• This leads scholars to conclude that, apart from the Mongoloid group that had made their way into Hokkaido, there must have been a second Mongoloid group (also originating from the ancestral Baikal Buryat people) who must have made their way from Siberia and into the southern Ryukyan part of the Japanese archipelago (and later Kyushu) via the other land bridge across the Tsushima Strait from the Korean peninsula. (dakarctu.com)
  • The first Mongoloid group is thought to have made their way through a corridor North of the Tibetan massif while the second Mongoloid group took the corridor South of the Himalayas heading in southerly direction into Kyushu or southeast Asia, then into Ryukyu islands. (dakarctu.com)
  • In 2020, Americans who identified as Asian alone (19,886,049) or in combination with other races (4,114,949) made up 7.2% of the U.S. population. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conceptions of race, as well as specific ways of grouping races , vary by culture and over time, and are often controversial for scientific as well as social and political reasons. (daynal.org)
  • Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peoples of the continent of Asia, the usage of the term "Asian" by the United States Census Bureau only includes people with origins or ancestry from the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and excludes people with ethnic origins in certain parts of Asia, including West Asia who are now categorized as Middle Eastern Americans. (wikipedia.org)
  • ; magyarok (plural) are a nation and ethnic group who speak Hungarian and are primarily associated with Hungary . (donauschwaben-usa.org)
  • For example, the Ancient Egyptian sacred text called Book of Gates identifies four ethnic categories that are now conventionally labeled "Egyptians", "Asiatics", "Libyans", and "Nubians", but such distinctions tended to conflate differences as defined by physical features such as skin tone, with tribal and national identity. (daynal.org)
  • Chinese, Indian, and Filipino Americans make up the largest share of the Asian American population with 5 million, 4.3 million, and 4 million people respectively. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most commonly used definition of Asian American is the U.S. Census Bureau definition, which includes all people with origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Copper Age) or early Bronze Age by the Hattic people whose origins were in the highlands that extend from the Caucasus mountains to the Zargos mountains and who have substantial Iranian Neolithic ancestry (which in turn was derived, mostly in situ from people with Caucasian hunter-gatherer ancestry). (blogspot.com)
  • Significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various other parts of the world, most of them in the United States , Germany , the United Kingdom , Brazil , Argentina , Chile , Canada and Australia . (donauschwaben-usa.org)
  • The term race refers to the concept of dividing people into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of characteristics and beliefs about common ancestry. (daynal.org)
  • Smedley 1999) As Europeans encountered people from different parts of the world , they speculated about the physical, social, and cultural differences among various human groups. (daynal.org)
  • Meltzer 1993) Drawing on Classical sources and upon their own internal interactions - for example, the hostility between the English and Irish was a powerful influence on early thinking about the differences between people (Takaki 1993) - Europeans began to sort themselves and others into groups associated with physical appearance and with deeply ingrained behaviors and capacities. (daynal.org)
  • Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). (wikipedia.org)
  • A PCA with an Iron age Etruscan though from an upcoming paper months ago though had him by Bulgarians, which goes against the idea non EEF West Asian blood came mostly in Roman times. (blogspot.com)
  • There's really no way to know when non EEF West Asian blood came into SouthEast Europe. (blogspot.com)
  • Changing patterns of immigration and an extensive period of exclusion of Asian immigrants have resulted in demographic changes that have in turn affected the formal and common understandings of what defines Asian American. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today, "Asian American" is the accepted term for most formal purposes, such as government and academic research, although it is often shortened to Asian in common usage. (wikipedia.org)
  • The progenitors of the first farmers of Europe were predominantly Anatolian first farmers in ancestry who absorbed some neighboring early farmer and European hunter-gatherer admixture and technologies during the course of their expansion. (blogspot.com)
  • Yuan ZY, Wu YK , Yan F, Murphy RW , Papenfuss TJ , Wake DB , Zhang YP, Che J. Comparative multi-locus assessment of modern Asian newts ( , , and : Salamandridae) in southern China suggests a shared biogeographic history. (academictree.org)
  • The researchers also state that they utilized 17 specimens from relict groups such as the Pericues from Mexico and Fuego-Patagonians from the southernmost tip of South America. (dna-explained.com)
  • The rise of the Atlantic slave trade , which gradually displaced an earlier trade in slaves from throughout the world, created a further incentive to categorize human groups in order to justify the subordination of African slaves. (daynal.org)
  • According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "Asian person" in the United States is most often thought of as a person of East Asian descent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Figure D distinguishes between Dravidian and non-Dravidian South Asians. (blogspot.com)
  • These range from Balochis with origins in Aleppo (modern Syria) to Brahuis who are indigenous Dravidian, and Baltis of Sino-Tibetan ancestry to Pashtuns of Jewish or Central Asian origins. (riazhaq.com)
  • Application of our approach suggests great variation within and among populations in the extent of homozygosity suggesting both demographic history (such as population bottlenecks) and recent ancestry events (such as consanguinity) play an important role in patterning variation in large modern human populations. (blogspot.com)
  • Human genomics is witnessing an ongoing paradigm shift from a single reference sequence to a pangenome form, but populations of Asian ancestry are underrepresented. (saiita.com.cn)
  • The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) recently constructed a draft human pangenome reference based on 47 samples of worldwide populations, but with East Asian population samples underrepresented ( n = 4) 1 . (saiita.com.cn)
  • Although the need to improve the representation of diverse ancestral backgrounds in genomic research is well known 7 , 8 , substantially fewer genomic studies have been conducted in populations of Asian ancestry compared with populations of European ancestry. (saiita.com.cn)
  • In particular, only three Southern Han Chinese (CHS) samples were included in the HPRC reference, too few to represent the genomic diversity of ethnic groups in a region such as China, which is populated by 1.44 billion people. (saiita.com.cn)
  • Here we present data from the first phase of the Chinese Pangenome Consortium, including a collection of 116 high-quality and haplotype-phased de novo assemblies based on 58 core samples representing 36 minority Chinese ethnic groups. (saiita.com.cn)
  • The Chinese Pangenome Consortium data demonstrate a remarkable increase in the discovery of novel and missing sequences when individuals are included from underrepresented minority ethnic groups. (saiita.com.cn)
  • China harbours a great genetic diversity, with 55 officially recognized minority ethnic groups in addition to the Han Chinese majority and a considerable number of unrecognized ethnic groups. (saiita.com.cn)
  • Here we present the draft Chinese pangenome reference based on the first sequencing effort (Phase I) of the CPC, reporting 116 high-quality de novo assemblies from 58 core samples representing 36 minority Chinese ethnic groups and 6 assemblies of the Han Chinese majority. (saiita.com.cn)
  • With segregation strictly in place, the Indian society moved toward endogamy-the practice of avoiding intermarriage or close relationships between ethnic groups-which reached its most extreme form in the creation of the caste system which remains in force to this day. (riazhaq.com)
  • Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peoples of the continent of Asia, the usage of the term "Asian" by the United States Census Bureau only includes people with origins or ancestry from the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent and excludes people with ethnic origins in certain parts of Asia, including West Asia who are now categorized as Middle Eastern Americans. (wikipedia.org)
  • After immigration laws were reformed during the 1940s-1960s, abolishing national origins quotas, Asian immigration increased rapidly. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, since the removal of restrictive "national origins" quotas in 1965, the Asian American population has diversified greatly to include more of the peoples with ancestry from various parts of Asia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most commonly used definition of Asian American is the U.S. Census Bureau definition, which includes all people with origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Changing patterns of immigration and an extensive period of exclusion of Asian immigrants have resulted in demographic changes that have in turn affected the formal and common understandings of what defines Asian American. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, we analyze patterns of variation across 443,434 SNPs genotyped in 3,845 individuals from four continental regions. (blogspot.com)
  • They conducted what they call the "most comprehensive sampling of Indian genetic variation to date," using samples collected from 571 individuals belonging to 73 "well-defined ethno-linguistic groups. (riazhaq.com)
  • The data allowed the authors to trace not just the genetic mixture between these groups but how long ago this mixture occurred. (riazhaq.com)
  • Prior to being included in the "Asian" category in the 1980s, many Americans of South Asian descent usually classified themselves as Caucasian or other. (wikipedia.org)
  • From the figure, it appears that a little bit of "South Asian" appears in Europe, which may represent either a Gypsy element, or the more general "light blue" element which appeared in Li et al . (blogspot.com)
  • These are the clusters, positioned against a South Asian sample. (blogspot.com)
  • Subjects include personal activities, education, South Asia, South Asian community, regional and international affairs and US politics to financial markets. (riazhaq.com)
  • In 2020, Americans who identified as Asian alone (19,886,049) or in combination with other races (4,114,949) made up 7.2% of the U.S. population. (wikipedia.org)
  • Chinese, Indian, and Filipino Americans make up the largest share of the Asian American population with 5 million, 4.3 million, and 4 million people respectively. (wikipedia.org)
  • These numbers equal 23%, 20%, and 18% of the total Asian American population, or 1.5% and 1.2% of the total U.S. population. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "Asian person" in the United States is most often thought of as a person of East Asian descent. (wikipedia.org)
  • In vernacular usage, "Asian" is usually used to refer to those of East Asian descent or anyone else of Asian descent with epicanthic eyefolds. (wikipedia.org)
  • Probably a high-status individual, his Y-chromosome haplotype, R1b1, also characterized the high-status individuals buried under kurgans in later Yamnaya graves in this region, so he could be regarded as a founder of an elite group of patrilineally related families. (blogspot.com)
  • Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). (wikipedia.org)