Paternal gene pool of Malays in Southeast Asia and its applications for the early expansion of Austronesians
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Max Planck Independent Research Group on Population Genomics, CAS‐MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB), Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS Shanghai China, B&R International Joint Laboratory for Eurasian Anthropology Fudan University Shanghai China, Xiamen University, MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences Fudan University Shanghai China, Human Phenome Institute Fudan University Shanghai China, Center for collation and studies of Fujian local literature Fujian University of Technology Fuzhou China, Enlighten Co., Ltd. Shanghai China, National University |
| ANO | Não informado |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajhb.23486 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
ObjectivesThe origin and differentiation of Austronesian populations and their languages have long fascinated linguists, archeologists, and geneticists. However, the founding process of Austronesians and when they separated from their close relatives, such as the Daic and Austro‐Asiatic populations in the mainland of Asia, remain unclear. In this study, we explored the paternal origin of Malays in Southeast Asia and the early differentiation of Austronesians.Materials and MethodsWe generated whole Y‐chromosome sequences of 50 Malays and co‐analyzed 200 sequences from other Austronesians and related populations. We generated a revised phylogenetic tree with time estimation.ResultsWe identified six founding paternal lineages among the studied Malays samples. These founding lineages showed a surprisingly coincident expansion age at 5000 to 6000 years ago. We also found numerous mostly close related samples of the founding lineages of Malays among populations from Mainland of Asia.ConclusionOur analyses provided a refined phylogenetic resolution for the dominant paternal lineages of Austronesians found by previous studies. We suggested that the co‐expansion of numerous founding paternal lineages corresponds to the initial differentiation of the most recent common ancestor of modern Austronesians. The splitting time and divergence pattern in perspective of paternal Y‐chromosome evidence are highly consistent with the previous theories of ethnologists, linguists, and archeologists.