Journal
ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 5, Pages 453-459Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2013.852244
Keywords
African ancestry; Colombia; male lineages; palenque; population genetics; Y-SNP haplogroups
Funding
- FCT, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
- FCT [SFRH/BPD/76207/2011, SFRH/BPD/65000/2009]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/65000/2009, SFRH/BPD/76207/2011] Funding Source: FCT
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Objectives: To determine the African, European and Native-American paternal contributions in genetic samples from the Department of Bolivar (Colombia) with the aims of establishing (1) possible population substructures, and (2) the proportion of biological African heritage in admixed populations of European, Amerindian, and African descent. Methods: Y-SNPs were typed in samples from six communities, including Palenque (renowned for its African linguistic and cultural heritage). Results: Findings reveal a high diversity of Y-haplogroups. With the exception of Palenque, the sum of European male lineages uniformly exceeded 57%. In Palenque, African lineages accounted for 57.7% of its chromosomes, with European male lineages constituting a mere 38.5%. In Pinillos, a significant proportion (23.8%) of the chromosomes belongs to the Native American haplogroup Q1a3a*-M3. Genetic differentiation analyses reveal significant divergences in most pairwise comparisons among the Bolivar municipalities, and the same holds between Bolivar and other South American populations. Conclusions: Heterogeneous patterns of admixture reveal a genetic substructure within the Department of Bolivar. On the paternal side, five out of the six communities studied exhibit a predominantly European gene pool. The exception is Palenque, where European input (38%) is more significant than we had expected.
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