Tracing European founder lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA pool.
- M. Richards, V. Macaulay, H. Bandelt
- BiologyAmerican Journal of Human Genetics
- 1 November 2000
The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations
- S. Mallick, Heng Li, D. Reich
- BiologyNature
- 7 July 2016
It is demonstrated that indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andamanese do not derive substantial ancestry from an early dispersal of modern humans; instead, their modern human ancestry is consistent with coming from the same source as that of other non-Africans.
Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
- Iosif Lazaridis, N. Patterson, J. Krause
- History, BiologyNature
- 23 December 2013
It is shown that most present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: west European hunter-gatherers, who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; ancient north Eurasians related to Upper Palaeolithic Siberians; and early European farmers, who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harboured west Europeanhunter-gatherer related ancestry.
Beringian Standstill and Spread of Native American Founders
- Erika Tamm, T. Kivisild, R. Malhi
- BiologyPLoS ONE
- 5 September 2007
The newly resolved phylogenetic structure suggests that ancestors of Native Americans paused when they reached Beringia, during which time New World founder lineages differentiated from their Asian sister-clades, and a swift migration southward that distributed the founder types all the way to South America.
Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages
- T. Kivisild, M. Bamshad, R. Villems
- BiologyCurrent Biology
- 18 November 1999
The emerging limbs and twigs of the East Asian mtDNA tree.
- T. Kivisild, H. Tolk, R. Villems
- BiologyMolecular biology and evolution
- 1 October 2002
The phylogenetic backbone of the East Asian mtDNA tree is determined by using published complete mtDNA sequences and assessing both coding and control region variation in 69 Han individuals from southern China, confirming that the East Asia mtDNA pool is locally region-specific and completely covered by the two superhaplogroups M and N.
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.
The genetic heritage of the earliest settlers persists both in Indian tribal and caste populations.
- T. Kivisild, S. Rootsi, R. Villems
- BiologyAmerican Journal of Human Genetics
- 1 February 2003
Results show that Indian tribal and caste populations derive largely from the same genetic heritage of Pleistocene southern and western Asians and have received limited gene flow from external regions since the Holocene.
An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia
- M. Rasmussen, Xiaosen Guo, E. Willerslev
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 7 October 2011
It is shown that Aboriginal Australians are descendants of an early human dispersal into eastern Asia, possibly 62,000 to 75,000 years ago, which is separate from the one that gave rise to modern Asians 25, thousands of years ago.
A "Copernican" reassessment of the human mitochondrial DNA tree from its root.
- D. Behar, M. van Oven, R. Villems
- BiologyAmerican Journal of Human Genetics
- 6 April 2012
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