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Achilli, Alessandro, Rengo, Chiara, Battaglia, Vincenza, Pala, Maria, Oliveri, Anna, Fornarino, Simona, Magri, Chiara, Scozzari, Rosaria, Babudri, Nora, Santachiara-Benerecetti, Silvana A., Bandelt, Hans-Jürgen, Semino, Ornella and Torroni, Antonio (2005) Saami and Berbers—An Unexpected Mitochondrial DNA Link. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 76 (5). pp. 883-886. ISSN 0002-9297
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The sequencing of entire human mitochondrial DNAs belonging to haplogroup U reveals that this clade arose shortly after the “out of Africa” exit and rapidly radiated into numerous regionally distinct subclades. Intriguingly, the Saami of Scandinavia and the Berbers of North Africa were found to share an extremely young branch, aged merely ∼9,000 years. This unexpected finding not only confirms that the Franco-Cantabrian refuge area of southwestern Europe was the source of late-glacial expansions of hunter-gatherers that repopulated northern Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum but also reveals a direct maternal link between those European hunter-gatherer populations and the Berbers.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics |
| Schools: | School of Applied Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Cherry Edmunds |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2012 15:38 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2012 15:02 |
| URI: | http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/15498 |
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