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Genomic landscape of human diversity across Madagascar

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, July 2017
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Title
Genomic landscape of human diversity across Madagascar
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, July 2017
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1704906114
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Authors

Denis Pierron, Margit Heiske, Harilanto Razafindrazaka, Ignace Rakoto, Nelly Rabetokotany, Bodo Ravololomanga, Lucien M-A Rakotozafy, Mireille Mialy Rakotomalala, Michel Razafiarivony, Bako Rasoarifetra, Miakabola Andriamampianina Raharijesy, Lolona Razafindralambo, Ramilisonina, Fulgence Fanony, Sendra Lejamble, Olivier Thomas, Ahmed Mohamed Abdallah, Christophe Rocher, Amal Arachiche, Laure Tonaso, Veronica Pereda-Loth, Stéphanie Schiavinato, Nicolas Brucato, Francois-Xavier Ricaut, Pradiptajati Kusuma, Herawati Sudoyo, Shengyu Ni, Anne Boland, Jean-Francois Deleuze, Philippe Beaujard, Philippe Grange, Sander Adelaar, Mark Stoneking, Jean-Aimé Rakotoarisoa, Chantal Radimilahy, Thierry Letellier

Abstract

Although situated ∼400 km from the east coast of Africa, Madagascar exhibits cultural, linguistic, and genetic traits from both Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa. The settlement history remains contentious; we therefore used a grid-based approach to sample at high resolution the genomic diversity (including maternal lineages, paternal lineages, and genome-wide data) across 257 villages and 2,704 Malagasy individuals. We find a common Bantu and Austronesian descent for all Malagasy individuals with a limited paternal contribution from Europe and the Middle East. Admixture and demographic growth happened recently, suggesting a rapid settlement of Madagascar during the last millennium. However, the distribution of African and Asian ancestry across the island reveals that the admixture was sex biased and happened heterogeneously across Madagascar, suggesting independent colonization of Madagascar from Africa and Asia rather than settlement by an already admixed population. In addition, there are geographic influences on the present genomic diversity, independent of the admixture, showing that a few centuries is sufficient to produce detectable genetic structure in human populations.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 158 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 23%
Researcher 26 16%
Student > Master 16 10%
Other 10 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 6%
Other 34 22%
Unknown 26 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 49 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 31 20%
Environmental Science 10 6%
Social Sciences 7 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 3%
Other 25 16%
Unknown 31 20%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 132. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 March 2024.
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