Tracing European founder lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA pool.
- M. Richards, V. Macaulay, H. Bandelt
- BiologyAmerican Journal of Human Genetics
- 1 November 2000
Evidence for two independent domestications of cattle.
- R. Loftus, D. MacHugh, D. Bradley, P. Sharp, P. Cunningham
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 29 March 1994
Application of a molecular clock suggests that the two major mtDNA clades diverged at least 200,000, and possibly as much as 1 million, years ago, as evidence for two separate domestication events of different subspecies of the aurochs, Bos primigenius and Bos taurus.
Genetic evidence for Near-Eastern origins of European cattle
- C. S. Troy, D. MacHugh, D. Bradley
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 26 April 2001
The limited ranges of the wild progenitors of many of the primary European domestic species point to their origins further east in Anatolia or the fertile crescent. The wild ox (Bos primigenius),…
Microsatellite DNA variation and the evolution, domestication and phylogeography of taurine and zebu cattle (Bos taurus and Bos indicus).
- D. MacHugh, M. Shriver, R. Loftus, P. Cunningham, D. Bradley
- Biology, MedicineGenetics
- 1 July 1997
The introgression of zebu-specific alleles in African cattle afforded a high resolution perspective on the hybrid nature of African cattle populations and also suggested that certain West African populations of valuable disease-tolerant taurine cattle are under threat of genetic absorption by migrating zebe herds.
Runs of homozygosity and population history in cattle
- D. Purfield, D. Berry, S. McParland, D. Bradley
- BiologyBMC Genetics
- 14 August 2012
High density bi-allelic SNPs in a range of cattle breed samples are used to correlate ROH with the pedigree-based inbreeding coefficients and to validate subsequent analyses using 54,001 SNP genotypes to suggest variations in breed origins and recent management.
Y-chromosomal diversity in Europe is clinal and influenced primarily by geography, rather than by language.
- Z. Rosser, T. Zerjal, M. Jobling
- BiologyAmerican Journal of Human Genetics
- 1 December 2000
These patterns retain a strong signal of expansion from the Near East but also suggest that the demographic history of Europe has been complex and influenced by other major population movements, as well as by linguistic and geographic heterogeneities and the effects of drift.
DNA markers reveal the complexity of livestock domestication
- M. Bruford, D. Bradley, G. Luikart
- BiologyNature reviews genetics
- 1 November 2003
By comparing mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences of modern breeds with their potential wild and domestic ancestors, new insights are gained into the timing and location of domestication events that produced the farm animals of today.
Genetic evidence for the convergent evolution of light skin in Europeans and East Asians.
- H. Norton, R. Kittles, M. Shriver
- BiologyMolecular biology and evolution
- 20 December 2006
A case for the recent convergent evolution of a lighter pigmentation phenotype in Europeans and East Asians is supported by the testing for the presence of positive directional selection in 6 pigmentation genes using an empirical F(ST) approach and a role for MATP in determining normal skin pigmentation variation using admixture mapping methods.
Mitochondrial diversity and the origins of African and European cattle.
- D. Bradley, D. MacHugh, P. Cunningham, R. Loftus
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 14 May 1996
The nature of domestic cattle origins in Africa are unclear as archaeological data are relatively sparse. The earliest domesticates were humpless, or Bos taurus, in morphology and may have shared a…
African Pastoralism: Genetic Imprints of Origins and Migrations
- O. Hanotte, D. Bradley, J. Ochieng, Y. Verjee, E. Hill, J. Rege
- HistoryScience
- 12 April 2002
The genetic signatures of its origins, secondary movements, and differentiation through the study of 15 microsatellite loci in 50 indigenous cattle breeds spanning the present cattle distribution in Africa reveal a major entry point through the Horn and the East Coast of Africa and two modes of introgression into the continent.
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