期刊
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 30, 期 8, 页码 1761-1778出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst093
关键词
Tibetan Plateau; demographic history; human migration; last glacial maximum
资金
- National 973 Program of China [2012CB518202, 2011CB512107]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91231203, 31123005, 30870295, 91131001]
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution [GREKF11-02, GREKF10-02, GREKF13-04]
- Ministry of Education of China [707051]
- Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province [2009CD107, 2010CI044]
Tibetans live on the highest plateau in the world, their current population size is approximately 5 million, and most of them live at an altitude exceeding 3,500 m. Therefore, the Tibetan Plateau is a remarkable area for cultural and biological studies of human population history. However, the chronological profile of the Tibetan Plateau's colonization remains an unsolved question of human prehistory. To reconstruct the prehistoric colonization and demographic history of modern humans on the Tibetan Plateau, we systematically sampled 6,109 Tibetan individuals from 41 geographic populations across the entire region of the Tibetan Plateau and analyzed the phylogeographic patterns of both paternal (n = 2,354) and maternal (n = 6,109) lineages as well as genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism markers (n = 50) in Tibetan populations. We found that there have been two distinct, major prehistoric migrations of modern humans into the Tibetan Plateau. The first migration was marked by ancient Tibetan genetic signatures dated to approximately 30,000 years ago, indicating that the initial peopling of the Tibetan Plateau by modern humans occurred during the Upper Paleolithic rather than Neolithic. We also found evidences for relatively young (only 7-10 thousand years old) shared Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA haplotypes between Tibetans and Han Chinese, suggesting a second wave of migration during the early Neolithic. Collectively, the genetic data indicate that Tibetans have been adapted to a high altitude environment since initial colonization of the Tibetan Plateau in the early Upper Paleolithic, before the last glacial maximum, followed by a rapid population expansion that coincided with the establishment of farming and yak pastoralism on the Plateau in the early Neolithic.
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