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Ahlawat B, Kumar L, Cherian PJ, Sehrawat JS, Rai N, Thangaraj K. Deciphering the West Eurasian Genetic Footprints in Ancient South India. Genes (Basel) 2023; 14:genes14050963. [PMID: 37239323 DOI: 10.3390/genes14050963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2023] [Revised: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Since 2006, Pattanam coastal village of the Ernakulam District in Kerala, India, has witnessed multi-disciplinary archaeological investigations in collaboration with leading research institutions across the world. The results confirm that the Pattanam site could be an integral part of the lost ancient port of Muziris, which, as per the material evidence from Pattanam and its contemporary sites, played an important role in the transoceanic exchanges between 100 BCE (Before Common Era) and 300 CE (Common Era). So far, the material evidence with direct provenance to the maritime exchanges related to ancient cultures of the Mediterranean, West Asian, Red Sea, African, and Asian regions have been identified at Pattanam. However, the genetic evidence supporting the impact of multiple cultures or their admixing is still missing for this important archaeological site of South India. Hence, in the current study, we tried to infer the genetic composition of the skeletal remains excavated from the site in a broader context of South Asian and worldwide maternal affinity. We applied the MassArray-based genotyping approach of mitochondrial makers and observed that ancient samples of Pattanam represent a mixed maternal ancestry pattern of both the West Eurasian ancestry and the South Asian ancestry. We observed a high frequency of West Eurasian haplogroups (T, JT, and HV) and South Asian-specific mitochondrial haplogroups (M2a, M3a, R5, and M6). The findings are consistent with the previously published and ongoing archaeological excavations, in which material remains from over three dozen of sites across the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Mediterranean littoral regions have been unearthed. This study confirms that people belonging to multiple cultural and linguistic backgrounds have migrated, probably settled, and eventually died on the South-western coast of India.
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- Bhavna Ahlawat
- Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow 226007, India
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- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow 226007, India
- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, India
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- PAMA Institute for the Advancement of Transdisciplinary Archaeological Sciences, Pattanam Archaeological Site, Ernakulam 683522, India
- Kerala Council for Historical Research & Director Pattanam Excavations, Thiruvananthapuram 695003, India
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- Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow 226007, India
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, India
- Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Uppal, Hyderabad 500007, India
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Askapuli A, Vilar M, Garcia-Ortiz H, Zhabagin M, Sabitov Z, Akilzhanova A, Ramanculov E, Schamiloglu U, Martinez-Hernandez A, Contreras-Cubas C, Barajas-Olmos F, Schurr TG, Zhumadilov Z, Flores-Huacuja M, Orozco L, Hawks J, Saitou N. Kazak mitochondrial genomes provide insights into the human population history of Central Eurasia. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0277771. [PMID: 36445929 PMCID: PMC9707748 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
As a historical nomadic group in Central Asia, Kazaks have mainly inhabited the steppe zone from the Altay Mountains in the East to the Caspian Sea in the West. Fine scale characterization of the genetic profile and population structure of Kazaks would be invaluable for understanding their population history and modeling prehistoric human expansions across the Eurasian steppes. With this mind, we characterized the maternal lineages of 200 Kazaks from Jetisuu at mitochondrial genome level. Our results reveal that Jetisuu Kazaks have unique mtDNA haplotypes including those belonging to the basal branches of both West Eurasian (R0, H, HV) and East Eurasian (A, B, C, D) lineages. The great diversity observed in their maternal lineages may reflect pivotal geographic location of Kazaks in Eurasia and implies a complex history for this population. Comparative analyses of mitochondrial genomes of human populations in Central Eurasia reveal a common maternal genetic ancestry for Turko-Mongolian speakers and their expansion being responsible for the presence of East Eurasian maternal lineages in Central Eurasia. Our analyses further indicate maternal genetic affinity between the Sherpas from the Tibetan Plateau with the Turko-Mongolian speakers.
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- Ayken Askapuli
- School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- National Center for Biotechnology, Astana, Kazakhstan
- National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
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- Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico
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- School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- National Center for Biotechnology, Astana, Kazakhstan
- National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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- National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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- School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- National Center for Biotechnology, Astana, Kazakhstan
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- School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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- Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
- School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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- Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Population Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Advanced Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa Ken, Japan
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Malyarchuk B, Skonieczna K, Duleba A, Derenko M, Malyarchuk A, Grzybowski T. Mitogenomic diversity in Czechs and Slovaks. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2022; 59:102714. [PMID: 35468348 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2022.102714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2022] [Revised: 04/17/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Boris Malyarchuk
- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan 685000, Russian Federation.
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Collegium Medicum of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz 85-094, Poland
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Collegium Medicum of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz 85-094, Poland
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan 685000, Russian Federation
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- Center for Genetics and Genetic Technologies, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234, Russian Federation
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Collegium Medicum of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz 85-094, Poland
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Xin Y, Jia R, Zhang S, Guo F. Mitochondrial genome sequencing with short overlapping amplicons on MiSeq FGx system. Forensic Sci Res 2021; 7:142-153. [PMID: 35784421 PMCID: PMC9246037 DOI: 10.1080/20961790.2021.1963514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Revised: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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With the development and maturation of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) technology, the mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequencing is increasingly applied in the forensic field. In this study, we employed the strategy of short overlapping amplicons for the whole mitogenome, library preparation with tagmentation using the Nextera® XT DNA Library Preparation Kit, sequencing on the MiSeq FGxTM Forensic Genomics System and analyzing data using the mitochondrial(mtDNA) MSR Plug-in and the mtDNA Variant Analyzer. A total of 27 libraries and 56 libraries were sequenced in a run using MiSeq Reagent Kit v2 and v3, respectively. Results showed more than 1800 × of averaged depth of coverage (DoC) at each position. Concordant haplotypes of 9947 A and 2800 M were obtained at 32 variants. Cross-reactivity was observed with 1 ng primate DNA and 10 ng non-primate DNA but could be easily distinguished. Full and accurate variants were obtained from at least 50 pg input DNA and from minor contributors between 19:1 and 1:19 mixed ratios with known reference profiles. More than 86% variants were detected from ≥200-bp degraded samples but its haplotype was assigned to more ancestral haplogroup. Further, a total of 3 962 variants were observed at 613 nucleotide positions from 103 Xibe mitogenomes with 25:1 ratio of transitions to transversions. Two new transversions (C13735A and A14755C) and two tri-alleles at nps 9824 and 16092 were identified. There were 103 unique mitogenome haplotypes from 103 Chinese Xibe that were assigned to 79 haplogroups. Haplogroup D was the preponderant top-level haplogroup in Xibe followed by F, B, M, A, N, G, C, Z, Y, HV and J. Random match probability (RMP) and haplotype diversity (HD) of the whole mitogenome was calculated as 0.0097 and 1.0000, respectively. Compared with HVS-I only, RMP decreased 33.56%, while the number of haplotypes and HD increased 15.73% and 0.49%, respectively. Principal component analysis (PCA) showed that Xibe was clustered to East and Southeast Asian. As a whole, this MPS strategy is suitable for the whole mitogenome sequencing especially for degraded samples and can facilitate generating mitogenome data to support the routine application in forensic sciences. EMP00726 is the first whole mitogenome dataset from Xibe contributed to the EMPOP. Supplemental data for this article are available online at.
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- Yang Xin
- Forensic Science College, Criminal Investigation Police University of China, Shenyang, China
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- Forensic Science College, Criminal Investigation Police University of China, Shenyang, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Shanghai Forensic Service Platform, Academy of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Forensic Medicine, Shanghai Forensic Service Platform, Academy of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, Shanghai, China
- Forensic Science College, Criminal Investigation Police University of China, Shenyang, China
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Mitogenomics of modern Mongolic-speaking populations. Mol Genet Genomics 2021; 297:47-62. [PMID: 34757478 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-021-01830-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/27/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Here, we present a comprehensive data set of 489 complete mitogenomes (211 of which are new) from four Mongolic-speaking populations (Mongols, Barghuts, Khamnigans, and Buryats) to investigate their matrilineal genetic structure, ancestry and relationship with other ethnic groups. We show that along with very high levels of genetic diversity and lack of genetic differentiation, Mongolic-speaking populations exhibit strong genetic resemblance to East Asian populations of Chinese, Japanese, and Uyghurs. Phylogeographic analysis of complete mitogenomes reveals the presence of different components in the gene pools of modern Mongolic-speaking populations-the main East Eurasian component is represented by mtDNA lineages of East Asian, Siberian and autochthonous (the Baikal region/Mongolian) ancestry, whereas the less pronounced West Eurasian component can be ascribed to Europe and West Asia/Caucasus. We also observed that up to one third of the mtDNA subhaplogroups identified in Mongolic-speaking populations can be considered as Mongolic-specific with the coalescence age of most of them not exceeding 1.7 kya. This coincides well with the population size growth which started around 1.1 kya and is detectable only in the Bayesian Skyline Plot constructed based on Mongolic-specific mitogenomes. Our data suggest that the genetic structure established during the Mongol empire is still retained in present-day Mongolic-speaking populations.
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Grochowalski Ł, Jarczak J, Urbanowicz M, Słomka M, Szargut M, Borówka P, Sobalska-Kwapis M, Marciniak B, Ossowski A, Lorkiewicz W, Strapagiel D. Y-Chromosome Genetic Analysis of Modern Polish Population. Front Genet 2020; 11:567309. [PMID: 33193657 PMCID: PMC7644898 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.567309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
The study presents a full analysis of the Y-chromosome variability of the modern male Polish population. It is the first study of the Polish population to be conducted with such a large set of data (2,705 individuals), which includes genetic information from inhabitants of all voivodeships, i.e., the first administrative level, in the country and the vast majority of its counties, i.e., the second level. In addition, the available data were divided into clusters corresponding to more natural geographic regions. Genetic analysis included the estimation of FST distances, the visualization with the use of multidimensional scaling plots and analysis of molecular variance. Y-chromosome binary haplogroups were classified and visualized with the use of interpolation maps. Results showed that the level of differentiation within Polish population is quite low, but some differences were indicated. It was confirmed that the Polish population is characterized by a high degree of homogeneity, with only slight genetic differences being observed at the regional level. The use of regional clustering as an alternative to counties and voivodeships provided a more detailed view of the genetic structure of the population. Those regional differences identified in the present study highlighted the need for additional division of the population by cultural and ethnic criteria in such studies rather than just by geographical or administrative regionalization.
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- Łukasz Grochowalski
- Biobank Lab, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Biobank Lab, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland.,BBMRI.pl Consortium, Łódź, Poland
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- Biobank Lab, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Biobank Lab, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland.,BBMRI.pl Consortium, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Forensic Genetics, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.,The Polish Genetic Database of Totalitarianism Victims, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Biobank Lab, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland.,BBMRI.pl Consortium, Łódź, Poland
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- Biobank Lab, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland.,BBMRI.pl Consortium, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Forensic Genetics, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.,The Polish Genetic Database of Totalitarianism Victims, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Biobank Lab, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland.,BBMRI.pl Consortium, Łódź, Poland
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García-Fernández C, Font-Porterias N, Kučinskas V, Sukarova-Stefanovska E, Pamjav H, Makukh H, Dobon B, Bertranpetit J, Netea MG, Calafell F, Comas D. Sex-biased patterns shaped the genetic history of Roma. Sci Rep 2020; 10:14464. [PMID: 32879340 PMCID: PMC7468237 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-71066-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
The Roma population is a European ethnic minority characterized by recent and multiple dispersals and founder effects. After their origin in South Asia around 1,500 years ago, they migrated West. In Europe, they diverged into ethnolinguistically distinct migrant groups that spread across the continent. Previous genetic studies based on genome-wide data and uniparental markers detected Roma founder events and West-Eurasian gene flow. However, to the best of our knowledge, it has not been assessed whether these demographic processes have equally affected both sexes in the population. The present study uses the largest and most comprehensive dataset of complete mitochondrial and Y chromosome Roma sequences to unravel the sex-biased patterns that have shaped their genetic history. The results show that the Roma maternal genetic pool carries a higher lineage diversity from South Asia, as opposed to a single paternal South Asian lineage. Nonetheless, the European gene flow events mainly occurred through the maternal lineages; however, a signal of this gene flow is also traceable in the paternal lineages. We also detect a higher female migration rate among European Roma groups. Altogether, these results suggest that sociocultural factors influenced the emergence of sex-biased genetic patterns at global and local scales in the Roma population through time.
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- C García-Fernández
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Human and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Biomedical Science Institute, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Research Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology "Georgi D. Efremov", Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of North Macedonia - MASA, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
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- Institute of Forensic Genetics, Hungarian Institute for Forensic Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Hereditary Pathology, Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences, Lviv, Ukraine
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova, Craiova, Romania.,Department for Genomics and Immunoregulation, Life and Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES), University of Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
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Davidovic S, Malyarchuk B, Grzybowski T, Aleksic JM, Derenko M, Litvinov A, Rogalla-Ładniak U, Stevanovic M, Kovacevic-Grujicic N. Complete mitogenome data for the Serbian population: the contribution to high-quality forensic databases. Int J Legal Med 2020; 134:1581-1590. [PMID: 32504149 DOI: 10.1007/s00414-020-02324-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2019] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) is a valuable resource in resolving various human forensic casework. The usage of variability of complete mtDNA genomes increases their discriminatory power to the maximum and enables ultimate resolution of distinct maternal lineages. However, their wider employment in forensic casework is nowadays limited by the lack of appropriate reference database. In order to fill in the gap in the reference data, which, considering Slavic-speaking populations, currently comprises only mitogenomes of East and West Slavs, we present mitogenome data for 226 Serbians, representatives of South Slavs from the Balkan Peninsula. We found 143 (sub)haplogroups among which West Eurasian ones were dominant. The percentage of unique haplotypes was 85%, and the random match probability was as low as 0.53%. We support previous findings on both high levels of genetic diversity in the Serbian population and patterns of genetic differentiation among this and ten studied European populations. However, our high-resolution data supported more pronounced genetic differentiation among Serbians and two Slavic populations (Russians and Poles) as well as expansion of the Serbian population after the Last Glacial Maximum and during the Migration period (fourth to ninth century A.D.), as inferred from the Bayesian skyline analysis. Phylogenetic analysis of haplotypes found in Serbians contributed towards the improvement of the worldwide mtDNA phylogeny, which is essential for the interpretation of the mtDNA casework.
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- Slobodan Davidovic
- Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, PO Box 23, Vojvode Stepe 444a, Belgrade, 11010, Serbia.,Department of Genetics of Populations and Ecogenotoxicology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", National Institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Bulevar despota Stefana 142, Belgrade, 11060, Serbia
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya 18, Magadan, 685000, Russia
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Division of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Faculty of Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Marii-Sklodowskiej-Curie Str. 9, 85-094, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, PO Box 23, Vojvode Stepe 444a, Belgrade, 11010, Serbia
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya 18, Magadan, 685000, Russia
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya 18, Magadan, 685000, Russia
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Division of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Faculty of Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Marii-Sklodowskiej-Curie Str. 9, 85-094, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, PO Box 23, Vojvode Stepe 444a, Belgrade, 11010, Serbia.,Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski Trg 16, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia.,Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Kneza Mihaila 35, Belgrade, 11000, Serbia
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- Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, PO Box 23, Vojvode Stepe 444a, Belgrade, 11010, Serbia.
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Malyarchuk BA, Litvinov AN, Derenko MV. Structure and Forming of Mitochondrial Gene Pool of Russian Population of Eastern Europe. RUSS J GENET+ 2019. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795419050107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mitochondrial DNA variability of the Polish population. Eur J Hum Genet 2019; 27:1304-1314. [PMID: 30903113 PMCID: PMC6777467 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-019-0381-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2018] [Revised: 03/04/2019] [Accepted: 03/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The aim of the present study was to define the mtDNA variability of Polish population and to visualize the genetic relations between Poles. For the first time, the study of Polish population was conducted on such a large number of individuals (5852) representing administrative units of both levels of local administration in Poland (voivodeships and counties). Additionally, clustering was used as a method of population subdivision. Performed genetic analysis, included FST, MDS plot, AMOVA and SAMOVA. Haplogroups were classified and their geographical distribution was visualized using surface interpolation maps. Results of the present study showed that Poles are characterized by the main West Eurasian mtDNA haplogroups. Furthermore, the level of differentiation within the Polish population was quite low but the existing genetic differences could be explained well with geographic distances. This may lead to a conclusion that Poles can be considered as genetically homogenous but with slight differences, highlighted at the regional level. Some patterns of variability were observed and could be explained by the history of demographic processes in Poland such as resettlements and migrations of women or relatively weaker urbanisation and higher rural population retention of some regions.
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Zhernakova DV, Brukhin V, Malov S, Oleksyk TK, Koepfli KP, Zhuk A, Dobrynin P, Kliver S, Cherkasov N, Tamazian G, Rotkevich M, Krasheninnikova K, Evsyukov I, Sidorov S, Gorbunova A, Chernyaeva E, Shevchenko A, Kolchanova S, Komissarov A, Simonov S, Antonik A, Logachev A, Polev DE, Pavlova OA, Glotov AS, Ulantsev V, Noskova E, Davydova TK, Sivtseva TM, Limborska S, Balanovsky O, Osakovsky V, Novozhilov A, Puzyrev V, O'Brien SJ. Genome-wide sequence analyses of ethnic populations across Russia. Genomics 2019; 112:442-458. [PMID: 30902755 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2018] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The Russian Federation is the largest and one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, however no centralized reference database of genetic variation exists to date. Such data are crucial for medical genetics and essential for studying population history. The Genome Russia Project aims at filling this gap by performing whole genome sequencing and analysis of peoples of the Russian Federation. Here we report the characterization of genome-wide variation of 264 healthy adults, including 60 newly sequenced samples. People of Russia carry known and novel genetic variants of adaptive, clinical and functional consequence that in many cases show allele frequency divergence from neighboring populations. Population genetics analyses revealed six phylogeographic partitions among indigenous ethnicities corresponding to their geographic locales. This study presents a characterization of population-specific genomic variation in Russia with results important for medical genetics and for understanding the dynamic population history of the world's largest country.
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- Daria V Zhernakova
- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Department of Mathematics, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Biology Department, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; I.I. Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Biology Department, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Centre Biobank, Research Park, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Centre Biobank, Research Park, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Laboratory of biobanking and genomic medicine of Institute of translation biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; JetBrains Research, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Federal State Budgetary Scietific Institution, "Yakut science center of complex medical problems", Yakutsk, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Health, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russian Federation
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- Department of Molecular Bases of Human Genetics, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation; Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russian Federation; Biobank of North Eurasia, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Health, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russian Federation
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- Department of Ethnography and Anthropology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Research Institute of Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center, Russian Academy of Science, Tomsk, Russian Federation
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- Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center, Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University, 8000 North Ocean Drive, Ft Lauderdale, Florida 33004, USA.
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Sylvester C, Krishna MS, Rao JS, Chandrasekar A. Neolithic phylogenetic continuity inferred from complete mitochondrial DNA sequences in a tribal population of Southern India. Genetica 2018; 146:383-389. [PMID: 30032461 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-018-0030-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2018] [Accepted: 07/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The subsequent human migrations that dispersed out of Africa, both prehistoric and historic and colonization of India by modern humans is unanimous, and phylogeny of major mitochondrial DNA haplogroups have played a key role in assessing the genetic origin of people of India. To address more such events, complete mitogenomes of 113 Melakudiya tribe of Southern India were sequenced and 46 individuals showed the presence of west Eurasian autochthonous haplogroups HV14 and U7. Phylogenetic analysis revealed two novel subclades HV14a1b and HV14a1b1 and sequences representing haplogroup U7 were included under previously described subclade U7a3a1a2* specific to India. Moreover, the present analysis on complete mtDNA reveals addition information of the spread and distribution of west Eurasian haplogroups in southern India, in tracing an unexplored genetic link between Melakudiya tribe with the people of Iranian Plateau, South Caucasus, and Central Asia. Coalescence ages of HV14 and U7a3a1a2* trees in the present study dates ~ 16.1 ± 4.3 and ~ 13.4 ± 5.6 kya respectively.
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- Charles Sylvester
- Department of Studies in Zoology, University of Mysore, Mysore, India.,Anthropological Survey of India, Southern Regional Center, Mysore, India
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- Anthropological Survey of India, Southern Regional Center, Mysore, India
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Malyarchuk B, Derenko M, Denisova G, Litvinov A, Rogalla U, Skonieczna K, Grzybowski T, Pentelényi K, Guba Z, Zeke T, Molnár MJ. Whole mitochondrial genome diversity in two Hungarian populations. Mol Genet Genomics 2018; 293:1255-1263. [PMID: 29948329 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-018-1458-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 06/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Complete mitochondrial genomics is an effective tool for studying the demographic history of human populations, but there is still a deficit of mitogenomic data in European populations. In this paper, we present results of study of variability of 80 complete mitochondrial genomes in two Hungarian populations from eastern part of Hungary (Szeged and Debrecen areas). The genetic diversity of Hungarian mitogenomes is remarkably high, reaching 99.9% in a combined sample. According to the analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA), European populations showed a low, but statistically significant level of between-population differentiation (Fst = 0.61%, p = 0), and two Hungarian populations demonstrate lack of between-population differences. Phylogeographic analysis allowed us to identify 71 different mtDNA sub-clades in Hungarians, sixteen of which are novel. Analysis of ancestry-informative mtDNA sub-clades revealed a complex genetic structure associated with the genetic impact of populations from different parts of Eurasia, though the contribution from European populations is the most pronounced. At least 8% of ancestry-informative haplotypes found in Hungarians demonstrate similarity with East and West Slavic populations (sub-clades H1c23a, H2a1c1, J2b1a6, T2b25a1, U4a2e, K1c1j, and I1a1c), while the influence of Siberian populations is not so noticeable (sub-clades A12a, C4a1a, and probably U4b1a4).
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- Boris Malyarchuk
- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street, 18, Magadan, 685000, Russia.
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street, 18, Magadan, 685000, Russia
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street, 18, Magadan, 685000, Russia
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- Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street, 18, Magadan, 685000, Russia
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 85-094, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 85-094, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 85-094, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Institute of Genomic Medicine and Rare Disorders, Semmelweis University, Budapest, 1085, Hungary
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- Hungarian Molecular Anthropological Research Group, Debrecen, 4030, Hungary
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- Hungarian Molecular Anthropological Research Group, Debrecen, 4030, Hungary
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- Institute of Genomic Medicine and Rare Disorders, Semmelweis University, Budapest, 1085, Hungary
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Malyarchuk B, Litvinov A, Derenko M, Skonieczna K, Grzybowski T, Grosheva A, Shneider Y, Rychkov S, Zhukova O. Mitogenomic diversity in Russians and Poles. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2017. [PMID: 28633069 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Complete mtDNA genome sequencing improves molecular resolution for distinguishing variation between individuals and populations, but there is still deficiency of mitogenomic population data. To overcome this limitation, we used Sanger-based protocol to generate complete mtDNA sequences of 376 Russian individuals from six populations of European part of Russia and 100 Polish individuals from northern Poland. Nearly complete resolution of mtDNA haplotypes was achieved - about 97% of haplotypes were unique both in Russians and Poles, and no haplotypes overlapped between them when indels were considered. While European populations showed a low, but statistically significant level of between-population differentiation (Fst=0.66%, p=0), Russians demonstrate lack of between-population differences (Fst=0.22%, p=0.15). Results of the Bayesian skyline analysis of Russian mitogenomes demonstrate not only post-Last Glacial Maximum expansion, but also rapid population growth starting from about 4.3kya (95% CI: 2.9-5.8kya), i.e. in the Bronze Age. This expansion strongly correlates with the Kurgan model established by archaeologists and confirmed by paleogeneticists.
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- Boris Malyarchuk
- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far-East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street 18, Magadan 685000, Russia.
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far-East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street 18, Magadan 685000, Russia
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far-East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Portovaya Street 18, Magadan 685000, Russia
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- Division of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Department of Forensic Medicine, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University,Sklodowskiej-Curie Street 9, Bydgoszcz 85-094, Poland
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- Division of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Department of Forensic Medicine, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University,Sklodowskiej-Curie Street 9, Bydgoszcz 85-094, Poland
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- N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences,Gubkin Street 3, Moscow 119991, Russia, Russia
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- N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences,Gubkin Street 3, Moscow 119991, Russia, Russia
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- N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences,Gubkin Street 3, Moscow 119991, Russia, Russia
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- N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences,Gubkin Street 3, Moscow 119991, Russia, Russia
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Origin and spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7. Sci Rep 2017; 7:46044. [PMID: 28387361 PMCID: PMC5384202 DOI: 10.1038/srep46044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U is among the initial maternal founders in Southwest Asia and Europe and one that best indicates matrilineal genetic continuity between late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer groups and present-day populations of Europe. While most haplogroup U subclades are older than 30 thousand years, the comparatively recent coalescence time of the extant variation of haplogroup U7 (~16–19 thousand years ago) suggests that its current distribution is the consequence of more recent dispersal events, despite its wide geographical range across Europe, the Near East and South Asia. Here we report 267 new U7 mitogenomes that – analysed alongside 100 published ones – enable us to discern at least two distinct temporal phases of dispersal, both of which most likely emanated from the Near East. The earlier one began prior to the Holocene (~11.5 thousand years ago) towards South Asia, while the later dispersal took place more recently towards Mediterranean Europe during the Neolithic (~8 thousand years ago). These findings imply that the carriers of haplogroup U7 spread to South Asia and Europe before the suggested Bronze Age expansion of Indo-European languages from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe region.
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Davidovic S, Malyarchuk B, Aleksic J, Derenko M, Topalovic V, Litvinov A, Skonieczna K, Rogalla U, Grzybowski T, Stevanovic M, Kovacevic-Grujicic N. Mitochondrial super-haplogroup U diversity in Serbians. Ann Hum Biol 2017; 44:408-418. [PMID: 28140657 DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2017.1287954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND Available mitochondrial (mtDNA) data demonstrate genetic differentiation among South Slavs inhabiting the Balkan Peninsula. However, their resolution is insufficient to elucidate the female-specific aspects of the genetic history of South Slavs, including the genetic impact of various migrations which were rather common within the Balkans, a region having a turbulent demographic history. AIM The aim was to thoroughly study complete mitogenomes of Serbians, a population linking westward and eastward South Slavs. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Forty-six predominantly Serbian super-haplogroup U complete mitogenomes were analysed phylogenetically against ∼4000 available complete mtDNAs of modern and ancient Western Eurasians. RESULTS Serbians share a number of U mtDNA lineages with Southern, Eastern-Central and North-Western Europeans. Putative Balkan-specific lineages (e.g. U1a1c2, U4c1b1, U5b3j, K1a4l and K1a13a1) and lineages shared among Serbians (South Slavs) and West and East Slavs were detected (e.g. U2e1b1, U2e2a1d, U4a2a, U4a2c, U4a2g1, U4d2b and U5b1a1). CONCLUSION The exceptional diversity of maternal lineages found in Serbians may be associated with the genetic impact of both autochthonous pre-Slavic Balkan populations whose mtDNA gene pool was affected by migrations of various populations over time (e.g. Bronze Age pastoralists) and Slavic and Germanic newcomers in the early Middle Ages.
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- Slobodan Davidovic
- a Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering , University of Belgrade , Belgrade , Serbia
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- b Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North , Russian Academy of Sciences , Magadan , Russia
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- a Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering , University of Belgrade , Belgrade , Serbia
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- b Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North , Russian Academy of Sciences , Magadan , Russia
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- a Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering , University of Belgrade , Belgrade , Serbia
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- b Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biological Problems of the North , Russian Academy of Sciences , Magadan , Russia
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- c Department of Forensic Medicine, Division of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Faculty of Medicine , Nicolaus Copernicus University , Bydgoszcz , Poland
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- c Department of Forensic Medicine, Division of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Faculty of Medicine , Nicolaus Copernicus University , Bydgoszcz , Poland
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- c Department of Forensic Medicine, Division of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Faculty of Medicine , Nicolaus Copernicus University , Bydgoszcz , Poland
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- a Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering , University of Belgrade , Belgrade , Serbia
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- a Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering , University of Belgrade , Belgrade , Serbia
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Nikitin AG, Ivanova S, Kiosak D, Badgerow J, Pashnick J. Subdivisions of haplogroups U and C encompass mitochondrial DNA lineages of Eneolithic-Early Bronze Age Kurgan populations of western North Pontic steppe. J Hum Genet 2017; 62:605-613. [PMID: 28148921 DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2017.12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2016] [Revised: 01/10/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Prehistoric Europe experienced a marked cultural and economic shift around 4000 years ago, when the established Neolithic agriculture-based economy was replaced by herding-pastoralist industry. In recent years new data about the genetic structure of human communities living during this transition period began to emerge. At the same time, the genetic identities of the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) inhabitants from a prehistoric cultural crossroad in western North Pontic steppe region remain understudied. This report presents results of the investigation of maternal genetic lineages of individuals buried in kurgans constructed during the Eneolithic-EBA transition in the western part of the North Pontic Region (NPR). Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages from the interments belonging to the Eneolithic as well as the EBA cultures such as Yamna (Pit Grave), Catacomb and Babino (Mnogovalikovaya or KMK) were examined. In the 12 successfully haplotyped specimens, 75% of mtDNA lineages consisted of west Eurasian haplogroup U and its U4 and U5 sublineages. Furthermore, we identified a subgroup of east Eurasian haplogroup C in two representatives of the Yamna culture in one of the studied kurgans. Our results indicate the persistence of Mesolithic hunter-gatherer mtDNA lineages in western NPR through the EBA, as well as suggesting a mtDNA lineage continuum connecting the western NPR inhabitants of the Early Metal Ages to the North Pontic Neolithic population groups.
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- Alexey G Nikitin
- Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA
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- Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa, Ukraine
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- I.I. Mechnikov Odessa National University, Odessa, Ukraine
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- Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA
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- Biology Department, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA
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Turchi C, Stanciu F, Paselli G, Buscemi L, Parson W, Tagliabracci A. The mitochondrial DNA makeup of Romanians: A forensic mtDNA control region database and phylogenetic characterization. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2016; 24:136-142. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2016] [Revised: 05/26/2016] [Accepted: 06/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Pankratov V, Litvinov S, Kassian A, Shulhin D, Tchebotarev L, Yunusbayev B, Möls M, Sahakyan H, Yepiskoposyan L, Rootsi S, Metspalu E, Golubenko M, Ekomasova N, Akhatova F, Khusnutdinova E, Heyer E, Endicott P, Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Metspalu M, Davydenko O, Villems R, Kushniarevich A. East Eurasian ancestry in the middle of Europe: genetic footprints of Steppe nomads in the genomes of Belarusian Lipka Tatars. Sci Rep 2016; 6:30197. [PMID: 27453128 PMCID: PMC4958967 DOI: 10.1038/srep30197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Medieval era encounters of nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe and largely sedentary East Europeans had a variety of demographic and cultural consequences. Amongst these outcomes was the emergence of the Lipka Tatars—a Slavic-speaking Sunni-Muslim minority residing in modern Belarus, Lithuania and Poland, whose ancestors arrived in these territories via several migration waves, mainly from the Golden Horde. Our results show that Belarusian Lipka Tatars share a substantial part of their gene pool with Europeans as indicated by their Y-chromosomal, mitochondrial and autosomal DNA variation. Nevertheless, Belarusian Lipkas still retain a strong genetic signal of their nomadic ancestry, witnessed by the presence of common Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA variants as well as autosomal segments identical by descent between Lipkas and East Eurasians from temperate and northern regions. Hence, we document Lipka Tatars as a unique example of former Medieval migrants into Central Europe, who became sedentary, changed language to Slavic, yet preserved their faith and retained, both uni- and bi-parentally, a clear genetic echo of a complex population interplay throughout the Eurasian Steppe Belt, extending from Central Europe to northern China.
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- Vasili Pankratov
- Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.,Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.,School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia
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- Belarusian State University, Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Department of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Minsk, Belarus
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- Center of analytical and genetic engineering studies, Institute of Microbiology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
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- Institute of Mathematical Statistics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia
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- Laboratory of Ethnogenomics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- The Research Institute for Medical Genetics, 634050, Tomsk, Russia
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- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine of Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine of Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.,Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Research Centre, RAS, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia.,Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine of Bashkir State University, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
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- Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, UMR 7206 CNRS, MNHN, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Universités, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
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- Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, UMR 7206 CNRS, MNHN, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Universités, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia
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- Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
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- Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.,Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
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Csákyová V, Szécsényi-Nagy A, Csősz A, Nagy M, Fusek G, Langó P, Bauer M, Mende BG, Makovický P, Bauerová M. Maternal Genetic Composition of a Medieval Population from a Hungarian-Slavic Contact Zone in Central Europe. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0151206. [PMID: 26963389 PMCID: PMC4786151 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The genetic composition of the medieval populations of Central Europe has been poorly investigated to date. In particular, the region of modern-day Slovakia is a blank spot in archaeogenetic research. This paper reports the study of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in ancient samples from the 9th–12th centuries originating from the cemeteries discovered in Nitra-Šindolka and Čakajovce, located in western Slovakia (Central Europe). This geographical region is interesting to study because its medieval multi-ethnic population lived in the so-called contact zone of the territory of the Great Moravian and later Hungarian state formations. We described 16 different mtDNA haplotypes in 19 individuals, which belong to the most widespread European mtDNA haplogroups: H, J, T, U and R0. Using comparative statistical and population genetic analyses, we showed the differentiation of the European gene pool in the medieval period. We also demonstrated the heterogeneous genetic characteristics of the investigated population and its affinity to the populations of modern Europe.
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- Veronika Csákyová
- Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia
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- Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, J. Selye University in Komárno, Komárno, Slovakia
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- Institute of Archaeology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra, Slovakia
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- Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia
- Research Institute for Animal Production, NAFC, Nitra, Slovakia
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- Laboratory of Archaeogenetics, Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, J. Selye University in Komárno, Komárno, Slovakia
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- Department of Botany and Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Nitra, Slovakia
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Gubina MA, Babenko VN, Ivanoshchuk DE, Shuryaeva AK, Latieva OO, Solov’eva IG, Ponomareva MN, Konovalova NA, Maksimov VN, Voevoda MI. Polymorphism of the c-fms, ITGB3, CCR2, and DBH genes in the populations of old believers of the Tyumen oblast and Russian residents of Novosibirsk. Mol Biol 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893316010052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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De Fanti S, Barbieri C, Sarno S, Sevini F, Vianello D, Tamm E, Metspalu E, van Oven M, Hübner A, Sazzini M, Franceschi C, Pettener D, Luiselli D. Fine Dissection of Human Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup HV Lineages Reveals Paleolithic Signatures from European Glacial Refugia. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0144391. [PMID: 26640946 PMCID: PMC4671665 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2015] [Accepted: 11/17/2015] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Genetic signatures from the Paleolithic inhabitants of Eurasia can be traced from the early divergent mitochondrial DNA lineages still present in contemporary human populations. Previous studies already suggested a pre-Neolithic diffusion of mitochondrial haplogroup HV*(xH,V) lineages, a relatively rare class of mtDNA types that includes parallel branches mainly distributed across Europe and West Asia with a certain degree of structure. Up till now, variation within haplogroup HV was addressed mainly by analyzing sequence data from the mtDNA control region, except for specific sub-branches, such as HV4 or the widely distributed haplogroups H and V. In this study, we present a revised HV topology based on full mtDNA genome data, and we include a comprehensive dataset consisting of 316 complete mtDNA sequences including 60 new samples from the Italian peninsula, a previously underrepresented geographic area. We highlight points of instability in the particular topology of this haplogroup, reconstructed with BEAST-generated trees and networks. We also confirm a major lineage expansion that probably followed the Late Glacial Maximum and preceded Neolithic population movements. We finally observe that Italy harbors a reservoir of mtDNA diversity, with deep-rooting HV lineages often related to sequences present in the Caucasus and the Middle East. The resulting hypothesis of a glacial refugium in Southern Italy has implications for the understanding of late Paleolithic population movements and is discussed within the archaeological cultural shifts occurred over the entire continent.
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- Sara De Fanti
- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- C.I.G. Interdepartmental Centre L. Galvani for Integrated Studies on Bioinformatics, Biophysics and Biocomplexity, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- C.I.G. Interdepartmental Centre L. Galvani for Integrated Studies on Bioinformatics, Biophysics and Biocomplexity, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Estonian Biocentre, Evolutionary Biology group, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Forensic Molecular Biology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- C.I.G. Interdepartmental Centre L. Galvani for Integrated Studies on Bioinformatics, Biophysics and Biocomplexity, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- IRCCS, Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Ospedale Bellaria, Bologna, Italy
- CNR, Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (ISOF), Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Genetic Heritage of the Balto-Slavic Speaking Populations: A Synthesis of Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosomal Data. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0135820. [PMID: 26332464 PMCID: PMC4558026 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2015] [Accepted: 07/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The Slavic branch of the Balto-Slavic sub-family of Indo-European languages underwent rapid divergence as a result of the spatial expansion of its speakers from Central-East Europe, in early medieval times. This expansion–mainly to East Europe and the northern Balkans–resulted in the incorporation of genetic components from numerous autochthonous populations into the Slavic gene pools. Here, we characterize genetic variation in all extant ethnic groups speaking Balto-Slavic languages by analyzing mitochondrial DNA (n = 6,876), Y-chromosomes (n = 6,079) and genome-wide SNP profiles (n = 296), within the context of other European populations. We also reassess the phylogeny of Slavic languages within the Balto-Slavic branch of Indo-European. We find that genetic distances among Balto-Slavic populations, based on autosomal and Y-chromosomal loci, show a high correlation (0.9) both with each other and with geography, but a slightly lower correlation (0.7) with mitochondrial DNA and linguistic affiliation. The data suggest that genetic diversity of the present-day Slavs was predominantly shaped in situ, and we detect two different substrata: ‘central-east European’ for West and East Slavs, and ‘south-east European’ for South Slavs. A pattern of distribution of segments identical by descent between groups of East-West and South Slavs suggests shared ancestry or a modest gene flow between those two groups, which might derive from the historic spread of Slavic people.
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Li C, Ning C, Hagelberg E, Li H, Zhao Y, Li W, Abuduresule I, Zhu H, Zhou H. Analysis of ancient human mitochondrial DNA from the Xiaohe cemetery: insights into prehistoric population movements in the Tarim Basin, China. BMC Genet 2015; 16:78. [PMID: 26153446 PMCID: PMC4495690 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-015-0237-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2015] [Accepted: 06/22/2015] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Background The Tarim Basin in western China, known for its amazingly well-preserved mummies, has been for thousands of years an important crossroad between the eastern and western parts of Eurasia. Despite its key position in communications and migration, and highly diverse peoples, languages and cultures, its prehistory is poorly understood. To shed light on the origin of the populations of the Tarim Basin, we analysed mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms in human skeletal remains excavated from the Xiaohe cemetery, used by the local community between 4000 and 3500 years before present, and possibly representing some of the earliest settlers. Results Xiaohe people carried a wide variety of maternal lineages, including West Eurasian lineages H, K, U5, U7, U2e, T, R*, East Eurasian lineages B, C4, C5, D, G2a and Indian lineage M5. Conclusion Our results indicate that the people of the Tarim Basin had a diverse maternal ancestry, with origins in Europe, central/eastern Siberia and southern/western Asia. These findings, together with information on the cultural context of the Xiaohe cemetery, can be used to test contrasting hypotheses of route of settlement into the Tarim Basin. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12863-015-0237-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Chunxiang Li
- College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130023, P. R. China. .,Ancient DNA Laboratory, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China.
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- College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130023, P. R. China.
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, 0316, Oslo, Norway.
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- Ancient DNA Laboratory, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China.
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- Life Science College, Jilin Normal University, Siping, 136000, P. R.China.
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- Xinjiang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute, Ürümchi, 830000, P. R. China.
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- Xinjiang Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute, Ürümchi, 830000, P. R. China.
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- Ancient DNA Laboratory, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China.
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- College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, 130023, P. R. China. .,Ancient DNA Laboratory, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China.
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Palanichamy MG, Mitra B, Zhang CL, Debnath M, Li GM, Wang HW, Agrawal S, Chaudhuri TK, Zhang YP. West Eurasian mtDNA lineages in India: an insight into the spread of the Dravidian language and the origins of the caste system. Hum Genet 2015; 134:637-47. [PMID: 25832481 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-015-1547-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2015] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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There is no indication from the previous mtDNA studies that west Eurasian-specific subclades have evolved within India and played a role in the spread of languages and the origins of the caste system. To address these issues, we have screened 14,198 individuals (4208 from this study) and analyzed 112 mitogenomes (41 new sequences) to trace west Eurasian maternal ancestry. This has led to the identification of two autochthonous subhaplogroups--HV14a1 and U1a1a4, which are likely to have originated in the Dravidian-speaking populations approximately 10.5-17.9 thousand years ago (kya). The carriers of these maternal lineages might have settled in South India during the time of the spread of the Dravidian language. In addition to this, we have identified several subsets of autochthonous U7 lineages, including U7a1, U7a2b, U7a3, U7a6, U7a7, and U7c, which seem to have originated particularly in the higher-ranked caste populations in relatively recent times (2.6-8.0 kya with an average of 5.7 kya). These lineages have provided crucial clues to the differentiation of the caste system that has occurred during the recent past and possibly, this might have been influenced by the Indo-Aryan migration. The remaining west Eurasian lineages observed in the higher-ranked caste groups, like the Brahmins, were found to cluster with populations who possibly arrived from west Asia during more recent times.
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- Malliya Gounder Palanichamy
- Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650 091, Yunnan, China,
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Rothe J, Melisch C, Powers N, Geppert M, Zander J, Purps J, Spors B, Nagy M. Genetic research at a fivefold children's burial from medieval Berlin. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2015; 15:90-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.10.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2014] [Revised: 10/20/2014] [Accepted: 10/24/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Davidovic S, Malyarchuk B, Aleksic JM, Derenko M, Topalovic V, Litvinov A, Stevanovic M, Kovacevic-Grujicic N. Mitochondrial DNA perspective of Serbian genetic diversity. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2014; 156:449-65. [PMID: 25418795 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2014] [Accepted: 11/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Although south-Slavic populations have been studied to date from various aspects, the population of Serbia, occupying the central part of the Balkan Peninsula, is still genetically understudied at least at the level of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation. We analyzed polymorphisms of the first and the second mtDNA hypervariable segments (HVS-I and HVS-II) and informative coding-region markers in 139 Serbians to shed more light on their mtDNA variability, and used available data on other Slavic and neighboring non-Slavic populations to assess their interrelations in a broader European context. The contemporary Serbian mtDNA profile is consistent with the general European maternal landscape having a substantial proportion of shared haplotypes with eastern, central, and southern European populations. Serbian population was characterized as an important link between easternmost and westernmost south-Slavic populations due to the observed lack of genetic differentiation with all other south-Slavic populations and its geographical positioning within the Balkan Peninsula. An increased heterogeneity of south Slavs, most likely mirroring turbulent demographic events within the Balkan Peninsula over time (i.e., frequent admixture and differential introgression of various gene pools), and a marked geographical stratification of Slavs to south-, east-, and west-Slavic groups, were also found. A phylogeographic analyses of 20 completely sequenced Serbian mitochondrial genomes revealed not only the presence of mtDNA lineages predominantly found within the Slavic gene pool (U4a2a*, U4a2a1, U4a2c, U4a2g, HV10), supporting a common Slavic origin, but also lineages that may have originated within the southern Europe (H5*, H5e1, H5a1v) and the Balkan Peninsula in particular (H6a2b and L2a1k).
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- Slobodan Davidovic
- Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, 11010, Belgrade, Serbia
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Juras A, Dabert M, Kushniarevich A, Malmström H, Raghavan M, Kosicki JZ, Metspalu E, Willerslev E, Piontek J. Ancient DNA reveals matrilineal continuity in present-day Poland over the last two millennia. PLoS One 2014; 9:e110839. [PMID: 25337992 PMCID: PMC4206425 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2014] [Accepted: 09/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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While numerous ancient human DNA datasets from across Europe have been published till date, modern-day Poland in particular, remains uninvestigated. Besides application in the reconstruction of continent-wide human history, data from this region would also contribute towards our understanding of the history of the Slavs, whose origin is hypothesized to be in East or Central Europe. Here, we present the first population-scale ancient human DNA study from the region of modern-day Poland by establishing mitochondrial DNA profiles for 23 samples dated to 200 BC – 500 AD (Roman Iron Age) and for 20 samples dated to 1000–1400 AD (Medieval Age). Our results show that mitochondrial DNA sequences from both periods belong to haplogroups that are characteristic of contemporary West Eurasia. Haplotype sharing analysis indicates that majority of the ancient haplotypes are widespread in some modern Europeans, including Poles. Notably, the Roman Iron Age samples share more rare haplotypes with Central and Northeast Europeans, whereas the Medieval Age samples share more rare haplotypes with East-Central and South-East Europeans, primarily Slavic populations. Our data demonstrates genetic continuity of certain matrilineages (H5a1 and N1a1a2) in the area of present-day Poland from at least the Roman Iron Age until present. As such, the maternal gene pool of present-day Poles, Czechs and Slovaks, categorized as Western Slavs, is likely to have descended from inhabitants of East-Central Europe during the Roman Iron Age.
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- Anna Juras
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
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- Molecular Biology Techniques Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
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- Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland
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Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Denisova G, Perkova M, Litvinov A, Grzybowski T, Dambueva I, Skonieczna K, Rogalla U, Tsybovsky I, Zakharov I. Western Eurasian ancestry in modern Siberians based on mitogenomic data. BMC Evol Biol 2014; 14:217. [PMID: 25301575 PMCID: PMC4195960 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0217-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2014] [Accepted: 09/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background Although the genetic heritage of aboriginal Siberians is mostly of eastern Asian ancestry, a substantial western Eurasian component is observed in the majority of northern Asian populations. Traces of at least two migrations into southern Siberia, one from eastern Europe and the other from western Asia/the Caucasus have been detected previously in mitochondrial gene pools of modern Siberians. Results We report here 166 new complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences that allow us to expand and re-analyze the available data sets of western Eurasian lineages found in northern Asian populations, define the phylogenetic status of Siberian-specific subclades and search for links between mtDNA haplotypes/subclades and events of human migrations. From a survey of 158 western Eurasian mtDNA genomes found in Siberia we estimate that nearly 40% of them most likely have western Asian and another 29% European ancestry. It is striking that 65 of northern Asian mitogenomes, i.e. ~41%, fall into 19 branches and subclades which can be considered as Siberian-specific being found so far only in Siberian populations. From the coalescence analysis it is evident that the sequence divergence of Siberian-specific subclades was relatively small, corresponding to only 0.6-9.5 kya (using the complete mtDNA rate) and 1–6 kya (coding region rate). Conclusions The phylogeographic analysis implies that the western Eurasian founders, giving rise to Siberian specific subclades, may trace their ancestry only to the early and mid-Holocene, though some of genetic lineages may trace their ancestry back to the end of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). We have not found the modern northern Asians to have western Eurasian genetic components of sufficient antiquity to indicate traces of pre-LGM expansions. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0217-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Miroslava Derenko
- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia.
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Gubina MA, Babenko VN, Damba LD, Ponomareva MN, Konovalova NA, Voevoda MI. Polymorphism of mitochondrial DNA in old believers from Siberia. RUSS J GENET+ 2014. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795414060040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Sarac J, Sarić T, Auguštin DH, Jeran N, Kovačević L, Cvjetan S, Lewis AP, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Novokmet N, Vidovič M, Nevajda B, Glasnović A, Marjanović D, Missoni S, Villems R, Rudan P. Maternal genetic heritage of Southeastern Europe reveals a new Croatian isolate and a novel, local sub-branching in the x2 haplogroup. Ann Hum Genet 2014; 78:178-94. [PMID: 24621318 DOI: 10.1111/ahg.12056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2013] [Accepted: 12/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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High mtDNA variation in Southeastern Europe (SEE) is a reflection of the turbulent and complex demographic history of this area, influenced by gene flow from various parts of Eurasia and a long history of intermixing. Our results of 1035 samples (488 from Croatia, 239 from Bosnia and 130 from Herzegovina, reported earlier, and 97 Slovenians and 81 individuals from Žumberak, reported here for the first time) show that the SEE maternal genetic diversity fits within a broader European maternal genetic landscape. The study also shows that the population of Žumberak, located in the continental part of Croatia, developed some unique mtDNA haplotypes and elevated haplogroup frequencies due to distinctive demographic history and can be considered a moderate genetic isolate. We also report seven samples from the Bosnian population and one Herzegovinian sample designated as X2* individuals that could not be assigned to any of its sublineages (X2a'o) according to the existing X2 phylogeny. In an attempt to clarify the phylogeny of our X2 samples, their mitochondrial DNA has been completely sequenced. We suppose that these lineages are signs of local microdifferentiation processes that occurred in the recent demographic past in this area and could possibly be marked as SEE-specific X2 sublineages.
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- Jelena Sarac
- Institute for Anthropological Research, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Kushniarevich A, Sivitskaya L, Danilenko N, Novogrodskii T, Tsybovsky I, Kiseleva A, Kotova S, Chaubey G, Metspalu E, Sahakyan H, Bahmanimehr A, Reidla M, Rootsi S, Parik J, Reisberg T, Achilli A, Hooshiar Kashani B, Gandini F, Olivieri A, Behar DM, Torroni A, Davydenko O, Villems R. Uniparental genetic heritage of belarusians: encounter of rare middle eastern matrilineages with a central European mitochondrial DNA pool. PLoS One 2013; 8:e66499. [PMID: 23785503 PMCID: PMC3681942 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2013] [Accepted: 05/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Ethnic Belarusians make up more than 80% of the nine and half million people inhabiting the Republic of Belarus. Belarusians together with Ukrainians and Russians represent the East Slavic linguistic group, largest both in numbers and territory, inhabiting East Europe alongside Baltic-, Finno-Permic- and Turkic-speaking people. Till date, only a limited number of low resolution genetic studies have been performed on this population. Therefore, with the phylogeographic analysis of 565 Y-chromosomes and 267 mitochondrial DNAs from six well covered geographic sub-regions of Belarus we strove to complement the existing genetic profile of eastern Europeans. Our results reveal that around 80% of the paternal Belarusian gene pool is composed of R1a, I2a and N1c Y-chromosome haplogroups – a profile which is very similar to the two other eastern European populations – Ukrainians and Russians. The maternal Belarusian gene pool encompasses a full range of West Eurasian haplogroups and agrees well with the genetic structure of central-east European populations. Our data attest that latitudinal gradients characterize the variation of the uniparentally transmitted gene pools of modern Belarusians. In particular, the Y-chromosome reflects movements of people in central-east Europe, starting probably as early as the beginning of the Holocene. Furthermore, the matrilineal legacy of Belarusians retains two rare mitochondrial DNA haplogroups, N1a3 and N3, whose phylogeographies were explored in detail after de novo sequencing of 20 and 13 complete mitogenomes, respectively, from all over Eurasia. Our phylogeographic analyses reveal that two mitochondrial DNA lineages, N3 and N1a3, both of Middle Eastern origin, might mark distinct events of matrilineal gene flow to Europe: during the mid-Holocene period and around the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, respectively.
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Bekada A, Fregel R, Cabrera VM, Larruga JM, Pestano J, Benhamamouch S, González AM. Introducing the Algerian mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome profiles into the North African landscape. PLoS One 2013; 8:e56775. [PMID: 23431392 PMCID: PMC3576335 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2012] [Accepted: 01/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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North Africa is considered a distinct geographic and ethnic entity within Africa. Although modern humans originated in this Continent, studies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome genealogical markers provide evidence that the North African gene pool has been shaped by the back-migration of several Eurasian lineages in Paleolithic and Neolithic times. More recent influences from sub-Saharan Africa and Mediterranean Europe are also evident. The presence of East-West and North-South haplogroup frequency gradients strongly reinforces the genetic complexity of this region. However, this genetic scenario is beset with a notable gap, which is the lack of consistent information for Algeria, the largest country in the Maghreb. To fill this gap, we analyzed a sample of 240 unrelated subjects from a northwest Algeria cosmopolitan population using mtDNA sequences and Y-chromosome biallelic polymorphisms, focusing on the fine dissection of haplogroups E and R, which are the most prevalent in North Africa and Europe respectively. The Eurasian component in Algeria reached 80% for mtDNA and 90% for Y-chromosome. However, within them, the North African genetic component for mtDNA (U6 and M1; 20%) is significantly smaller than the paternal (E-M81 and E-V65; 70%). The unexpected presence of the European-derived Y-chromosome lineages R-M412, R-S116, R-U152 and R-M529 in Algeria and the rest of the Maghreb could be the counterparts of the mtDNA H1, H3 and V subgroups, pointing to direct maritime contacts between the European and North African sides of the western Mediterranean. Female influx of sub-Saharan Africans into Algeria (20%) is also significantly greater than the male (10%). In spite of these sexual asymmetries, the Algerian uniparental profiles faithfully correlate between each other and with the geography.
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- Asmahan Bekada
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Oran, Oran, Algeria
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Spain
- Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Legal Medicine of Las Palmas, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Spain
- Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Legal Medicine of Las Palmas, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Oran, Oran, Algeria
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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Der Sarkissian C, Balanovsky O, Brandt G, Khartanovich V, Buzhilova A, Koshel S, Zaporozhchenko V, Gronenborn D, Moiseyev V, Kolpakov E, Shumkin V, Alt KW, Balanovska E, Cooper A, Haak W. Ancient DNA reveals prehistoric gene-flow from siberia in the complex human population history of North East Europe. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003296. [PMID: 23459685 PMCID: PMC3573127 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2012] [Accepted: 12/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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North East Europe harbors a high diversity of cultures and languages, suggesting a complex genetic history. Archaeological, anthropological, and genetic research has revealed a series of influences from Western and Eastern Eurasia in the past. While genetic data from modern-day populations is commonly used to make inferences about their origins and past migrations, ancient DNA provides a powerful test of such hypotheses by giving a snapshot of the past genetic diversity. In order to better understand the dynamics that have shaped the gene pool of North East Europeans, we generated and analyzed 34 mitochondrial genotypes from the skeletal remains of three archaeological sites in northwest Russia. These sites were dated to the Mesolithic and the Early Metal Age (7,500 and 3,500 uncalibrated years Before Present). We applied a suite of population genetic analyses (principal component analysis, genetic distance mapping, haplotype sharing analyses) and compared past demographic models through coalescent simulations using Bayesian Serial SimCoal and Approximate Bayesian Computation. Comparisons of genetic data from ancient and modern-day populations revealed significant changes in the mitochondrial makeup of North East Europeans through time. Mesolithic foragers showed high frequencies and diversity of haplogroups U (U2e, U4, U5a), a pattern observed previously in European hunter-gatherers from Iberia to Scandinavia. In contrast, the presence of mitochondrial DNA haplogroups C, D, and Z in Early Metal Age individuals suggested discontinuity with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and genetic influx from central/eastern Siberia. We identified remarkable genetic dissimilarities between prehistoric and modern-day North East Europeans/Saami, which suggests an important role of post-Mesolithic migrations from Western Europe and subsequent population replacement/extinctions. This work demonstrates how ancient DNA can improve our understanding of human population movements across Eurasia. It contributes to the description of the spatio-temporal distribution of mitochondrial diversity and will be of significance for future reconstructions of the history of Europeans. The history of human populations can be retraced by studying the archaeological and anthropological record, but also by examining the current distribution of genetic markers, such as the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA. Ancient DNA research allows the retrieval of DNA from ancient skeletal remains and contributes to the reconstruction of the human population history through the comparison of ancient and present-day genetic data. Here, we analysed the mitochondrial DNA of prehistoric remains from archaeological sites dated to 7,500 and 3,500 years Before Present. These sites are located in North East Europe, a region that displays a significant cultural and linguistic diversity today but for which no ancient human DNA was available before. We show that prehistoric hunter-gatherers of North East Europe were genetically similar to other European foragers. We also detected a prehistoric genetic input from Siberia, followed by migrations from Western Europe into North East Europe. Our research contributes to the understanding of the origins and past dynamics of human population in Europe.
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- Clio Der Sarkissian
- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Badro DA, Douaihy B, Haber M, Youhanna SC, Salloum A, Ghassibe-Sabbagh M, Johnsrud B, Khazen G, Matisoo-Smith E, Soria-Hernanz DF, Wells RS, Tyler-Smith C, Platt DE, Zalloua PA. Y-chromosome and mtDNA genetics reveal significant contrasts in affinities of modern Middle Eastern populations with European and African populations. PLoS One 2013; 8:e54616. [PMID: 23382925 PMCID: PMC3559847 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2012] [Accepted: 12/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The Middle East was a funnel of human expansion out of Africa, a staging area for the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, and the home to some of the earliest world empires. Post LGM expansions into the region and subsequent population movements created a striking genetic mosaic with distinct sex-based genetic differentiation. While prior studies have examined the mtDNA and Y-chromosome contrast in focal populations in the Middle East, none have undertaken a broad-spectrum survey including North and sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Middle Eastern populations. In this study 5,174 mtDNA and 4,658 Y-chromosome samples were investigated using PCA, MDS, mean-linkage clustering, AMOVA, and Fisher exact tests of FST's, RST's, and haplogroup frequencies. Geographic differentiation in affinities of Middle Eastern populations with Africa and Europe showed distinct contrasts between mtDNA and Y-chromosome data. Specifically, Lebanon's mtDNA shows a very strong association to Europe, while Yemen shows very strong affinity with Egypt and North and East Africa. Previous Y-chromosome results showed a Levantine coastal-inland contrast marked by J1 and J2, and a very strong North African component was evident throughout the Middle East. Neither of these patterns were observed in the mtDNA. While J2 has penetrated into Europe, the pattern of Y-chromosome diversity in Lebanon does not show the widespread affinities with Europe indicated by the mtDNA data. Lastly, while each population shows evidence of connections with expansions that now define the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, many of the populations in the Middle East show distinctive mtDNA and Y-haplogroup characteristics that indicate long standing settlement with relatively little impact from and movement into other populations.
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- The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Departament de Ciències de la Salut i de la Vida, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- Computational Biology Centre, IBM TJ Watson Research Centre, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America
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- The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, Lebanon
- Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Mielnik-Sikorska M, Daca P, Malyarchuk B, Derenko M, Skonieczna K, Perkova M, Dobosz T, Grzybowski T. The history of Slavs inferred from complete mitochondrial genome sequences. PLoS One 2013; 8:e54360. [PMID: 23342138 PMCID: PMC3544712 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2012] [Accepted: 12/11/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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To shed more light on the processes leading to crystallization of a Slavic identity, we investigated variability of complete mitochondrial genomes belonging to haplogroups H5 and H6 (63 mtDNA genomes) from the populations of Eastern and Western Slavs, including new samples of Poles, Ukrainians and Czechs presented here. Molecular dating implies formation of H5 approximately 11.5–16 thousand years ago (kya) in the areas of southern Europe. Within ancient haplogroup H6, dated at around 15–28 kya, there is a subhaplogroup H6c, which probably survived the last glaciation in Europe and has undergone expansion only 3–4 kya, together with the ancestors of some European groups, including the Slavs, because H6c has been detected in Czechs, Poles and Slovaks. Detailed analysis of complete mtDNAs allowed us to identify a number of lineages that seem specific for Central and Eastern Europe (H5a1f, H5a2, H5a1r, H5a1s, H5b4, H5e1a, H5u1, some subbranches of H5a1a and H6a1a9). Some of them could possibly be traced back to at least ∼4 kya, which indicates that some of the ancestors of today's Slavs (Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians and Russians) inhabited areas of Central and Eastern Europe much earlier than it was estimated on the basis of archaeological and historical data. We also sequenced entire mitochondrial genomes of several non-European lineages (A, C, D, G, L) found in contemporary populations of Poland and Ukraine. The analysis of these haplogroups confirms the presence of Siberian (C5c1, A8a1) and Ashkenazi-specific (L2a1l2a) mtDNA lineages in Slavic populations. Moreover, we were able to pinpoint some lineages which could possibly reflect the relatively recent contacts of Slavs with nomadic Altaic peoples (C4a1a, G2a, D5a2a1a1).
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- Marta Mielnik-Sikorska
- Department of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Bydgoszcz, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Bydgoszcz, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far-East Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Magadan, Russia
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far-East Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Magadan, Russia
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- Department of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Bydgoszcz, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far-East Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Magadan, Russia
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- Department of Forensic Medicine, Wrocław Medical University, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Molecular and Forensic Genetics, Bydgoszcz, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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Pardiñas AF, Roca A, García-Vazquez E, López B. Assessing the genetic influence of ancient sociopolitical structure: micro-differentiation patterns in the population of Asturias (Northern Spain). PLoS One 2012; 7:e50206. [PMID: 23209673 PMCID: PMC3507697 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2012] [Accepted: 10/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The human populations of the Iberian Peninsula are the varied result of a complex mixture of cultures throughout history, and are separated by clear social, cultural, linguistic or geographic barriers. The stronger genetic differences between closely related populations occur in the northern third of Spain, a phenomenon commonly known as "micro-differentiation". It has been argued and discussed how this form of genetic structuring can be related to both the rugged landscape and the ancient societies of Northern Iberia, but this is difficult to test in most regions due to the intense human mobility of previous centuries. Nevertheless, the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias shows a complex history which hints of a certain isolation of its population. This, joined together with a difficult terrain full of deep valleys and steep mountains, makes it suitable for performing a study of genetic structure, based on mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosome markers. Our analyses do not only show that there are micro-differentiation patterns inside the Asturian territory, but that these patterns are strikingly similar between both uniparental markers. The inference of barriers to gene flow also indicates that Asturian populations from the coastal north and the mountainous south seem to be relatively isolated from the rest of the territory. These findings are discussed in light of historic and geographic data and, coupled with previous evidence, show that the origin of the current genetic patterning might indeed lie in Roman and Pre-Roman sociopolitical divisions.
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- Antonio F. Pardiñas
- Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, Universidad de Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional, Universidad de Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Funcional, Universidad de Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, Universidad de Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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Pardiñas AF, Roca A, Garcia-Vazquez E, Lopez B. Mitochondrial diversity patterns and the Magdalenian resettlement of Europe: new insights from the edge of the Franco-Cantabrian refuge. J Hum Genet 2012; 57:717-26. [PMID: 22895249 DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2012.100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Phylogeography of the mitochondrial lineages commonly found in Western Europe can be interpreted in the light of a postglacial resettlement of the continent. The center of this proposal lies in the Franco-Cantabrian glacial refuge, located in the northern Iberian Peninsula and Southwestern France. Recently, this interpretation has been confronted by the unexpected patterns of diversity found in some European haplogroups. To shed new lights on this issue, research on Iberian populations is crucial if events behind the actual genetics of the European continent are to be untangled. In this regard, the region of Asturias has not been extensively studied, despite its convoluted history with prolonged periods of isolation. As mitochondrial DNA is a kind of data that has been commonly used in human population genetics, we conducted a thorough regional study in which we collected buccal swabs from 429 individuals with confirmed Asturian ancestry. The joint analysis of these sequences with a large continent-wide database and previously published diversity patterns allowed us to discuss a new explanation for the population dynamics inside the Franco-Cantabrian area, based on range expansion theory. This approximation to previously contradictory findings has made them compatible with most proposals about the postglacial resettlement of Western Europe.
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- Antonio F Pardiñas
- Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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Liu JY, Jiang XM, Zhang M, Guo YJ. Analysis of mitochondrial haplogroups associated with TTR Val30Ala familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy in Chinese patients. Int J Neurosci 2012; 122:716-8. [PMID: 22784244 DOI: 10.3109/00207454.2012.711400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Extracellular deposition of abnormal transthyretin (TTR) amyloid fibrils leads to familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP), an inherited autsomal dominant disease. A large number of protein variants, each caused by a different point mutation in the TTR gene have been identified, including TTR Val30Ala. Since the age of onset, organ involvement, and disease progression are highly variable in FAP, even among individuals with the same TTR genetic variation. it is likely that other genetic and environmental factors influence FAP disease phenotype. One study has found a relationship between mitochondrial haplogroups and age of onset of FAP. In this study, we wondered whether certain mitochondrial haplogroups were associated with the cases of TTR Val30Ala FAP in a Chinese population. Mitochondrial haplogroup analysis was performed on a group of patients and their relatives and on a group of healthy controls. All FAP probands were unrelated in their maternal lineages. The chi-squared test for independence found no difference in mitochondrial haplogroup distribution between FAP and control groups. This is the first study reporting frequency and distribution of different haplogroups in FAP in a Chinese population. Although the study group was small, TTR Val30Ala FAP in China seems unrelated to mitochondrial haplogroup.
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- Jing-Yao Liu
- Department of Neurology, First Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
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Moodley Y, Linz B, Bond RP, Nieuwoudt M, Soodyall H, Schlebusch CM, Bernhöft S, Hale J, Suerbaum S, Mugisha L, van der Merwe SW, Achtman M. Age of the association between Helicobacter pylori and man. PLoS Pathog 2012; 8:e1002693. [PMID: 22589724 PMCID: PMC3349757 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2011] [Accepted: 03/27/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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When modern humans left Africa ca. 60,000 years ago (60 kya), they were already infected with Helicobacter pylori, and these bacteria have subsequently diversified in parallel with their human hosts. But how long were humans infected by H. pylori prior to the out-of-Africa event? Did this co-evolution predate the emergence of modern humans, spanning the species divide? To answer these questions, we investigated the diversity of H. pylori in Africa, where both humans and H. pylori originated. Three distinct H. pylori populations are native to Africa: hpNEAfrica in Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan speakers, hpAfrica1 in Niger-Congo speakers and hpAfrica2 in South Africa. Rather than representing a sustained co-evolution over millions of years, we find that the coalescent for all H. pylori plus its closest relative H. acinonychis dates to 88–116 kya. At that time the phylogeny split into two primary super-lineages, one of which is associated with the former hunter-gatherers in southern Africa known as the San. H. acinonychis, which infects large felines, resulted from a later host jump from the San, 43–56 kya. These dating estimates, together with striking phylogenetic and quantitative human-bacterial similarities show that H. pylori is approximately as old as are anatomically modern humans. They also suggest that H. pylori may have been acquired via a single host jump from an unknown, non-human host. We also find evidence for a second Out of Africa migration in the last 52,000 years, because hpEurope is a hybrid population between hpAsia2 and hpNEAfrica, the latter of which arose in northeast Africa 36–52 kya, after the Out of Africa migrations around 60 kya. We previously showed that the population history of H. pylori may be used as a marker for human migrations, including the demonstration that humans carried H. pylori out of Africa 60,000 years ago during their recent global expansions. But how long were humans infected by H. pylori prior to the out-of-Africa event? Here we showed that chimpanzees in Central-East Africa do not possess Helicobacter-like bacteria, as would have been expected for pathogen-host co-evolution over millions of years. Using H. pylori gene sequences isolated from San, a group of click-speaking hunter-gatherers, and numerous other sources, we calculated that humans have been infected with H. pylori for at least 88,000–116,000 years. Phylogenetic comparisons showed similar evolutionary histories for human and H. pylori lineages and suggest that this association stemmed from a single host jump. We showed that hpAfrica2, the most divergent H. pylori population, arose in the San and that their progenitors were the source of H. acinonychis which was acquired by large felines approximately 50,000 years ago. Furthermore, our data provided clear evidence for a recent second exodus Out of Africa in the last 52,000 years which was essential for the formation of the hybrid population that currently infects Europeans.
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- Yoshan Moodley
- Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany
- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Hepatology and GI-Research Laboratory, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Hepatology and GI-Research Laboratory, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Unit, Division of Human Genetics, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand/National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Unit, Division of Human Genetics, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand/National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany
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- Environmental Research Institute and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Hepatology and GI-Research Laboratory, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany
- Environmental Research Institute and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Pala M, Olivieri A, Achilli A, Accetturo M, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Tamm E, Karmin M, Reisberg T, Kashani B, Perego U, Carossa V, Gandini F, Pereira J, Soares P, Angerhofer N, Rychkov S, Al-Zahery N, Carelli V, Sanati M, Houshmand M, Hatina J, Macaulay V, Pereira L, Woodward S, Davies W, Gamble C, Baird D, Semino O, Villems R, Torroni A, Richards M. Mitochondrial DNA signals of late glacial recolonization of Europe from near eastern refugia. Am J Hum Genet 2012; 90:915-24. [PMID: 22560092 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2012] [Revised: 03/22/2012] [Accepted: 04/03/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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Human populations, along with those of many other species, are thought to have contracted into a number of refuge areas at the height of the last Ice Age. European populations are believed to be, to a large extent, the descendants of the inhabitants of these refugia, and some extant mtDNA lineages can be traced to refugia in Franco-Cantabria (haplogroups H1, H3, V, and U5b1), the Italian Peninsula (U5b3), and the East European Plain (U4 and U5a). Parts of the Near East, such as the Levant, were also continuously inhabited throughout the Last Glacial Maximum, but unlike western and eastern Europe, no archaeological or genetic evidence for Late Glacial expansions into Europe from the Near East has hitherto been discovered. Here we report, on the basis of an enlarged whole-genome mitochondrial database, that a substantial, perhaps predominant, signal from mitochondrial haplogroups J and T, previously thought to have spread primarily from the Near East into Europe with the Neolithic population, may in fact reflect dispersals during the Late Glacial period, ∼19-12 thousand years (ka) ago.
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Fu Q, Rudan P, Pääbo S, Krause J. Complete mitochondrial genomes reveal neolithic expansion into Europe. PLoS One 2012; 7:e32473. [PMID: 22427842 PMCID: PMC3302788 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2011] [Accepted: 01/31/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Neolithic transition from hunting and gathering to farming and cattle breeding marks one of the most drastic cultural changes in European prehistory. Short stretches of ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from skeletons of pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherers as well as early Neolithic farmers support the demic diffusion model where a migration of early farmers from the Near East and a replacement of pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherers are largely responsible for cultural innovation and changes in subsistence strategies during the Neolithic revolution in Europe. In order to test if a signal of population expansion is still present in modern European mitochondrial DNA, we analyzed a comprehensive dataset of 1,151 complete mtDNAs from present-day Europeans. Relying upon ancient DNA data from previous investigations, we identified mtDNA haplogroups that are typical for early farmers and hunter-gatherers, namely H and U respectively. Bayesian skyline coalescence estimates were then used on subsets of complete mtDNAs from modern populations to look for signals of past population expansions. Our analyses revealed a population expansion between 15,000 and 10,000 years before present (YBP) in mtDNAs typical for hunters and gatherers, with a decline between 10,000 and 5,000 YBP. These corresponded to an analogous population increase approximately 9,000 YBP for mtDNAs typical of early farmers. The observed changes over time suggest that the spread of agriculture in Europe involved the expansion of farming populations into Europe followed by the eventual assimilation of resident hunter-gatherers. Our data show that contemporary mtDNA datasets can be used to study ancient population history if only limited ancient genetic data is available.
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- Qiaomei Fu
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
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Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Denisova G, Perkova M, Rogalla U, Grzybowski T, Khusnutdinova E, Dambueva I, Zakharov I. Complete mitochondrial DNA analysis of eastern Eurasian haplogroups rarely found in populations of northern Asia and eastern Europe. PLoS One 2012; 7:e32179. [PMID: 22363811 PMCID: PMC3283723 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2011] [Accepted: 01/22/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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With the aim of uncovering all of the most basal variation in the northern Asian mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups, we have analyzed mtDNA control region and coding region sequence variation in 98 Altaian Kazakhs from southern Siberia and 149 Barghuts from Inner Mongolia, China. Both populations exhibit the prevalence of eastern Eurasian lineages accounting for 91.9% in Barghuts and 60.2% in Altaian Kazakhs. The strong affinity of Altaian Kazakhs and populations of northern and central Asia has been revealed, reflecting both influences of central Asian inhabitants and essential genetic interaction with the Altai region indigenous populations. Statistical analyses data demonstrate a close positioning of all Mongolic-speaking populations (Mongolians, Buryats, Khamnigans, Kalmyks as well as Barghuts studied here) and Turkic-speaking Sojots, thus suggesting their origin from a common maternal ancestral gene pool. In order to achieve a thorough coverage of DNA lineages revealed in the northern Asian matrilineal gene pool, we have completely sequenced the mtDNA of 55 samples representing haplogroups R11b, B4, B5, F2, M9, M10, M11, M13, N9a and R9c1, which were pinpointed from a massive collection (over 5000 individuals) of northern and eastern Asian, as well as European control region mtDNA sequences. Applying the newly updated mtDNA tree to the previously reported northern Asian and eastern Asian mtDNA data sets has resolved the status of the poorly classified mtDNA types and allowed us to obtain the coalescence age estimates of the nodes of interest using different calibrated rates. Our findings confirm our previous conclusion that northern Asian maternal gene pool consists of predominantly post-LGM components of eastern Asian ancestry, though some genetic lineages may have a pre-LGM/LGM origin.
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- Miroslava Derenko
- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia.
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Šarac J, Šarić T, Jeran N, Auguštin DH, Metspalu E, Vekarić N, Missoni S, Villems R, Rudan P. Influence of evolutionary forces and demographic processes on the genetic structure of three Croatian populations: a maternal perspective. Ann Hum Biol 2012; 39:143-55. [PMID: 22324841 DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2012.660194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Many Croatian islands are examples of genetic isolates, with low level of heterozygosity and high level of inbreeding, due to practice of endogamy. AIM The aim was to study the genetic structure of two insular and one mainland population through high-resolution phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). SUBJECTS AND METHODS MtDNA polymorphisms were explored in 300 unrelated individuals from Mljet, Lastovo and the coastal city of Dubrovnik, based on SNP polymorphisms. RESULTS All mtDNA haplogroups found in the sample were of typical European origin. However, the frequency distribution of their subclades differed significantly from other Croatian and European populations. MtDNA haplotype analysis revealed only two possible founder lineages on Mljet and six on Lastovo, accounting for almost half of the sample on both islands. The island of Mljet also has the lowest reported haplotype and nucleotide diversity among Croatian isolates and the island of Lastovo, a new sublineage of a usually quite rare U1b clade. CONCLUSION The results can be explained by the effect evolutionary forces have on genetic structure, which is in line with the specific demographic histories of the islands. An additional research value of these two island isolates is the appearance of certain Mendelian disorders, highlighting their importance in epidemiological studies.
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- Jelena Šarac
- Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia.
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Malyarchuk BA. Adaptive evolution signals in mitochondrial genes of Europeans. BIOCHEMISTRY. BIOKHIMIIA 2011; 76:702-706. [PMID: 21639851 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297911060113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Since modern Europeans appear to be descendants of the Late Pleistocene European peoples who survived the last glacial period, it is quite reasonable to expect the presence of adaptive genetic variants that originated in the Ice Age in the modern gene pool of Europeans. To find such adaptive variants, mitochondrial genomes have been analyzed of the modern population from Eastern and Central Europe belonging to haplogroups U4, U5, and V, that diversified during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene periods. Analysis of distribution of nonsynonymous and synonymous substitutions, as well as results of search for radical amino acid changes that arose under the influence of adaptation (positive destabilizing selection) allowed us to detect signals of molecular adaptation in different mitochondrial genes and haplogroups of mtDNA. However, there were very few strong adaptive signals (z > 3.09, P < 0.001) that could be due to the loss of adaptive mtDNA haplotypes during the Holocene warming.
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- B A Malyarchuk
- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 685000 Magadan, Russia.
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Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Grzybowski T, Denisova G, Rogalla U, Perkova M, Dambueva I, Zakharov I. Origin and post-glacial dispersal of mitochondrial DNA haplogroups C and D in northern Asia. PLoS One 2010; 5:e15214. [PMID: 21203537 PMCID: PMC3006427 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2010] [Accepted: 10/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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More than a half of the northern Asian pool of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is fragmented into a number of subclades of haplogroups C and D, two of the most frequent haplogroups throughout northern, eastern, central Asia and America. While there has been considerable recent progress in studying mitochondrial variation in eastern Asia and America at the complete genome resolution, little comparable data is available for regions such as southern Siberia--the area where most of northern Asian haplogroups, including C and D, likely diversified. This gap in our knowledge causes a serious barrier for progress in understanding the demographic pre-history of northern Eurasia in general. Here we describe the phylogeography of haplogroups C and D in the populations of northern and eastern Asia. We have analyzed 770 samples from haplogroups C and D (174 and 596, respectively) at high resolution, including 182 novel complete mtDNA sequences representing haplogroups C and D (83 and 99, respectively). The present-day variation of haplogroups C and D suggests that these mtDNA clades expanded before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), with their oldest lineages being present in the eastern Asia. Unlike in eastern Asia, most of the northern Asian variants of haplogroups C and D began the expansion after the LGM, thus pointing to post-glacial re-colonization of northern Asia. Our results show that both haplogroups were involved in migrations, from eastern Asia and southern Siberia to eastern and northeastern Europe, likely during the middle Holocene.
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- Miroslava Derenko
- Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, Russia.
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Sukernik RI, Volodko NV, Mazunin IO, Eltsov NP, Starikovskaya EB. The genetic history of Russian old settlers of polar northeastern Siberia. RUSS J GENET+ 2010. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795410110153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Kong QP, Sun C, Wang HW, Zhao M, Wang WZ, Zhong L, Hao XD, Pan H, Wang SY, Cheng YT, Zhu CL, Wu SF, Liu LN, Jin JQ, Yao YG, Zhang YP. Large-scale mtDNA screening reveals a surprising matrilineal complexity in east Asia and its implications to the peopling of the region. Mol Biol Evol 2010; 28:513-22. [PMID: 20713468 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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In order to achieve a thorough coverage of the basal lineages in the Chinese matrilineal pool, we have sequenced the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region and partial coding region segments of 6,093 mtDNAs sampled from 84 populations across China. By comparing with the available complete mtDNA sequences, 194 of those mtDNAs could not be firmly assigned into the available haplogroups. Completely sequencing 51 representatives selected from these unclassified mtDNAs identified a number of novel lineages, including five novel basal haplogroups that directly emanate from the Eurasian founder nodes (M and N). No matrilineal contribution from the archaic hominid was observed. Subsequent analyses suggested that these newly identified basal lineages likely represent the genetic relics of modern humans initially peopling East Asia instead of being the results of gene flow from the neighboring regions. The observation that most of the newly recognized mtDNA lineages have already differentiated and show the highest genetic diversity in southern China provided additional evidence in support of the Southern Route peopling hypothesis of East Asians. Specifically, the enrichment of most of the basal lineages in southern China and their rather ancient ages in Late Pleistocene further suggested that this region was likely the genetic reservoir of modern humans after they entered East Asia.
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- Qing-Peng Kong
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
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A new timescale has recently been established for human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages, making mtDNA at present the most informative genetic marker system for studying European prehistory. Here, we review the new chronology and compare mtDNA with Y-chromosome patterns, in order to summarize what we have learnt from archaeogenetics concerning five episodes over the past 50,000 years which significantly contributed to the settlement history of Europe: the pioneer colonisation of the Upper Palaeolithic, the Late Glacial re-colonisation of the continent from southern refugia after the Last Glacial Maximum, the postglacial re-colonization of deserted areas after the Younger Dryas cold snap, the arrival of Near Easterners with an incipient Neolithic package, and the small-scale migrations along continent-wide economic exchange networks beginning with the Copper Age. The available data from uniparental genetic systems have already transformed our view of the prehistory of Europe, but our knowledge of these processes remains limited. Nevertheless, their legacy remains as sedimentary layers in the gene pool of modern Europeans, and our understanding of them will improve substantially when more mtDNAs are completely sequenced, the Y chromosome more thoroughly analysed, and haplotype blocks of the autosomal genome become amenable to phylogeographic studies.
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