• DOI:10.1101/005603
Corpus ID: 196651459

Reconstructing Austronesian population history in Island Southeast Asia

@article{Lipson2014ReconstructingAP,
  title={Reconstructing Austronesian population history in Island Southeast Asia},
  author={M. Lipson and P. Loh and N. Patterson and Priya Moorjani and Y. Ko and M. Stoneking and B. Berger and D. Reich},
  journal={bioRxiv},
  year={2014}
}

M. Lipson, P. Loh, +5 authors D. Reich

Published 2014

Geography, Biology

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Austronesian languages are spread across half the globe, from Easter Island to Madagascar. Evidence from linguistics and archaeology indicates that the “Austronesian expansion,” which began 4–5 thousand years ago, likely had roots in Taiwan, but the ancestry of present-day Austronesian-speaking populations remains controversial. Here, focusing primarily on Island Southeast Asia, we analyze genome-wide data from 56 populations using new methods for tracing ancestral gene flow. We show that all… CONTINUE READING

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