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The mitogenome portrait of Umbria in Central Italy as depicted by contemporary ...
Modi, A; Lancioni, H; Cardinali, I; Capodiferro, MR; Rambaldi Migliore, N; Hussein, A; Strobl, C; Bodner, M; Schnaller, L; Xavier, C; Rizzi, EUmbria is located in Central Italy and took the name from its ancient inhabitants, the Umbri, whose origins are still debated. Here, we investigated the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation of 545 present-day Umbrians (with 198 entire mitogenomes) and 28 pre-Roman individuals (obtaining 19 ancient mtDNAs) excavated from the necropolis of Plestia. We found a rather homogeneous distribution of western Eurasian lin...
Publisher Correction: Genome-wide analysis of Corsican population reveals a clo...
Tamm, E; Di, Cristofaro, J; Mazières, S; Pennarun, E; Kushniarevich, A; Raveane, A; Semino, O; Chiaroni, J; Pereira, L; Metspalu, M; Montinaro, FCorrection to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49901-8, published online 19 September 2019
Population structure of modern-day Italians reveals patterns of ancient and arc...
Raveane, A; Aneli, S; Montinaro, F; Athanasiadis, G; Barlera, S; Birolo, G; Boncoraglio, G; Di, Blasio, AM; Di, Gaetano, C; Pagani, L; Parolo, SEuropean populations display low genetic differentiation as the result of long-term blending of their ancient founding ancestries. However, it is unclear how the combination of ancient ancestries related to early foragers, Neolithic farmers, and Bronze Age nomadic pastoralists can explain the distribution of genetic variation across Europe. Populations in natural crossroads like the Italian peninsula are expect...
Genome-wide analysis of Corsican population reveals a close affinity with North...
Tamm, E; Cristofaro, JD; Mazières, S; Pennarun, E; Kushniarevich, A; Raveane, A; Semino, O; Chiaroni, J; Pereira, L; Metspalu, M; Montinaro, FDespite being the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean basin, the genetic variation of Corsica has not been explored as exhaustively as Sardinia, which is situated only 11 km South. However, it is likely that the populations of the two islands shared, at least in part, similar demographic histories. Moreover, the relative small size of the Corsica may have caused genetic isolation, which, in turn, might b...
Origin and spread of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7
Sahakyan, H; Kashani, BH; Tamang, R; Kushniarevich, A; Francis, A; Costa, MD; Pathak, AK; Khachatryan, Z; Sharma, I; van Oven, M; Parik, JHuman mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U is among the initial maternal founders in Southwest Asia and Europe and one that best indicates matrilineal genetic continuity between late Pleistocene huntergatherer groups and present-day populations of Europe. While most haplogroup U subclades are older than 30 thousand years, the comparatively recent coalescence time of the extant variation of haplogroup U7 (~16–19 thous...
Mitochondrial DNA signals of Late Glacial recolonization of Europe from Near Ea...
Pala, M; Olivieri, A; Achilli, A; Accetturo, M; Metspalu, E; Reidla, M; Tamm, E; Karmin, M; Reisberg, T; Hooshiar Kashani, B; Perego, UA; Carossa, VHuman populations, along with those of many other species, are thought to have contracted into a number of refuge areas at the height of the last Ice Age. European populations are believed to be, to a large extent, the descendants of the inhabitants of these refugia, and some extant mtDNA lineages can be traced to refugia in Franco-Cantabria (haplogroups H1, H3, V, and U5b1), the Italian Peninsula (U5b3), and t...
Mitochondrial genomes from modern horses reveal the major haplogroups that unde...
Achilli, A; Olivieri, A; Soares, P; Lancioni, H; Kashani, BH; Perego, UA; Nergadze, SG; Carossa, V; Santagostino, M; Capomaccio, S; Felicetti, MArchaeological and genetic evidence concerning the time and mode of wild horse (Equus ferus) domestication is still debated. High levels of genetic diversity in horse mtDNA have been detected when analyzing the control region; recurrent mutations, however, tend to blur the structure of the phylogenetic tree. Here, we brought the horse mtDNA phylogeny to the highest level of molecular resolution by analyzing 83 ...
The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people
Behar, DM; Yunusbayev, B; Metspalu, M; Metspalu, E; Rosset, S; Parik, J; Rootsi, S; Chaubey, G; Kutuev, I; Yudkovsky, G; Khusnutdinova, EKContemporary Jews comprise an aggregate of ethno-religious communities whose worldwide members identify with each other through various shared religious, historical and cultural traditions. Historical evidence suggests common origins in the Middle East, followed by migrations leading to the establishment of communities of Jews in Europe, Africa and Asia, in what is termed the Jewish Diaspora. This complex demog...