From: Rick McCallister
Message: 52575
Date: 2008-02-10
> Saami and Berbers--an unexpected mitochondrial DNA____________________________________________________________________________________
> link.
>
> Achilli A, Rengo C, Battaglia V, Pala M, Olivieri A,
> Fornarino S, Magri C, Scozzari R, Babudri N,
> Santachiara-Benerecetti AS, Bandelt HJ, Semino O,
> Torroni A.
> Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università
> di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
> 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 approximately
> 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.
> PMID: 15791543 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
>
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