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@article{item_3570907,
title = {{Medieval DNA from Soqotra points to Eurasian origins of an isolated population at the crossroads of Africa and Arabia}},
author = {Sirak, Kendra and Jansen Van Rensburg, Julian and Brielle, Esther and Chen, Bowen and Lazaridis, Iosif and Ringbauer, Harald and Mah, Matthew and Mallick, Swapan and Micco, Adam and Rohland, Nadin and Callan, Kimberly and Curtis, Elizabeth and Kearns, Aisling and Lawson, Ann Marie and Workman, J. Noah and Zalzala, Fatma and Ahmed Al-Orqbi, Ahmed Saeed and Ahmed Salem, Esmail Mohammed and Salem Hasan, Ali Mohammed and Britton, Daniel Charles and Reich, David},
language = {eng},
issn = {2397-334X},
doi = {10.1038/s41559-024-02322-x},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-04},
abstract = {{Soqotra, an island situated at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden in the northwest Indian Ocean between Africa and Arabia, is home to {\textasciitilde}60,000 people subsisting through fishing and semi-nomadic pastoralism who speak a Modern South Arabian language. Most of what is known about Soqotri history derives from writings of foreign travellers who provided little detail about local people, and the geographic origins and genetic affinities of early Soqotri people has not yet been investigated directly. Here we report genome-wide data from 39 individuals who lived between {\textasciitilde}650 and 1750 ce at six locations across the island and document strong genetic connections between Soqotra and the similarly isolated Hadramawt region of coastal South Arabia that likely reflects a source for the peopling of Soqotra. Medieval Soqotri can be modelled as deriving {\textasciitilde}86{\textpercent} of their ancestry from a population such as that found in the Hadramawt today, with the remaining {\textasciitilde}14{\textpercent} best proxied by an Iranian-related source with up to 2{\textpercent} ancestry from the Indian sub-continent, possibly reflecting genetic exchanges that occurred along with archaeologically documented trade from these regions. In contrast to all other genotyped populations of the Arabian Peninsula, genome-level analysis of the medieval Soqotri is consistent with no sub-Saharan African admixture dating to the Holocene. The deep ancestry of people from medieval Soqotra and the Hadramawt is also unique in deriving less from early Holocene Levantine farmers and more from groups such as Late Pleistocene hunter{\textendash}gatherers from the Levant (Natufians) than other mainland Arabians. This attests to migrations by early farmers having less impact in southernmost Arabia and Soqotra and provides compelling evidence that there has not been complete population replacement between the Pleistocene and Holocene throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Medieval Soqotra harboured a small population that showed qualitatively different marriage practices from modern Soqotri, with first-cousin unions occurring significantly less frequently than today. {\copyright} The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2024. Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.{\textless}br{\textgreater}{\textless}br{\textgreater}Ancient DNA from Soqotra, an island off the coast of Yemen, evidences a population history differing from other areas of the Arabian Peninsula and suggests there has not been complete population replacement throughout the region between the Pleistocene and Holocene. {\copyright} The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2024. Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.}},
journal = {{Nature Ecology {\&} Evolution}},
volume = {8},
pages = {817--829},
}