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"East Asian Highlanders" (Tibetans) carry both Tibetan ancestry and Yellow River ancestry. Japanese people were found to have a tripartite origin; consisting of Jōmon ancestry, Amur ancestry, and Yellow River ancestry. [20] [21] East Asians carry a variation of the MFSD12 gene, which is responsible for lighter skin colour. [22]
Despite there being a strong presence of East Asians in the United Kingdom there are considerably more South Asians, for example the 2001 Census recorded 1.05 million people of Indian origin and 247,000 of Chinese origin in the UK. [21]
The word Asia originated from the Ancient Greek word Ἀσία, [9] first attributed to Herodotus (about 440 BCE) in reference to Anatolia or to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. It originally was just a name for the east bank of the Aegean Sea , an area known to the Hittites as Assuwa .
[60] [61] Ancestral East Asians are, based on archaeogenetic data, suggested to have originated in Mainland Southeast Asia, and expanded outgoing from Southern China in multiple waves northwards and southwards respectively. [62] [63] The major East Asian language families are the Sinitic, Japonic, and Koreanic families.
A review paper by Melinda A. Yang (in 2022) summarized and concluded that a distinctive "Basal-East Asian population" referred to as 'East- and Southeast Asian lineage' (ESEA); which is ancestral to modern East Asians, Southeast Asians, Polynesians, and Siberians, originated in Mainland Southeast Asia at ~50,000BC, and expanded through multiple ...
In South Asia, R1a1 has been observed often with high frequency in a number of demographic groups, [39] [38] [73] as well as with highest STR diversity which lead some to see it as the locus of origin. [57] [43] [74] While R1a originated c. 22,000 [57] to 25,000 [75] years ago, its subclade M417 (R1a1a1) diversified c. 5,800 years ago. [75]
[27] [28] The data also shows that there have been genetic exchanges between Asia, the Arctic, and Greenland since the initial peopling of the Americas. [28] [29] According to an autosomal genetic study from 2012, [30] Indigenous Americans descend from at least three main migrant waves from Northern Asia. Most of it is traced back to a single ...
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