The genomic landscape of the Peruvian Andes

Poster presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2019), held on March 27-30th, 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Peruvian Andes was home to multiple major civilization centers of the pre-contact Americas, and contemporary peoples in this region retain a large reservoir of Native American genomic diversity. Although large genomic studies have been conducted in Peru, most data is limited to urban areas or comes from a small number of rural populations. Other studies with more comprehensive sampling are limited to uniparental markers or small subsets of autosomal variants. Here we expand upon these efforts by examining genetic diversity among a large sample of Indigenous or traditional lifestyle communities located in each of the three Peruvian ecozones: the desert Pacific Coast, the Highlands and the Jungle Lowlands. We also include data for two coastal Afro-Peruvian communities.