Jaume Bertranpetit
Biographic Data
| ID | 188909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaume Bertranpetit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaume |
| FAMILY NAME | Bertranpetit |
| SIGNATURE | BERTRANPETIT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0100-0590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Alcohol consumption, life history and extinction risk among Raute hunter–gatherers from Nepal
Hunter–gatherer populations underwent a mass extinction in the Neolithic, and in present times face challenges such as explicit sedentarisation policies. An exception is in Nepal, where the nomadic Raute people receive monthly governmental individual payments. One consequence of the money transfers has been a significant increase in alcohol consumption, with nearly all individuals drinking industrially produced alcohol. Here we investigate the Ra…
Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure
Here we investigate the effects of extensive sociality and mobility on the oral microbiome of 138 Agta hunter–gatherers from the Philippines. Our comparisons of microbiome composition showed that the Agta are more similar to Central African BaYaka hunter–gatherers than to neighbouring farmers. We also defined the Agta social microbiome as a set of 137 oral bacteria (only 7% of 1980 amplicon sequence variants) significantly influenced by social co…
The making of the oral microbiome in Agta hunter–gatherers
Ecological and genetic factors have influenced the composition of the human microbiome during our evolutionary history. We analysed the oral microbiota of the Agta, a hunter–gatherer population where some members have adopted an agricultural diet. We show that age is the strongest factor modulating the microbiome, probably through immunosenescence since we identified an increase in the number of species classified as pathogens with age. We also c…
Great ape genetic diversity and population history
High-coverage sequencing of 79 (wild and captive) individuals representing all six non-human great ape species has identified over 88 million single nucleotide polymorphisms providing insight into ape genetic variation and evolutionary history and enabling comparison with human genetic diversity. In an effort to provide insights into great ape genetic variation, the authors sequence 79 wild- and captive-born individuals from across all six great …
Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals and 24,000-year-old anatomically modern Europeans
During the late Pleistocene, early anatomically modern humans coexisted in Europe with the anatomically archaic Neandertals for some thousand years. Under the recent variants of the multiregional model of human evolution, modern and archaic forms were different but related populations within a single evolving species, and both have contributed to the gene pool of current humans. Conversely, the Out-of-Africa model considers the transition between…
Mitochondrial DNA from pre‐Columbian Ciboneys from Cuba and the prehistoric colonization of the Caribbean
To assess the genetic affinities of extinct Ciboneys (also called Guanajuatabeys) from Cuba, 47 pre‐Columbian skeletal samples belonging to this group were analyzed using ancient DNA techniques. At the time of European contact, the center and east of Cuba were occupied by agriculturalist Taino groups, while the west was mainly inhabited by Ciboneys, hunter‐gatherers who have traditionally been considered a relic population descending from the ini…
Human mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in the Moroccan population of the Souss area
Detailed knowledge of the possible geographic origin of each sequence facilitated an interpretation of both internal diversity parameters and between-population relationships. The sub-Saharan admixture in the Souss Valley matched the south-north cline of sub-Saharan influence in North Africa, also evident in the genetic distances of North African populations to Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans
Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations
Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Europe Is Clinal and Influenced Primarily by Geography, Rather than by Language
Genes as causes: Scientific fact or simplistic thinking
Editor,—The editors of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health should be congratulated on their far reaching audience. The comment entitled “Genes as causes: scientific fact or simplistic thinking?” is a good excuse for transdisciplinary discussion.1 The response to such comment could indeed be entitled “Genes as causes: simplistic thinking? No, scientific facts”. The “genes as causes” tenet is more than an opinion and there is ample evi…
Georgian and Kurd mtDNA sequence analysis shows a lack of correlation between languages and female genetic lineages
Mitochondrial DNA sequences from Georgians and Kurds were analyzed in order to test the possible correlation between female lineages and languages in these two neighboring West Eurasian groups. Mitochondrial sequence pools in both populations are very similar despite their different linguistic and prehistoric backgrounds. Both populations present mtDNA lineages that clearly belong to the European gene pool, as shown by 1) similar nucleotide and s…
Seasonality of Marriages in Spanish and French Parishes in the Cerdanya Valley, Eastern Pyrenees
The Cerdanya valley in the eastern Pyrenees has a physical unity into which a political frontier has been imposed to divide it. The social and cultural repercussions of this Franco-Spanish border have created obstacles to marriage which are not due to topography. Choice of month of marriage is under cultural control and the study of seasonality in marriages recorded in the registers of all the Cerdan parishes on both sides of the border demonstra…
Cerdanya: Mountain valley, genetic highway
In this paper the records of 7844 marriages in the parishes of French and Spanish sectors of the Cerdanya Valley have been analysed. The Cerdanya is an eastern Pyrenean valley, today divided by the Franco-Spanish border, but once united within Catalonia. The results have been reported on the one hand on a small scale using local place names, and on the other hand on a wider scale across France and Spain, because interest lies both in the geograph…
Population history of Corsica: A linguistic and genetic analysis
Genetic and linguistic differentiations within Corsica were analysed and compared; the genetic relationships of Corsica to other Mediterranean populations were also studied. Lexical distances between 49 Corsican localities were computed from a standard word list; trees built from these distances were compared with average linkage and neighbour-joining trees of genetic distances. Our lexical distance results confirmed the north/south dialectal sub…
Sequence diversity of the control region of mitochondrial DNA in Tuscany and its implications for the peopling of Europe
The control region of mitochondrial DNA has been widely studied in various human populations. This paper reports sequence data for hypervariable segments 1 and 2 of the control region from a population from southern Tuscany (Italy). The results confirm the high variability of the control region, with 43 different haplotypes in 49 individuals sampled. The comparison of this set of data with other European populations allows the reconstruction of t…
Birth, Marriage and Death in Illegitimacy: A Study in Northern Portugal
Birth, marriage and death in illegitimacy: A study in northern Portugal
In populations in which the frequency of illegitimacy is high, illegitimates and legitimates may be subjected to different demographic and social pressures, with social and genetic consequences. A rural population from north-east Portugal is studied and variables from birth, marriage and death records are compared according to the legitimacy of the individuals. The analysis shows important differential demographic patterns in infant and child mor…
Biology, boundaries and borders
Towards Justice and Peace is a splendid title for a symposium and book to honour Professor Sunderland. It is also a very difficult title for a biological anthropologist. I make the distinction from social anthropology with some apology. There are of course many subdisciplines and traditions within Anthropology and I most associate Professor Sunderland's support of my university and myself with our attempts to foster cross-disciplinary discussion,…
Human Mitochondrial DNA Variation and the Origin of Basques
Principal component analysis of gene frequencies and the origin of Basques
The genetic peculiarity of the Basque population has long been noted. We aim to describe Basque distinctiveness in space and assess the internal Basque heterogeneity. All these aspects are relevant to the question of the origin of Basques. After a thorough literature search, a data base was created containing all the available data on gene frequencies in the Iberian Peninsula and France. Twenty‐nine systems, comprising 71 alleles, were used to ca…
The Genetic History of the Iberian Peninsula: A Simulation
Palmar flexion creases in schizophrenia
Palmar flexion creases have been studied in schizophrenics with a family history of schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders and without such a background, and compared to a control population. Palmar flexion creases have been analyzed according to the method suggested byBali & Chaube (1971). When compared to controls, differences in the DRBC and TRBC frequencies are significant in the subgroup with no family history, supporting the existence…
Report of «IV Congreso Espanõl de Antropología Biológica»
Les traits non métriques et descriptifs du crâne déformé
Vives E., Bertranpetit J. Les traits non métriques et descriptifs du crâne déformé. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XIV° Série. Tome 3 fascicule 4, 1986. pp. 237-248
Mitochondrial DNA from pre‐Columbian Ciboneys from Cuba and the prehistoric colonization of the Caribbean
To assess the genetic affinities of extinct Ciboneys (also called Guanajuatabeys) from Cuba, 47 pre‐Columbian skeletal samples belonging to this group were analyzed using ancient DNA techniques. At the time of European contact, the center and east of Cuba were occupied by agriculturalist Taino groups, while the west was mainly inhabited by Ciboneys, hunter‐gatherers who have traditionally been considered a relic population descending from the ini…
Principal component analysis of gene frequencies and the origin of Basques
The genetic peculiarity of the Basque population has long been noted. We aim to describe Basque distinctiveness in space and assess the internal Basque heterogeneity. All these aspects are relevant to the question of the origin of Basques. After a thorough literature search, a data base was created containing all the available data on gene frequencies in the Iberian Peninsula and France. Twenty‐nine systems, comprising 71 alleles, were used to ca…
The Genetic History of the Iberian Peninsula: A Simulation
Human Mitochondrial DNA Variation and the Origin of Basques
The making of the oral microbiome in Agta hunter–gatherers
Ecological and genetic factors have influenced the composition of the human microbiome during our evolutionary history. We analysed the oral microbiota of the Agta, a hunter–gatherer population where some members have adopted an agricultural diet. We show that age is the strongest factor modulating the microbiome, probably through immunosenescence since we identified an increase in the number of species classified as pathogens with age. We also c…
Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure
Here we investigate the effects of extensive sociality and mobility on the oral microbiome of 138 Agta hunter–gatherers from the Philippines. Our comparisons of microbiome composition showed that the Agta are more similar to Central African BaYaka hunter–gatherers than to neighbouring farmers. We also defined the Agta social microbiome as a set of 137 oral bacteria (only 7% of 1980 amplicon sequence variants) significantly influenced by social co…
Les traits non métriques et descriptifs du crâne déformé
Vives E., Bertranpetit J. Les traits non métriques et descriptifs du crâne déformé. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XIV° Série. Tome 3 fascicule 4, 1986. pp. 237-248
Report of «IV Congreso Espanõl de Antropología Biológica»
Les traits non métriques et descriptifs du crâne déformé
Vives E., Bertranpetit J. Les traits non métriques et descriptifs du crâne déformé. In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XIV° Série. Tome 3 fascicule 4, 1986. pp. 237-248
Palmar flexion creases in schizophrenia
Palmar flexion creases have been studied in schizophrenics with a family history of schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders and without such a background, and compared to a control population. Palmar flexion creases have been analyzed according to the method suggested byBali & Chaube (1971). When compared to controls, differences in the DRBC and TRBC frequencies are significant in the subgroup with no family history, supporting the existence…
The Genetic History of the Iberian Peninsula: A Simulation
Principal component analysis of gene frequencies and the origin of Basques
The genetic peculiarity of the Basque population has long been noted. We aim to describe Basque distinctiveness in space and assess the internal Basque heterogeneity. All these aspects are relevant to the question of the origin of Basques. After a thorough literature search, a data base was created containing all the available data on gene frequencies in the Iberian Peninsula and France. Twenty‐nine systems, comprising 71 alleles, were used to ca…
Birth, marriage and death in illegitimacy: A study in northern Portugal
In populations in which the frequency of illegitimacy is high, illegitimates and legitimates may be subjected to different demographic and social pressures, with social and genetic consequences. A rural population from north-east Portugal is studied and variables from birth, marriage and death records are compared according to the legitimacy of the individuals. The analysis shows important differential demographic patterns in infant and child mor…
Biology, boundaries and borders
Towards Justice and Peace is a splendid title for a symposium and book to honour Professor Sunderland. It is also a very difficult title for a biological anthropologist. I make the distinction from social anthropology with some apology. There are of course many subdisciplines and traditions within Anthropology and I most associate Professor Sunderland's support of my university and myself with our attempts to foster cross-disciplinary discussion,…
Human Mitochondrial DNA Variation and the Origin of Basques
Cerdanya: Mountain valley, genetic highway
In this paper the records of 7844 marriages in the parishes of French and Spanish sectors of the Cerdanya Valley have been analysed. The Cerdanya is an eastern Pyrenean valley, today divided by the Franco-Spanish border, but once united within Catalonia. The results have been reported on the one hand on a small scale using local place names, and on the other hand on a wider scale across France and Spain, because interest lies both in the geograph…
Population history of Corsica: A linguistic and genetic analysis
Genetic and linguistic differentiations within Corsica were analysed and compared; the genetic relationships of Corsica to other Mediterranean populations were also studied. Lexical distances between 49 Corsican localities were computed from a standard word list; trees built from these distances were compared with average linkage and neighbour-joining trees of genetic distances. Our lexical distance results confirmed the north/south dialectal sub…
Sequence diversity of the control region of mitochondrial DNA in Tuscany and its implications for the peopling of Europe
The control region of mitochondrial DNA has been widely studied in various human populations. This paper reports sequence data for hypervariable segments 1 and 2 of the control region from a population from southern Tuscany (Italy). The results confirm the high variability of the control region, with 43 different haplotypes in 49 individuals sampled. The comparison of this set of data with other European populations allows the reconstruction of t…
Birth, Marriage and Death in Illegitimacy: A Study in Northern Portugal
Seasonality of Marriages in Spanish and French Parishes in the Cerdanya Valley, Eastern Pyrenees
The Cerdanya valley in the eastern Pyrenees has a physical unity into which a political frontier has been imposed to divide it. The social and cultural repercussions of this Franco-Spanish border have created obstacles to marriage which are not due to topography. Choice of month of marriage is under cultural control and the study of seasonality in marriages recorded in the registers of all the Cerdan parishes on both sides of the border demonstra…
Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations
Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Europe Is Clinal and Influenced Primarily by Geography, Rather than by Language
Genes as causes: Scientific fact or simplistic thinking
Editor,—The editors of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health should be congratulated on their far reaching audience. The comment entitled “Genes as causes: scientific fact or simplistic thinking?” is a good excuse for transdisciplinary discussion.1 The response to such comment could indeed be entitled “Genes as causes: simplistic thinking? No, scientific facts”. The “genes as causes” tenet is more than an opinion and there is ample evi…
Georgian and Kurd mtDNA sequence analysis shows a lack of correlation between languages and female genetic lineages
Mitochondrial DNA sequences from Georgians and Kurds were analyzed in order to test the possible correlation between female lineages and languages in these two neighboring West Eurasian groups. Mitochondrial sequence pools in both populations are very similar despite their different linguistic and prehistoric backgrounds. Both populations present mtDNA lineages that clearly belong to the European gene pool, as shown by 1) similar nucleotide and s…
Human mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in the Moroccan population of the Souss area
Detailed knowledge of the possible geographic origin of each sequence facilitated an interpretation of both internal diversity parameters and between-population relationships. The sub-Saharan admixture in the Souss Valley matched the south-north cline of sub-Saharan influence in North Africa, also evident in the genetic distances of North African populations to Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans
Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals and 24,000-year-old anatomically modern Europeans
During the late Pleistocene, early anatomically modern humans coexisted in Europe with the anatomically archaic Neandertals for some thousand years. Under the recent variants of the multiregional model of human evolution, modern and archaic forms were different but related populations within a single evolving species, and both have contributed to the gene pool of current humans. Conversely, the Out-of-Africa model considers the transition between…
Mitochondrial DNA from pre‐Columbian Ciboneys from Cuba and the prehistoric colonization of the Caribbean
To assess the genetic affinities of extinct Ciboneys (also called Guanajuatabeys) from Cuba, 47 pre‐Columbian skeletal samples belonging to this group were analyzed using ancient DNA techniques. At the time of European contact, the center and east of Cuba were occupied by agriculturalist Taino groups, while the west was mainly inhabited by Ciboneys, hunter‐gatherers who have traditionally been considered a relic population descending from the ini…
Great ape genetic diversity and population history
High-coverage sequencing of 79 (wild and captive) individuals representing all six non-human great ape species has identified over 88 million single nucleotide polymorphisms providing insight into ape genetic variation and evolutionary history and enabling comparison with human genetic diversity. In an effort to provide insights into great ape genetic variation, the authors sequence 79 wild- and captive-born individuals from across all six great …
Agta hunter–gatherer oral microbiomes are shaped by contact network structure
Here we investigate the effects of extensive sociality and mobility on the oral microbiome of 138 Agta hunter–gatherers from the Philippines. Our comparisons of microbiome composition showed that the Agta are more similar to Central African BaYaka hunter–gatherers than to neighbouring farmers. We also defined the Agta social microbiome as a set of 137 oral bacteria (only 7% of 1980 amplicon sequence variants) significantly influenced by social co…
The making of the oral microbiome in Agta hunter–gatherers
Ecological and genetic factors have influenced the composition of the human microbiome during our evolutionary history. We analysed the oral microbiota of the Agta, a hunter–gatherer population where some members have adopted an agricultural diet. We show that age is the strongest factor modulating the microbiome, probably through immunosenescence since we identified an increase in the number of species classified as pathogens with age. We also c…
Alcohol consumption, life history and extinction risk among Raute hunter–gatherers from Nepal
Hunter–gatherer populations underwent a mass extinction in the Neolithic, and in present times face challenges such as explicit sedentarisation policies. An exception is in Nepal, where the nomadic Raute people receive monthly governmental individual payments. One consequence of the money transfers has been a significant increase in alcohol consumption, with nearly all individuals drinking industrially produced alcohol. Here we investigate the Ra…
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