The southwestern and Central Asian corridor has played a pivotal role in the history of
humankind, witnessing numerous waves of migration of different peoples at different times …

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 …

Background Recent advances in the understanding of the maternal and paternal heritage of
south and southwest Asian populations have highlighted their role in the colonization of …

The Saami are regarded as extreme genetic outliers among European populations. In this
study, a high-resolution phylogenetic analysis of Saami genetic heritage was undertaken in …

More than a third of the European pool of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is fragmented
into a number of subclades of haplogroup (hg) H, the most frequent hg throughout western …

It has been often stated that the overall pattern of human maternal lineages in Europe is
largely uniform. Yet this uniformity may also result from an insufficient depth and width of the …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence variation was examined in Poles (from the
Pomerania-Kujawy region; n= 436) and Russians (from three different regions of the …

Analyses of mtDNA and Y-chromosome variation were performed in a sample of Iraqis, a
scarcely investigated population of the “Fertile Crescent.” A total of 216 mtDNAs were …

Background Genetic studies of the Arabian Peninsula are scarce even though the region
was the center of ancient trade routes and empires and may have been the southern …

To resolve the phylogeny of certain mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups in eastern
Europe and estimate their evolutionary age, a total of 73 samples representing …