterns of polymorphism that had previously been attributed to contributions from archaic hominins in Africa2-7. In contrast to models with archaic introgression, we predict that fossil remains from coexisting ancestral populations should be genetically and morphologically similar, and that only an inferred 1-4% of genetic differentiation among contemporary human populations can be attributed to genetic drift between stem populations. We show that model misspecification explains the variation in previous estimates of divergence times, and argue that studying a range of models is key to making robust inferences about deep history.


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Genética Populacional , Migração Humana , Filogenia , Humanos , África/etnologia , Fósseis , Fluxo Gênico , Deriva Genética , Introgressão Genética , Genoma Humano , História Antiga , Migração Humana/história , Desequilíbrio de Ligação/genética , Polimorfismo Genético , Fatores de Tempo
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Nature ; 620(7975): 849-854, 2023 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37558879

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Protracted global conflicts during the past decade have led to repeated major humanitarian protection crises in Europe. During the height of the Syrian refugee crisis at the end of 2015, Europe hosted around 2.3 million people requesting asylum1. Today, the ongoing war in Ukraine has resulted in one of the largest humanitarian emergencies in Europe since World War II, with more than eight million Ukrainians seeking refuge across Europe2. Here we explore whether repeated humanitarian crises threaten to exhaust solidarity and whether Europeans welcome Ukrainian asylum seekers over other asylum seekers3,4. We conducted repeat conjoint experiments during the 2015-2016 and 2022 refugee crises, asking 33,000 citizens in 15 European countries to evaluate randomly varied profiles of asylum seekers. We find that public preferences for asylum seekers with specific attributes have remained remarkably stable and general support has, if anything, increased slightly over time. Ukrainian asylum seekers were welcomed in 2022, with their demographic, religious and displacement profile having a larger role than their nationality. Yet, this welcome did not come at the expense of support for other marginalized refugee groups, such as Muslim refugees. These findings have implications for our theoretical understanding of the drivers and resilience of public attitudes towards refugees and for policymakers tasked to find effective responses to the enduring stress on the asylum system5-8.


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Demografia , Opinião Pública , Refugiados , Atitude , Europa (Continente) , Refugiados/legislação & jurisprudência , Refugiados/estatística & dados numéricos , Religião , Síria/etnologia , Fatores de Tempo , Ucrânia/etnologia
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Nature ; 624(7992): 593-601, 2023 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38093005

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The Indigenous peoples of Australia have a rich linguistic and cultural history. How this relates to genetic diversity remains largely unknown because of their limited engagement with genomic studies. Here we analyse the genomes of 159 individuals from four remote Indigenous communities, including people who speak a language (Tiwi) not from the most widespread family (Pama-Nyungan). This large collection of Indigenous Australian genomes was made possible by careful community engagement and consultation. We observe exceptionally strong population structure across Australia, driven by divergence times between communities of 26,000-35,000 years ago and long-term low but stable effective population sizes. This demographic history, including early divergence from Papua New Guinean (47,000 years ago) and Eurasian groups1, has generated the highest proportion of previously undescribed genetic variation seen outside Africa and the most extended homozygosity compared with global samples. A substantial proportion of this variation is not observed in global reference panels or clinical datasets, and variation with predicted functional consequence is more likely to be homozygous than in other populations, with consequent implications for medical genomics2. Our results show that Indigenous Australians are not a single homogeneous genetic group and their genetic relationship with the peoples of New Guinea is not uniform. These patterns imply that the full breadth of Indigenous Australian genetic diversity remains uncharacterized, potentially limiting genomic medicine and equitable healthcare for Indigenous Australians.


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Povos Aborígenes Australianos e Ilhéus do Estreito de Torres , Genoma Humano , Variação Estrutural do Genoma , Humanos , Austrália/etnologia , Povos Aborígenes Australianos e Ilhéus do Estreito de Torres/genética , Povos Aborígenes Australianos e Ilhéus do Estreito de Torres/história , Conjuntos de Dados como Assunto , Genética Médica , Genoma Humano/genética , Variação Estrutural do Genoma/genética , Genômica , História Antiga , Homozigoto , Idioma , Nova Guiné/etnologia , Densidade Demográfica , Dinâmica Populacional
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Nature ; 618(7966): 774-781, 2023 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37198491

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Polygenic scores (PGSs) have limited portability across different groupings of individuals (for example, by genetic ancestries and/or social determinants of health), preventing their equitable use1-3. PGS portability has typically been assessed using a single aggregate population-level statistic (for example, R2)4, ignoring inter-individual variation within the population. Here, using a large and diverse Los Angeles biobank5 (ATLAS, n = 36,778) along with the UK Biobank6 (UKBB, n = 487,409), we show that PGS accuracy decreases individual-to-individual along the continuum of genetic ancestries7 in all considered populations, even within traditionally labelled 'homogeneous' genetic ancestries. The decreasing trend is well captured by a continuous measure of genetic distance (GD) from the PGS training data: Pearson correlation of -0.95 between GD and PGS accuracy averaged across 84 traits. When applying PGS models trained on individuals labelled as white British in the UKBB to individuals with European ancestries in ATLAS, individuals in the furthest GD decile have 14% lower accuracy relative to the closest decile; notably, the closest GD decile of individuals with Hispanic Latino American ancestries show similar PGS performance to the furthest GD decile of individuals with European ancestries. GD is significantly correlated with PGS estimates themselves for 82 of 84 traits, further emphasizing the importance of incorporating the continuum of genetic ancestries in PGS interpretation. Our results highlight the need to move away from discrete genetic ancestry clusters towards the continuum of genetic ancestries when considering PGSs.


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Herança Multifatorial , Grupos Raciais , Humanos , Europa (Continente)/etnologia , Hispânico ou Latino/genética , Herança Multifatorial/genética , Grupos Raciais/genética , Reino Unido , População Branca/genética , População Europeia/genética , Los Angeles , Bases de Dados Genéticas
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