Publication Date:
2006-12-16
Description:
Sequencing of 81 entire human mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) belonging to haplogroups M1 and U6 reveals that these predominantly North African clades arose in southwestern Asia and moved together to Africa about 40,000 to 45,000 years ago. Their arrival temporally overlaps with the event(s) that led to the peopling of Europe by modern humans and was most likely the result of the same change in climate conditions that allowed humans to enter the Levant, opening the way to the colonization of both Europe and North Africa. Thus, the early Upper Palaeolithic population(s) carrying M1 and U6 did not return to Africa along the southern coastal route of the "out of Africa" exit, but from the Mediterranean area; and the North African Dabban and European Aurignacian industries derived from a common Levantine source.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Olivieri, Anna -- Achilli, Alessandro -- Pala, Maria -- Battaglia, Vincenza -- Fornarino, Simona -- Al-Zahery, Nadia -- Scozzari, Rosaria -- Cruciani, Fulvio -- Behar, Doron M -- Dugoujon, Jean-Michel -- Coudray, Clotilde -- Santachiara-Benerecetti, A Silvana -- Semino, Ornella -- Bandelt, Hans-Jurgen -- Torroni, Antonio -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Dec 15;314(5806):1767-70.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Universita di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17170302" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Africa
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Asia
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Chromosomes, Human, Y/genetics
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Climate
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DNA, Mitochondrial/*genetics
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*Emigration and Immigration
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Europe
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Female
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Genetic Variation
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Geography
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*Haplotypes
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Humans
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Male
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Mediterranean Region
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Phylogeny
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*Population Dynamics
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Time
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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