Taskent Recep Ozgur, Gokcumen Omer
1 Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Hum Biol. 2017 Apr;89(2):107-117. doi: 10.13110/humanbiology.89.2.01.
Western Asia lies at the heart of the Old World, in the midst of Africa, Asia, and Europe. As such, this region has been populated and repopulated by myriad peoples, starting with the first migrants from Africa. All evidence points to Western Asia for the beginnings of sedentary life, and indeed, first the villages and later the cities of this land remain as archaeological wonders, revealing complex histories of multiple peoples and their interactions. With the wondrous breakthroughs in genomic studies, we now have the power to look at these histories with a truly quantitative lens. Here, we review the recent anthropological genomics literature pertaining to this region, with an outlook for the future challenges and exciting possibilities for the field.
西亚位于旧大陆的中心，处于非洲、亚洲和欧洲之间。因此，从第一批非洲移民开始，这片地区就不断有众多民族在此繁衍生息。所有证据都表明，西亚是定居生活的起源地，事实上，这片土地上最早的村庄以及后来的城市至今仍是考古学上的奇观，揭示了多个民族的复杂历史及其相互作用。随着基因组研究取得惊人突破，我们现在有能力用真正定量的视角审视这些历史。在此，我们回顾了近期与该地区相关的人类基因组学文献，并展望了该领域未来的挑战和令人兴奋的可能性。
