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Title: | The history of the North African mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 gene flow into the African, Eurasian and American continents | Authors: | Secher, Bernard Fregel, Rosa Larruga, José M. Cabrera, Vicente M. Endicott, Phillip Pestano, Jose J. González, Ana M. |
UNESCO Clasification: | 32 Ciencias médicas 241007 Genética humana 51 Antropología |
Keywords: | Bayesian Coalescent Inference Y-Chromosome Lineages Mtdna Analysis Population Morocco, et al |
Issue Date: | 2014 | Journal: | BMC Evolutionary Biology | Abstract: | Background: Complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome analyses have greatly improved the phylogeny and phylogeography of human mtDNA. Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 has been considered as a molecular signal of a Paleolithic return to North Africa of modern humans from southwestern Asia.Results: Using 230 complete sequences we have refined the U6 phylogeny, and improved the phylogeographic information by the analysis of 761 partial sequences. This approach provides chronological limits for its arrival to Africa, followed by its spreads there according to climatic fluctuations, and its secondary prehistoric and historic migrations out of Africa colonizing Europe, the Canary Islands and the American Continent.Conclusions: The U6 expansions and contractions inside Africa faithfully reflect the climatic fluctuations that occurred in this Continent affecting also the Canary Islands. Mediterranean contacts drove these lineages to Europe, at least since the Neolithic. In turn, the European colonization brought different U6 lineages throughout the American Continent leaving the specific sign of the colonizers origin. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/46958 | ISSN: | 1471-2148 | DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2148-14-109 | Source: | Bmc Evolutionary Biology[ISSN 1471-2148],v. 14 |
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