African human mtDNA phylogeography at-a-glance

A Rosa, A Brehm - Journal of anthropological sciences= Rivista di …, 2011 - digituma.uma.pt
The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genetic system has long proven to be useful for studying
the demographic history of our species, since their proposed Southeast/East African origin …

The first modern human dispersals across Africa

T Rito, MB Richards, V Fernandes, F Alshamali… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The emergence of more refined chronologies for climate change and archaeology in
prehistoric Africa, and for the evolution of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), now make it …

Variations in hypertension awareness, treatment, and control among Ghanaian migrants living in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and nonmigrant Ghanaians living in …

C Agyemang, G Nyaaba, E Beune, K Meeks… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Hypertension is a major burden among African migrants, but the extent of the
differences in prevalence, treatment, and control among similar African migrants and …

Y-chromosome and mtDNA genetics reveal significant contrasts in affinities of modern Middle Eastern populations with European and African populations

DA Badro, B Douaihy, M Haber, SC Youhanna… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Middle East was a funnel of human expansion out of Africa, a staging area for the
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, and the home to some of the earliest world empires. Post …

The trans-Saharan slave trade-clues from interpolation analyses and high-resolution characterization of mitochondrial DNA lineages

N Harich, MD Costa, V Fernandes, M Kandil… - BMC evolutionary …, 2010 - Springer
Background A proportion of 1/4 to 1/2 of North African female pool is made of typical sub-
Saharan lineages, in higher frequencies as geographic proximity to sub-Saharan Africa …

Uniparental markers of contemporary Italian population reveals details on its pre-Roman heritage

F Brisighelli, V Alvarez-Iglesias, M Fondevila… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background According to archaeological records and historical documentation, Italy has
been a melting point for populations of different geographical and ethnic matrices. Although …

African mitochondrial haplogroup L7: a 100,000-year-old maternal human lineage discovered through reassessment and new sequencing

PA Maier, G Runfeldt, RJ Estes, MG Vilar - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Archaeological and genomic evidence suggest that modern Homo sapiens have roamed the
planet for some 300–500 thousand years. In contrast, global human mitochondrial (mtDNA) …

Sahelian pastoralism from the perspective of variants associated with lactase persistence

E Priehodová, F Austerlitz, M Čížková… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Archeological evidence shows that first nomadic pastoralists came to the African
Sahel from northeastern Sahara, where milking is reported by~ 7.5 ka. A second wave of …

Mitochondrial DNA structure in North Africa reveals a genetic discontinuity in the Nile Valley

K Fadhlaoui‐Zid, L Rodríguez‐Botigué… - American journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Human population movements in North Africa have been mostly restricted to an east‐west
direction due to the geographical barriers imposed by the Sahara Desert and the …

Mitochondrial haplogroup H1 in North Africa: an early Holocene arrival from Iberia

C Ottoni, G Primativo, B Hooshiar Kashani, A Achilli… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The Tuareg of the Fezzan region (Libya) are characterized by an extremely high frequency
(61%) of haplogroup H1, a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup that is common in all …