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Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years

A key link to understand human history in Island Southeast Asia is the Philippine archipelago and its poorly investigated genetic diversity. We collected and analyzed the most comprehensive set of population-genomic data for the Philippines, 1028 individuals covering 115 indigenous communities. We demonstrate that the Philippines were populated by at least five waves of human migration. The Cordillerans migrated into the Philippines prior to the arrival of rice agriculture, where some remain to be the least admixed East Asians carrying an ancestry shared by all Austronesian-speaking populations; thereby challenging an exclusive Out-of-Taiwan model of joint farming-language-people dispersal. Altogether, our findings portray Philippines as a crucial gateway, with a multilayered history, that ultimately changed the genetic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region.

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Dataset ID Description Technology Samples
EGAD00010002088 1094
Publications Citations
Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 118: 2021 e2026132118
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Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world.
Curr Biol 31: 2021 4219-4230.e10
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