HLA in Las Alpujarras Mts., South-East Spain: A Renaissance process of population artificial substitution

Spain was invaded in 711 CE by mostly Berber North Africans carrying Muslim religion to a mostly Christian/Catholic Kingdom. A fight to expel Muslims soon started and were apparently driven out of Iberia (Spain) starting in 1492 CE. However, many of these expelled people were of Iberian old ancestry...

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Autores: Arnaiz Villena, Antonio, Longas, Javier, Rodríguez Sainz, Carmen, Gómez Casado, Eduardo, Palacio Grüber, José Manuel de, Luna Gómez, Francisco, Moral, Pedro del, Suarez Trujillo, Fabio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/71482
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71482
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:HLA
Alpujarras
Spaniards
Berbers
Arabs
Repopulation
Muslim
invasion
expulsion
Genética médica
Biología
Genética
Historia medieval
2410.07 Genética Humana
24 Ciencias de la Vida
2409 Genética
5504.03 Historia Medieval
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Sumario:Spain was invaded in 711 CE by mostly Berber North Africans carrying Muslim religion to a mostly Christian/Catholic Kingdom. A fight to expel Muslims soon started and were apparently driven out of Iberia (Spain) starting in 1492 CE. However, many of these expelled people were of Iberian old ancestry that had become Muslims at Las Alpujarras Mts. (South-East Spain). Also, Muslim North Africans converted to Christianity either remained there or came back after they more definetively were expelled by 1609 CE. Las Alpujarras region was also repopulated by northern Spaniards mostly from Galicia. Our HLA study of present day Alpujarrans shows that typical North Spain and European Atlantic façade HLA extended haplotypes are very frequent in nowadays Las Alpujarras region, i. e.: HLA-(A*29-B*44)-DRB1*07:01-DQA1*02:01-DQB1*02:01 and (A*02-B*27)-DRB1*15:01-DQA1*01:02-DQB1*06:02. It is concluded that repopulation had a noticeable success even in today Alpujarran population.