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  • Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events 
    Haber, Marc; Platt, Daniel E.; Bonab, Maziar Ashrafian; Youhanna, Sonia C.; Soria-Hernanz, David F.; Martínez-Cruz, Begona; Douaihy, Bouchra; Ghassibe-Sabbagh, Michella; Rafatpanah, Hoshang; Ghanbari, Mohsen; Whale, John; Balanovsky, Oleg; Spencer Wells, R.; Comas, David; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Zalloua, Pierre A. (2019-07-25)
    Afghanistan has held a strategic position throughout history. It has been inhabited since the Paleolithic and later became a crossroad for expanding civilizations and empires. Afghanistan's location, history, and diverse ...
  • Geographical Structure of the Y-chromosomal Genetic Landscape of the Levant 
    El-Sibai, Mirvat; Platt, Daniel E.; Haber, Marc; Xue, Yali; Youhanna, Sonia C.; Wells, R. Spencer; Izaabel, Hassan; Sanyoura, May F.; Harmanani, Haidar; Bonab, Maziar Ashrafian; Behbehani, Jaafar; Hashwa, Fuad; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Zalloua, Pierre A.; The Genographic Consortium (2015-11-04)
    We have examined the male-specific phylogeography of the Levant and its surroundings by analyzing Y-chromosomal haplogroup distributions using 5874 samples (885 new) from 23 countries. The diversity within some of these ...
  • Identifying genetic traces of historical expansions 
    Zalloua, Pierre A.; Platt, Daniel E.; El Sibai, Mirvat; Khalife, Jade; Makhoul, Nadine; Haber, Marc; Xue, Yali; Izaabel, Hassan; Bosch, Elena; Adams, Susan M.; Arroyo, Eduardo; Lopez-Parra, Ana Maria; Aler, Mercedes; Picornell, Antonia; Ramon, Misericordia; Jobling, Mark A.; Comas, David; Bertranpetit, Jaume; Tyler-Smith, Chris (2019-07-18)
    The Phoenicians were the dominant traders in the Mediterranean Sea two thousand to three thousand years ago and expanded from their homeland in the Levant to establish colonies and trading posts throughout the Mediterranean, ...
  • Influences of history, geography, and religion on genetic structure 
    Haber, Marc; Platt, Daniel E.; Badro, Danielle A.; Xue, Yali; El-Sibai, Mirvat; Bonab, Maziar Ashrafian; Youhanna, Sonia C.; Saade, Stephanie; Soria-Hernanz, David F.; Royyuru, Ajay; Wells, R. Spencer; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Zalloua, Pierre A. (2017-08-10)
    Cultural expansions, including of religions, frequently leave genetic traces of differentiation and in-migration. These expansions may be driven by complex doctrinal differentiation, together with major population migrations ...
  • Mapping post-glacial expansions 
    Khazen, Georges; Zalloua, Pierre A.; Platt, Daniel E.; Dagher- Kharrat, Magda Bou; Douaihy, Bouchra; Bonab, Maziar Ashrafian; Salloum, Angelique; Mouzaya, Francis; Luiselli, Donata; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Renfrew, Colin; Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth (2017-04-25)
    Archaeological, palaeontological and geological evidence shows that post-glacial warming released human populations from their various climate-bound refugia. Yet specific connections between these refugia and the timing ...
  • Parallel evolution of genes and languages in the Caucasus region 
    Balanovsky, Oleg; Dibirova, Khadizhat; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg; Frolova, Svetlana; Pocheshkhova, Elvira; Haber, Marc; Platt, Daniel; Schurr, Theodore; Haak, Wolfgang; Kuznetsova, Marina; Magomed, Radzhadov; Balaganskaya, Olga; Romanov, Alexey; Renfrew, Colin; Wells, R.Spencer; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Balanovsky, Elena (2019-07-19)
    We analyzed 40 single nucleotide polymorphism and 19 short tandem repeat Y-chromosomal markers in a large sample of 1,525 indigenous individuals from 14 populations in the Caucasus and 254 additional individuals representing ...
  • Y-chromosomal diversity in Lebanon is structured by recent historical events 
    Zalloua, Pierre A.; Xue, Yali; Khalife, Jade; Makhoul, Nadine; Debiane, Labib; Platt, Daniel E.; Royyuru, Aya K.; Herrera, Rene J.; Hernanz, David F. Soria; Blue-Smith, Jason; Wells, R. Spencer; Comas, David; Bertranpetit, Jaune; Tyler-Smith, Chris (2019-07-18)
    Lebanon is an eastern Mediterranean country inhabited by approximately four million people with a wide variety of ethnicities and religions, including Muslim, Christian, and Druze. In the present study, 926 Lebanese men ...
  • Y-chromosome R-M343 African lineages and sickle cell disease reveal structured assimilation in Lebanon 
    Haber, Marc; Platt, Daniel E.; Khoury, Simon; Badro, Danielle A.; Abboud, Miguel; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Zalloua, Pierre (2019-07-22)
    We have sought to identify signals of assimilation of African male lines in Lebanon by exploring the association of sickle cell disease (SCD) in Lebanon with Y-chromosome haplogroups that are informative of the disease ...