{"id":69306,"date":"2012-05-10T20:45:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T04:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16673"},"modified":"2012-05-10T20:45:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T04:45:51","slug":"the-malagasy-ancestry-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/10\/the-malagasy-ancestry-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Malagasy Ancestry Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a heads up, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/josephpickrell\/\">Dr. Joseph K. Pickrell<\/a> has begun moving on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malagasyancestry.com\/home\">Malagasy Ancestry Project<\/a>. More information:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The genetics of the Malagasy people have been essentially unstudied. Analysis of Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA markers have corroborated the lingustic evidence that the Malagasy result from admixture between southeast Asian and east African populations [1,2]. However, no genome-wide data from Malagasy individuals has been analyzed to date (with the exception of the individuals in this project).<\/p>\n<p>Our goal is to address a number of questions about the genetics of the Malagasy. These include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<p>1. What fraction of ancestry in the Malagasy is from Africa rather than southeast Asia?<br \/>\n2. Does this fraction vary geographically and\/or ethnically?<br \/>\n3. Who were the populations that first settled Madagascar?<br \/>\n4. Was Madagascar settled once from southeast Asia, or multiple times?<br \/>\n5. Can we use genetics to more precisely date the arrival of African populations in Madagascar?<\/p>\n<p>Our approach to this project is to use data contributed from Malagasy individuals who have been genotyped by a personal genomics companies. If you would like to contribute your data, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malagasyancestry.com\/contact-me\">contact<\/a> us.<\/p>\n<p>Current results are available from the tabs at the top of this &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/2c2OPSFEOy0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a heads up, Dr. Joseph K. Pickrell has begun moving on the Malagasy Ancestry Project. More information:<br \/>\nThe genetics of the Malagasy people have been essentially unstudied. Analysis of Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA markers have corroborated t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,2027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-blog","category-the-malagasy-ancestry-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69306","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=69306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69918,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69306\/revisions\/69918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}