Tamil Merchant in Ancient Mesopotamia

被引：3
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作者：
Palanichamy, Malliya Gounder [1 ]
Mitra, Bikash [1 ,3 ]
Debnath, Monojit [2 ]
Agrawal, Suraksha [4 ]
Chaudhuri, Tapas Kumar [3 ]
Zhang, Ya-Ping [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Yunnan Univ, Lab Conservat & Utilizat Bioresources, Kunming, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Zool, State Key Lab Genet Resources & Evolut, Kunming, Peoples R China
[3] Univ N Bengal, Cellular Immunol Lab, Darjeeling, India
[4] Sanjay Gandhi Inst Med Sci, Dept Med Genet, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
来源：
PLOS ONE | 2014年 / 9卷 / 10期
基金：
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; MACROHAPLOGROUP-M; INDIA; PHYLOGENY; EXPANSION; ASIA;
D O I：
10.1371/journal.pone.0109331
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
Recent analyses of ancient Mesopotamian mitochondrial genomes have suggested a genetic link between the Indian subcontinent and Mesopotamian civilization. There is no consensus on the origin of the ancient Mesopotamians. They may be descendants of migrants, who founded regional Mesopotamian groups like that of Terqa or they may be merchants who were involved in trans Mesopotamia trade. To identify the Indian source population showing linkage to the ancient Mesopotamians, we screened a total of 15,751 mitochondrial DNAs (11,432 from the literature and 4,319 from this study) representing all major populations of India. Our results although suggest that south India (Tamil Nadu) and northeast India served as the source of the ancient Mesopotamian mtDNA gene pool, mtDNA of these ancient Mesopotamians probably contributed by Tamil merchants who were involved in the Indo-Roman trade.
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