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Long-term genetic stability and a high-altitude East Asian origin for the peoples of the high valleys of the Himalayan arc
Edited by Lynn B. Jorde, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Richard G. Klein May 17, 2016 (received for review October 21, 2015)

Article Information
- Published in print July 5, 2016.
- Published first June 20, 2016.
Author Information
- Choongwon Jeonga,
- Andrew T. Ozgab,
- David B. Witonskya,
- Helena Malmströmc,
- Hanna Edlundc,
- Courtney A. Hofmanb,
- Richard W. Haganb,
- Mattias Jakobssonc,
- Cecil M. Lewisb,
- Mark S. Aldenderferd,1,
- Anna Di Rienzoa,1, and
- Christina Warinnerb,e,1
- aDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637;
- bDepartment of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019;
- cDepartment of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-752 36, Sweden;
- dSchool of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, University of California, Merced, CA 95343;
- eInstitute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich CH-8057, Switzerland
Edited by Lynn B. Jorde, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Richard G. Klein May 17, 2016 (received for review October 21, 2015)
Footnotes
- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: christina.warinner{at}ou.edu, maldenderfer{at}ucmerced.edu, or dirienzo{at}bsd.uchicago.edu.
Author contributions: C.M.L., M.S.A., A.D.R., and C.W. designed research; A.T.O., H.M., H.E., C.A.H., R.W.H., M.S.A., and C.W. performed research; M.J. and A.D.R. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; C.J., D.B.W., and C.W. analyzed data; and C.J. and C.W. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. L.B.J. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial Board.
Data deposition: Metagenomic DNA sequences have been deposited in the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA) (project accession no. SRP065070 and sample accession nos. SRR2751055–SRR2751058, SRR2751060–SRR2751063, SRR2751066–SRR2751067, SRR2751070, SRR2751142, SRR2751148, SRR2751152, SRR3222643, SRR3222649, SRR3222655, SRR3222659, SRR3222661, SRR3222664, SRR3222686, SRR3222749, SRR3222758, SRR3222765, and SRR3222772).
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1520844113/-/DCSupplemental.
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