Reconstructing Druze population history

“…For 36% of the countries, all the individuals were predicted within these extended boundaries. The average prediction distance from the true borders was 125 km, an improvement compared with previous studies ( Das et al 2016 ; Marshall et al 2016 ). As expected, the accuracy decreased to 78% and 54% in the leave-one-out individual and -subpopulation analyses, respectively.…”

“…Individual clustering by admixture proportions is an effective way to describe population structure ( Marshall et al 2016 ) and evaluate the ascertainment bias and the AIMs choice. An application of the graph-theoretical clustering technique NBR-Clust ( Matta et al 2016 ) to the admixture proportions of the Genographic individuals ( supplementary fig.…”

“…1 , 7 A) 47 . Finally, their dual interpretations of AJs as a mixed population of Middle Eastern origin are based solely on a priori belief: first, because most of the populations in their PCA are nested between and within other populations, yet the authors did not suggest that they are all admixed and second because AJs nested between Adygii and Druze 51 , 52 , both formed in the Near Eastern. The conclusions of Need et al 47 were thereby obtained based on particular PCA schemes and what may be preconceived ideas of AJs origins that are no more real than the Iberian origin of AJs (Fig.…”

“…druzei sp. nov. Interestingly, one of the biogeographic hypotheses on the origin of Druzes says that they might have originated in the Zagros Mountains and the surroundings of Lake Van from where they later migrated south to the mountains of Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon 33 . This represents certain parallelisms with the uncovered phylogenetic relationship between the new species and the sister E .…”

“…Moreover, the first, verified record of the E. quatuorlineata group from the Levant 12 is from the vicinity of a Druze town, Majdal Shams, that is also the type locality of E. druzei sp. nov. Interestingly, one of the biogeographic hypotheses on the origin of Druzes says that they might have originated in the Zagros Mountains and the surroundings of Lake Van from where they later migrated south to the mountains of Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon 33 . This represents certain parallelisms with the uncovered phylogenetic relationship between the new species and the sister E. urartica that has its centre of distribution in eastern Anatolia, with the type locality near to Lake Van 25 .…”

“…For 36% of the countries, all the individuals were predicted within these extended boundaries. The average prediction distance from the true borders was 125 km, an improvement compared with previous studies ( Das et al 2016 ; Marshall et al 2016 ). As expected, the accuracy decreased to 78% and 54% in the leave-one-out individual and -subpopulation analyses, respectively.…”

“…Individual clustering by admixture proportions is an effective way to describe population structure ( Marshall et al 2016 ) and evaluate the ascertainment bias and the AIMs choice. An application of the graph-theoretical clustering technique NBR-Clust ( Matta et al 2016 ) to the admixture proportions of the Genographic individuals ( supplementary fig.…”

“…1 , 7 A) 47 . Finally, their dual interpretations of AJs as a mixed population of Middle Eastern origin are based solely on a priori belief: first, because most of the populations in their PCA are nested between and within other populations, yet the authors did not suggest that they are all admixed and second because AJs nested between Adygii and Druze 51 , 52 , both formed in the Near Eastern. The conclusions of Need et al 47 were thereby obtained based on particular PCA schemes and what may be preconceived ideas of AJs origins that are no more real than the Iberian origin of AJs (Fig.…”

“…druzei sp. nov. Interestingly, one of the biogeographic hypotheses on the origin of Druzes says that they might have originated in the Zagros Mountains and the surroundings of Lake Van from where they later migrated south to the mountains of Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon 33 . This represents certain parallelisms with the uncovered phylogenetic relationship between the new species and the sister E .…”

“…Moreover, the first, verified record of the E. quatuorlineata group from the Levant 12 is from the vicinity of a Druze town, Majdal Shams, that is also the type locality of E. druzei sp. nov. Interestingly, one of the biogeographic hypotheses on the origin of Druzes says that they might have originated in the Zagros Mountains and the surroundings of Lake Van from where they later migrated south to the mountains of Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon 33 . This represents certain parallelisms with the uncovered phylogenetic relationship between the new species and the sister E. urartica that has its centre of distribution in eastern Anatolia, with the type locality near to Lake Van 25 .…”

“…For 36% of the countries, all the individuals were predicted within these extended boundaries. The average prediction distance from the true borders was 125 km, an improvement compared with previous studies ( Das et al 2016 ; Marshall et al 2016 ). As expected, the accuracy decreased to 78% and 54% in the leave-one-out individual and -subpopulation analyses, respectively.…”

“…Individual clustering by admixture proportions is an effective way to describe population structure ( Marshall et al 2016 ) and evaluate the ascertainment bias and the AIMs choice. An application of the graph-theoretical clustering technique NBR-Clust ( Matta et al 2016 ) to the admixture proportions of the Genographic individuals ( supplementary fig.…”

“…1 , 7 A) 47 . Finally, their dual interpretations of AJs as a mixed population of Middle Eastern origin are based solely on a priori belief: first, because most of the populations in their PCA are nested between and within other populations, yet the authors did not suggest that they are all admixed and second because AJs nested between Adygii and Druze 51 , 52 , both formed in the Near Eastern. The conclusions of Need et al 47 were thereby obtained based on particular PCA schemes and what may be preconceived ideas of AJs origins that are no more real than the Iberian origin of AJs (Fig.…”

“…druzei sp. nov. Interestingly, one of the biogeographic hypotheses on the origin of Druzes says that they might have originated in the Zagros Mountains and the surroundings of Lake Van from where they later migrated south to the mountains of Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon 33 . This represents certain parallelisms with the uncovered phylogenetic relationship between the new species and the sister E .…”

“…Moreover, the first, verified record of the E. quatuorlineata group from the Levant 12 is from the vicinity of a Druze town, Majdal Shams, that is also the type locality of E. druzei sp. nov. Interestingly, one of the biogeographic hypotheses on the origin of Druzes says that they might have originated in the Zagros Mountains and the surroundings of Lake Van from where they later migrated south to the mountains of Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon 33 . This represents certain parallelisms with the uncovered phylogenetic relationship between the new species and the sister E. urartica that has its centre of distribution in eastern Anatolia, with the type locality near to Lake Van 25 .…”