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The dawn of human matrilineal diversity
Behar, DM; Villems, R; Soodyall, H; Blue-Smith, J; Pereira, L; Metspalu, E; Scozzari, R; Makkan, H; Tzur, S; Comas, D; Bertranpetit, JThe quest to explain demographic history during the early part of human evolution has been limited because of the scarce paleoanthropological record from the Middle Stone Age. To shed light on the structure of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) phylogeny at the dawn of Homo sapiens, we constructed a matrilineal tree composed of 624 complete mtDNA genomes from sub-Saharan Hg L lineages. We paid particular attention t...
Phylogeography of the human mitochondrial haplogroup L3e: a snapshot of African...
Bandelt, H-J; Alves-Silva, J; Guimarães, PEM; Santos, MS; Brehm, A; Pereira, L; Coppa, A; Larruga, JM; Rengo, C; Scozzari, R; Torroni, A; Prata, MJThe mtDNA haplogroup L3e, which is identified by the restriction site +2349 MboI within the Afro-Eurasian superhaplogroup L3 (-3592 HpaI), is omnipresent in Africa but virtually absent in Eurasia (except for neighbouring areas with limited genetic exchange). L3e was hitherto poorly characterised in terms of HVS-I motifs, as the ancestral HVS-I type of L3e cannot be distinguished from the putative HVS-I ancestor...
Prehistoric and historic traces in the mtDNA of Mozambique: insights into the B...
Pereira, L; Macaulay, V; Torroni, A; Scozzari, R; Prata, MJ; Amorim, AA sample of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the southeastern African population of Mozambique has been shown to have affinities with populations both to its north and south. From the north came sequences that may have been involved in the Bantu expansion (from western, through eastern, to southern Africa), such as members of haplogroups L3b, L3e1a and a subset of L1a. The dating of the major component of Mozambi...