古代美索不达米亚的泰米尔商人。

Tamil merchant in ancient Mesopotamia.

作者信息

Palanichamy Malliya Gounder, Mitra Bikash, Debnath Monojit, Agrawal Suraksha, Chaudhuri Tapas Kumar, Zhang Ya-Ping

机构信息

Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bioresources, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.

Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bioresources, Yunnan University, Kunming, China; Cellular Immunology Laboratory, University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohanpur, Darjeeling, India.

出版信息

PLoS One. 2014 Oct 9;9(10):e109331. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109331. eCollection 2014.

DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0109331

PMID:25299580

原文链接:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4192148/

Abstract

Recent analyses of ancient Mesopotamian mitochondrial genomes have suggested a genetic link between the Indian subcontinent and Mesopotamian civilization. There is no consensus on the origin of the ancient Mesopotamians. They may be descendants of migrants, who founded regional Mesopotamian groups like that of Terqa or they may be merchants who were involved in trans Mesopotamia trade. To identify the Indian source population showing linkage to the ancient Mesopotamians, we screened a total of 15,751 mitochondrial DNAs (11,432 from the literature and 4,319 from this study) representing all major populations of India. Our results although suggest that south India (Tamil Nadu) and northeast India served as the source of the ancient Mesopotamian mtDNA gene pool, mtDNA of these ancient Mesopotamians probably contributed by Tamil merchants who were involved in the Indo-Roman trade.

摘要

最近对古代美索不达米亚线粒体基因组的分析表明，印度次大陆与美索不达米亚文明之间存在基因联系。关于古代美索不达米亚人的起源尚无定论。他们可能是移民的后代，这些移民建立了像泰尔卡这样的美索不达米亚地区群体，或者他们可能是参与美索不达米亚贸易的商人。为了确定与古代美索不达米亚人有联系的印度源人群体，我们总共筛选了15751个线粒体DNA（11432个来自文献，4319个来自本研究），这些线粒体DNA代表了印度所有主要人群。我们的结果虽然表明印度南部（泰米尔纳德邦）和印度东北部是古代美索不达米亚线粒体DNA基因库的来源，但这些古代美索不达米亚人的线粒体DNA可能是由参与印度-罗马贸易的泰米尔商人贡献的。