Population genetics, history, and health patterns in Native Americans

CJ Mulligan, K Hunley, S Cole… - Annu. Rev. Genomics …, 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Over the past two decades, detailed studies of mitochondrial DNA and the Y
chromosome have increased our understanding of the history and population genetics of …

Generating population data for the EMPOP database—an overview of the mtDNA sequencing and data evaluation processes considering 273 Austrian control region …

A Brandstätter, H Niederstätter, M Pavlic… - Forensic science …, 2007 - Elsevier
The European DNA profiling group (EDNAP) mtDNA population database (EMPOP) is an
international collaborative project between DNA laboratories performing mtDNA analysis …

Phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial DNA in northern Asian populations

M Derenko, B Malyarchuk, T Grzybowski… - The American Journal of …, 2007 - cell.com
To elucidate the human colonization process of northern Asia and human dispersals to the
Americas, a diverse subset of 71 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages was chosen for …

The mtDNA legacy of the Levantine early Upper Palaeolithic in Africa

A Olivieri, A Achilli, M Pala, V Battaglia, S Fornarino… - Science, 2006 - science.org
Sequencing of 81 entire human mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) belonging to haplogroups
M1 and U6 reveals that these predominantly North African clades arose in southwestern …

The western and eastern roots of the Saami—the story of genetic “outliers” told by mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes

K Tambets, S Rootsi, T Kivisild, P Serk… - The American Journal of …, 2004 - cell.com
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 …

Mitochondrial DNA diversity in indigenous populations of the southern extent of Siberia, and the origins of Native American haplogroups

EB Starikovskaya, RI Sukernik… - Annals of human …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In search of the ancestors of Native American mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups, we
analyzed the mtDNA of 531 individuals from nine indigenous populations in Siberia. All …

Mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome variation provides evidence for a recent common ancestry between Native Americans and Indigenous Altaians

MC Dulik, SI Zhadanov, LP Osipova, A Askapuli… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
The Altai region of southern Siberia has played a critical role in the peopling of northern Asia
as an entry point into Siberia and a possible homeland for ancestral Native Americans. It has …

Origin and expansion of haplogroup H, the dominant human mitochondrial DNA lineage in West Eurasia: the Near Eastern and Caucasian perspective

U Roostalu, I Kutuev, EL Loogväli… - Molecular biology …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Disuniting uniformity: a pied cladistic canvas of mtDNA haplogroup H in Eurasia

EL Loogväli, U Roostalu… - Molecular biology …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Origin and post-glacial dispersal of mitochondrial DNA haplogroups C and D in northern Asia

M Derenko, B Malyarchuk, T Grzybowski, G Denisova… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
More than a half of the northern Asian pool of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is
fragmented into a number of subclades of haplogroups C and D, two of the most frequent …