Genomic landscape of human diversity across Madagascar

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 2704 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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Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00010001612	MAGEcontrol samples using omni 2.5M	Genotype	737

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Genomic landscape of human diversity across Madagascar. Pierron D, Heiske M, Razafindrazaka H, Rakoto I, Rabetokotany N, Ravololomanga B, Rakotozafy LM, Rakotomalala MM, Razafiarivony M, Rasoarifetra B, Raharijesy MA, Razafindralambo L, Ramilisonina, Fanony F, Lejamble S, Thomas O, Mohamed Abdallah A, Rocher C, Arachiche A, Tonaso L, Pereda-Loth V, Schiavinato S, Brucato N, Ricaut FX, Kusuma P, Sudoyo H, Ni S, Boland A, Deleuze JF, Beaujard P, Grange P, Adelaar S, Stoneking M, Rakotoarisoa JA, Radimilahy C, Letellier T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114: 2017 E6498-E6506	31
Strong selection during the last millennium for African ancestry in the admixed population of Madagascar. Pierron D, Heiske M, Razafindrazaka H, Pereda-Loth V, Sanchez J, Alva O, Arachiche A, Boland A, Olaso R, Deleuze JF, Ricaut FX, Rakotoarisoa JA, Radimilahy C, Stoneking M, Letellier T. Nat Commun 9: 2018 932	30

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Genomic landscape of human diversity across Madagascar.
Pierron D, Heiske M, Razafindrazaka H, Rakoto I, Rabetokotany N, Ravololomanga B, Rakotozafy LM, Rakotomalala MM, Razafiarivony M, Rasoarifetra B, Raharijesy MA, Razafindralambo L, Ramilisonina, Fanony F, Lejamble S, Thomas O, Mohamed Abdallah A, Rocher C, Arachiche A, Tonaso L, Pereda-Loth V, Schiavinato S, Brucato N, Ricaut FX, Kusuma P, Sudoyo H, Ni S, Boland A, Deleuze JF, Beaujard P, Grange P, Adelaar S, Stoneking M, Rakotoarisoa JA, Radimilahy C, Letellier T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114: 2017 E6498-E6506

Strong selection during the last millennium for African ancestry in the admixed population of Madagascar.
Pierron D, Heiske M, Razafindrazaka H, Pereda-Loth V, Sanchez J, Alva O, Arachiche A, Boland A, Olaso R, Deleuze JF, Ricaut FX, Rakotoarisoa JA, Radimilahy C, Stoneking M, Letellier T. Nat Commun 9: 2018 932