{"id":2016,"date":"2023-03-24T04:06:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T04:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2023-03-24T04:06:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T04:06:24","slug":"hunter-gatherer-genes-helped-early-european-farmers-survive-disease-reveals-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Hunter-gatherer genes helped early European farmers survive disease, reveals study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2023\/hunter-gatherer-genes.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter-gatherer genes helped early European farmers survive disease, reveals study\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2023\/hunter-gatherer-genes.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter-gatherer genes helped early European farmers survive disease, reveals study\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(A) Manhattan plot of p values from the Fadm scan across the genome for deviations from expected admixed allele frequencies. Inset, quantile-quantile plot of expected and observed p values. P values were obtained by fitting a gamma distribution to a null sample of 532 approximately independent loci, separated by at least 5 million base pairs (Mb). (B) Local ancestry deviations (LAD) in the Middle Neolithic across the genome, with top peaks of each ancestry labeled. (C) Zoomed-in region of the MHC (chromosome 6), with statistics derived from 1240k and whole-genome shotgun data across the MHC regions I, II, and III on chromosome 6. Credit:\u00a0<em>Current Biology<\/em>\u00a0(2023). DOI: 10.1016\/j.cub.2023.02.049<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When early Stone Age farmers first moved into Europe from the Near East about 8,000 years ago, they met and began mixing with the existing hunter-gatherer populations. Now genome-wide studies of hundreds of ancient genomes from this period show more hunter-gatherer ancestry in adaptive-immunity genes in the mixed population than would be expected by chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-hunter-gatherer-genes-early-european-farmers.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-hunter-gatherer-genes-early-european-farmers.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When early Stone Age farmers first moved into Europe from the Near East about 8,000 years ago, they met and began mixing with the existing hunter-gatherer populations. Now genome-wide studies of hundreds of ancient genomes from this period show more hunter-gatherer ancestry in adaptive-immunity genes in the mixed population than would be expected by chance. Read more here: https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-hunter-gatherer-genes-early-european-farmers.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}