▪ Abstract Several unique properties of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), including its
high copy number, maternal inheritance, lack of recombination, and high mutation rate, have …

Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) studies have entered a new phase since the
blossoming of complete genome analyses. Sequencing complete mtDNAs is more …

Human mitochondrial DNA is widely used as tool in many fields including evolutionary
anthropology and population history, medical genetics, genetic genealogy, and forensic …

There is currently no calibration available for the whole human mtDNA genome,
incorporating both coding and control regions. Furthermore, as several authors have pointed …

Native Americans derive from a small number of Asian founders who likely arrived to the
Americas via Beringia. However, additional details about the intial colonization of the …

A recent dispersal of modern humans out of Africa is now widely accepted, but the routes
taken across Eurasia are still disputed. We show that mitochondrial DNA variation in isolated …

It is well accepted that the Americas were the last continents reached by modern humans,
most likely through Beringia. However, the precise time and mode of the colonization of the …

High mutation rate in mammalian mitochondrial DNA generates a highly divergent pool of
alleles even within species that have dispersed and expanded in size recently. Phylogenetic …

Prehistoric Japan underwent rapid transformations in the past 3000 years, first from foraging
to wet rice farming and then to state formation. A long-standing hypothesis posits that …

Because population stratification can cause spurious associations in case-control studies,
understanding the population structure is important. Here, we examined Japanese …