TY - JOUR
T1 - Y Chromosome Story-Ancient Genetic Data as a Supplementary Tool for the Analysis of Modern Croatian Genetic Pool
AU - Primorac, Dragan
AU - Šarac, Jelena
AU - Havaš Auguštin, Dubravka
AU - Novokmet, Natalija
AU - Bego, Tamer
AU - Pinhasi, Ron
AU - Šlaus, Mario
AU - Novak, Mario
AU - Marjanović, Damir
PY - 2024/6/6
Y1 - 2024/6/6
N2 - Due to its turbulent demographic history, marked by extensive settlement and gene flow from diverse regions of Eurasia, Southeastern Europe (SEE) has consistently served as a genetic crossroads between East and West and a junction for the migrations that reshaped Europe's population. SEE, including modern Croatian territory, was a crucial passage from the Near East and even more distant regions and human populations in this region, as almost any other European population represents a remarkable genetic mixture. Modern humans have continuously occupied this region since the Upper Paleolithic era, and different (pre)historical events have left a distinctive genetic signature on the historical narrative of this region. Our views of its history have been mostly renewed in the last few decades by extraordinary data obtained from Y-chromosome studies. In recent times, the international research community, bringing together geneticists and archaeologists, has steadily released a growing number of ancient genomes from this region, shedding more light on its complex past population dynamics and shaping the genetic pool in Croatia and this part of Europe.
AB - Due to its turbulent demographic history, marked by extensive settlement and gene flow from diverse regions of Eurasia, Southeastern Europe (SEE) has consistently served as a genetic crossroads between East and West and a junction for the migrations that reshaped Europe's population. SEE, including modern Croatian territory, was a crucial passage from the Near East and even more distant regions and human populations in this region, as almost any other European population represents a remarkable genetic mixture. Modern humans have continuously occupied this region since the Upper Paleolithic era, and different (pre)historical events have left a distinctive genetic signature on the historical narrative of this region. Our views of its history have been mostly renewed in the last few decades by extraordinary data obtained from Y-chromosome studies. In recent times, the international research community, bringing together geneticists and archaeologists, has steadily released a growing number of ancient genomes from this region, shedding more light on its complex past population dynamics and shaping the genetic pool in Croatia and this part of Europe.
KW - Humans
KW - Chromosomes, Human, Y/genetics
KW - Croatia
KW - Genetics, Population/methods
KW - Gene Pool
KW - DNA, Ancient/analysis
KW - Gene Flow
KW - Human Migration
KW - Male
KW - modern genetic data
KW - Y chromosome
KW - SEE
KW - ancient genetic data
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85197201261&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/genes15060748
DO - 10.3390/genes15060748
M3 - Article
C2 - 38927684
SN - 2073-4425
VL - 15
JO - Genes
JF - Genes
IS - 6
M1 - 748
ER -