Title
Evolutionary genomic dynamics of Peruvians before, during, and after the Inca Empire
Date Issued
2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Harris D.N.
Song W.
Shetty A.C.
Kessler M.D.
Capristano S.
Montejo H.
Flores-Villanueva P.O.
O’Connor T.D.
Publisher(s)
National Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Native Americans from the Amazon, Andes, and coastal geographic regions of South America have a rich cultural heritage but are genetically understudied, therefore leading to gaps in our knowledge of their genomic architecture and demographic history. In this study, we sequence 150 genomes to high coverage combined with an additional 130 genotype array samples from Native American and mestizo populations in Peru. The majority of our samples possess greater than 90% Native American ancestry, which makes this the most extensive Native American sequencing project to date. Demographic modeling reveals that the peopling of Peru began ∼12,000 y ago, consistent with the hypothesis of the rapid peopling of the Americas and Peruvian archeological data. We find that the Native American populations possess distinct ancestral divisions, whereas the mestizo groups were admixtures of multiple Native American communities that occurred before and during the Inca Empire and Spanish rule. In addition, the mestizo communities also show Spanish introgression largely following Peruvian Independence, nearly 300 y after Spain conquered Peru. Further, we estimate migration events between Peruvian populations from all three geographic regions with the majority of between-region migration moving from the high Andes to the low-altitude Amazon and coast. As such, we present a detailed model of the evolutionary dynamics which impacted the genomes of modern-day Peruvians and a Native American ancestry dataset that will serve as a beneficial resource to addressing the underrepresentation of Native American ancestry in sequencing studies.
Start page
E6526
End page
E6535
Volume
115
Issue
28
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Historia
Genética humana
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85049612491
PubMed ID
Source
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN of the container
00278424
Sponsor(s)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We thank Susan O’Connor, Claire Fraser, Lance Nickel, Dr. Cesar Cabezas, and Ruth Shady Solis for their constructive comments and perspectives. We thank all those who facilitated the recruitment of participants, including the Direcciones Regionales de Salud from Loreto, Puno, Cusco, La Libertad, Huancavelica, Ica, Piura, Ancash, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Tacna, Ucayali, San Martin, Amazonas; Universidad Andina Nestor Caceres Velasquez Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional Jorge Basadre Grohmann, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Nacional San Agustín, Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Universidad Nacional Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo, and Universidad Nacional de Trujillo; and all participants in this study. This work was supported by the Center for Health Related Informatics and Bioimaging at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (D.N.H., M.D.K., A.C.S., and T.D.O.), the Institute for Genome Sciences and Program in Personalized Genomic Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (T.D.O.), and the Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Perú (K.S.L., O.C., C.P., D.T., V.B., O.T., C.S., M.G., H.M., P.O.F.-V., and H.G.).
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