Dating the Arrival of the Bedouin Tribes in Sinai and the Negev

Bailey, Clinton

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“…Historical records indicate that the ancestors of most of the Negev Bedouins migrated from the Arabian Peninsula to southern Israel and Sinai probably before the spread of the Islam around 700 CE (Marx, 1967;Al-Aref, 1934;Abu-Rabia, 1994;Bailey, 1985). These ancient Bedouins formed several clans and established clan territories in the Negev and Sinai deserts.…”

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Deciphering the fine-structure of tribal admixture in the Bedouin population using genomic data

2013

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The Bedouin Israeli population is highly inbred and structured with a very high prevalence of recessive diseases. Many studies in the past two decades focused on linkage analysis in large, multiple consanguineous pedigrees of this population. The advent of high-throughput technologies motivated researchers to search for rare variants shared between smaller pedigrees, integrating data from clinically similar yet seemingly non-related sporadic cases. However, such analyses are challenging because, without pedigree data, there is no prior knowledge regarding possible relatedness between the sporadic cases. Here, we describe models and techniques for the study of relationships between pedigrees and use them for the inference of tribal co-ancestry, delineating the complex social interactions between different tribes in the Negev Bedouins of southern Israel. Through our analysis, we differentiate between tribes that share many yet small genomic segments because of co-ancestry versus tribes that share larger segments because of recent admixture. The emergent pattern is well correlated with the prevalence of rare mutations in the different tribes. Tribes that do not intermarry, mostly because of social restrictions, hold private mutations, whereas tribes that do intermarry demonstrate a genetic flow of mutations between them. Thus, social structure within an inbred community can be delineated through genomic data, with implications to genetic counseling and genetic mapping.

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Deciphering the fine-structure of tribal admixture in the Bedouin population using genomic data

2013

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“…The still lower dates allow us to suggest that these layers were formed from the end of the 18th till the middle of the 20 th century ( Table 1). A big group of Bedouins had come in the Negev desert at the end of 18-19 centuries (Bailey, 1985). The same dynamics of wormwood and plantainrose pollen can be seen in the upper layers of the Bsor deposit (Fig.…”

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The Absolute Chronology of the Zoogenic Deposits From the Negev Desert (Israel)

Babenko

Khassanov

2007

Geochronometria

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Zoogenic deposits are one of the most important sources of the information on the history of arid ecosystems. Different organic materials form the deposit thus offering an opportunity for palaeobotanic analysis as well as for radiocarbon dating. However, many obstacles arise while dating zoogenic deposits. Some layers can be readily dated by radiocarbon as dung layers, but some of them do not contain any organic material preserved. Three zoogenic deposits from the central part of the Negev Desert (Israel) were investigated. Azmaut deposit was accumulated more then 5000 years. This deposit is a key object of this research. The Ramon I deposit was accumulated for the last 8000 years. The observed coincidence of the changes of the deposits and the pollen spectra testifies the presence of common causes driving them. It allows us to compare the spectrum of sufficiently dated Azmaut deposit with that of the poorly dated Bsor one. The bottom layers of the Ramon I deposit were formed 2000 years earlier than that of Azmaut. Combining the results of the pollen analysis and the radiocarbon dating of the three deposits enables us to reconstruct the vegetation history of the region during the last 8000 years.

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“…BA account for almost 20% of the one-million population of the Negev (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics), and almost all Israeli-Arabs living in the Negev are BA. The genetics of BA of the Negev resembles that of the population of the Arabian Peninsula (Nebet et al, 2001) supporting the view that the BA population of the Negev originated in the Arabian Peninsula (Bailey et al, 1980) Numerous hereditary disorders, a few of which are peculiar to the BA population of the Negev have been described (Kenan et al, 2002;Zlotogora et al, 2013), and are related to a high rate of consanguinity in this population (Kenan et al, 2002).…”

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Breast Cancer in Bedouin-Arab Patients in Southern Israel: Epidemiologic and Biologic Features in Comparison with Jewish Patients

Lazarev

Flaschner²,

Geffen³

et al. 2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequent cancer type and the leading cause of death among women in Israel (BaronApel, Israel Center for Disease Control) a. Time-trends in the incidence of BC have been different in Jewish and Israeli-Arab populations. Following a steady rise over a few decades, the incidence of BC in Jews decreased by 3% from 1996 through 2007. In contrast, the incidence of BC in Israeli-Arabs continued to increase by 98% over the same time-period. Age-adjusted incidence rates in Jews and Israeli-Arabs in 2010 reached levels of 91, and of 53 cases per 100,000 per year, respectively (Israel Cancer Registry, Jerusalem).Bedouin-Arabs (BA), who are part of the Israeli-Arab population of Israel, reside in the Negev, a desert and

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Dating the Arrival of the Bedouin Tribes in Sinai and the Negev

Cited by 7 publications

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Deciphering the fine-structure of tribal admixture in the Bedouin population using genomic data

Deciphering the fine-structure of tribal admixture in the Bedouin population using genomic data

The Absolute Chronology of the Zoogenic Deposits From the Negev Desert (Israel)

Breast Cancer in Bedouin-Arab Patients in Southern Israel: Epidemiologic and Biologic Features in Comparison with Jewish Patients

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