{"id":278244,"date":"2020-08-11T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=278244"},"modified":"2020-08-11T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T13:03:05","slug":"book-shows-arab-dna-in-the-state-of-ceara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/book-shows-arab-dna-in-the-state-of-ceara\/","title":{"rendered":"Book shows Arab DNA in the state of Cear\u00e1"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 An original research mapped the DNA of the people in the Brazilian state of Cear\u00e1 and revealed that one of their origins is Arab. This is addressed in the book O Cearense Revelado: uma jornada via DNA desvenda nossa ancestralidade <\/em>[The Cearense Revealed: A DNA journey unveils our ancestry], which was launched online last week and devotes a chapter to the Arabs, who have a significant presence in the capital and the Sert\u00e3o central region of the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Arab presence is very strong. Even if it is small in terms of genetic distribution. There is an exponential presence, particularly in Fortaleza. The Arabs have grown a lot,\u201d the book\u2019s author Lu\u00eds S\u00e9rgio Santos said in an interview with ANBA. The research identified that the Arabs make up 1% of the Cear\u00e1\u2019s population and live primarily in the two regions mentioned above.<\/p>\n

But the book does not address just the Arab ancestry of the Cearenses, but all origins of this population. The work is based on a research that identified the population\u2019s ancestry by collecting genetic resources of people from across the state.<\/p>\n

The work is a continuity of the essay \u201cO Cearense\u201d by professor and former governor of the state of Cear\u00e1 Jos\u00e9 Parsifal Barroso, which was published in 1969 and reedited in 2017. Santos is a professor at the Federal University of Cear\u00e1 and journalist and works at the Myra Eliane Institute in Fortaleza, Cear\u00e1, which is chaired by Parsifal\u2019s grandson, Igor Queiroz Barroso.<\/p>\n

After reediting Parsifal\u2019s book, Santos and Barroso decided to invest in a new work that followed up the search for the Cearense\u2019s identity. In the genetic research, they found a way to collect data. In a paper published in the journal Nature<\/em> Santos learned about the GPS method and contacted researcher Eran Elhaik, who had created the GPS algorithm. Elhaik then became an advisor of the Brazilian research for the book. The genetic analysis was carried out in the DDC Lab in Ohio, United States, from samples collected across the state of Cear\u00e1.<\/p>\n

The author explains that 27 genetic pools were found. \u201cSome of these origins are more traceable, such as the Arabs, while other are more diluted. The research is interesting because it shows a migratory flow. In the case of the Arabs, they arrived in Cear\u00e1 without genetic mediation \u2013 they came themselves,\u201d Santos explains about the fact that the Arab genetic load came directly during their migration to Brazil.<\/p>\n

In the genetic pool called \u2018Arabia,\u2019 the author explains that there are genes from Jordan, Egypt, and particularly Lebanon and Syria. \u201cThis is the work that showed the largest number of GPS results in the entire world. The Arabs are concentrated in the metropolitan region of Cear\u00e1 and the Central Sert\u00e3o in Quixad\u00e1. In their chapter, we explain why they went to Quixad\u00e1. The Arabs were travelling salesmen. And Quixad\u00e1 is a distribution hub,\u201d the author explained.<\/p>\n

The researched featured 160 samples collected in the mesoregions of Cear\u00e1. The field work lasted one year. The book is for sale through the Institute\u2019s WhatsApp: +55 (85) 99412-3827.<\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marcos Moura\/Government of Cear\u00e1<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By using the Geographic Population Structure (GPS) method, a research revealed the Arab presence in the Brazilian state of Cear\u00e1. The study was published in the book \u2018The Cearense Revealed: A DNA journey unveils our ancestry.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2324,"featured_media":278243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[9803,9586,6074,14630,2093,16590,16591,9537,16587,16592,16588,16589,3033,14869,9611],"class_list":{"0":"post-278244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-egypt-en","9":"tag-lebanon-en","10":"tag-arab-immigration","11":"tag-arabia-en","12":"tag-book","13":"tag-dna-en","14":"tag-gps-en","15":"tag-jordan-en","16":"tag-o-cearense","17":"tag-o-cearense-en","18":"tag-origem","19":"tag-origin","20":"tag-research","21":"tag-siria-en-2","22":"tag-syria-en"},"wps_subtitle":"By using the Geographic Population Structure (GPS) method, a research revealed the Arab presence in the Brazilian state of Cear\u00e1. The study was published in the book \u2018The Cearense Revealed: A DNA journey unveils our ancestry.\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}