{"id":56907,"date":"2011-12-16T21:38:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T05:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=14830"},"modified":"2011-12-16T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T05:38:26","slug":"how-to-reconstruct-the-indo-europeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/16\/how-to-reconstruct-the-indo-europeans\/","title":{"rendered":"How to reconstruct the Indo-Europeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As must be obvious, <b>I think now that the spread of Indo-European languages had <i>some<\/i> demographic impact.<\/b> It wasn&#8217;t analogous to the spread of English to Jamaica, or the existence of French as an official language in Congo-Brazzaville. Because of this, I now believe it is possible in the near future that scientists will reconstruct the genome of the original Indo-Europeans. How? <\/p>\n<p>1) Find the intersection of genetic segments on the chromosomal level which share identity-by-descent between widely separated Indo-European groups. For example, Greeks, Swedes, and Punjabis.<\/p>\n<p>2) Check to see which of these intersecting elements is <i>not<\/i> found in nearby non-Indo-European groups. For example, Basques, Finns, and non-Brahmin South Indian Dravidian speakers. At least to an appreciable frequency.<\/p>\n<p>My current supposition is that proportionally this component won&#8217;t be preponderant in most places, but, it will be significant. By reconstructing an Indo-European genome we may actually have the ability to ascertain the population&#8217;s urheimat, as we can compare its genetic distance to extant populations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/DjiZBLWQYo4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As must be obvious, I think now that the spread of Indo-European languages had some demographic impact. It wasn&#8217;t analogous to the spread of English to Jamaica, or the existence of French as an official language in Congo-Brazzaville. Because of this, I now believe it is possible in the near future that scientists will reconstruct [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,82,481,525,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-human-genetics","category-human-genomics","category-indo-europeans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56907"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57714,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56907\/revisions\/57714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}