Genetic continuity in the franco-cantabrian region: New clues from autochthonous mitogenomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Gómez Carballa, Alberto ^a   Olivieri, Anna ^b   Behar, Doron M ^c   Achilli, Alessandro ^d   Torroni, Antonio ^b   Salas, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c Rambam Health Care Campus ^*  (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONTINUITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 84889727688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032851     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Torroni A, Bandelt H-J, D'Urbano L, Lahermo P, Moral P, et al. (1998) mtDNA analysis reveals a major late Paleolithic population expansion from southwestern to northeastern Europe. Am J Hum Genet 62: 1137-1152.
2. Achilli A, Rengo C, Magri C, Battaglia V, Olivieri A, et al. (2004) The molecular dissection of mtDNA haplogroup H confirms that the Franco-Cantabrian glacial refuge was a major source for the European gene pool. Am J Hum Genet 75: 910-918.
3. Pereira L, Richards M, Goios A, Alonso A, Albarran C, et al. (2005) High-resolution mtDNA evidence for the late-glacial resettlement of Europe from an Iberian refugium. Genome Res 15: 19-24.
4. Álvarez-Iglesias V, Mosquera-Miguel A, Cerezo M, Quintáns B, Zarrabeitia MT, et al. (2009) New population and phylogenetic features of the internal variation within mitochondrial DNA macro-haplogroup R0. PLoS One 4: e5112.
5. Izagirre N, de la Rua C, (1999) A mtDNA analysis in ancient Basque populations: implications for haplogroup V as a marker for a major paleolithic expansion from southwestern Europe. Am J Hum Genet 65: 199-207.
6. García O, Fregel R, Larruga JM, Álvarez V, Yurrebaso I, et al. (2011) Using mitochondrial DNA to test the hypothesis of a European post-glacial human recolonization from the Franco-Cantabrian refuge. Heredity 106: 37-45.
7. Seoane M, Mosquera-Miguel A, González T, Fraga M, Salas A, et al. (2011) The mitochondrial genome is a "genetic sanctuary" during the oncogenic process. PLoS One 6: e23327.
8. Cerezo M, Bandelt H-J, Martin-Guerrero I, Ardanaz M, Vega A, et al. (2009) High mitochondrial DNA stability in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. PLoS One 4: e7902.
9. van Oven M, Kayser M, (2009) Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation. Hum Mutat 30: E386-394.
10. Soares P, Ermini L, Thomson N, Mormina M, Rito T, et al. (2009) Correcting for purifying selection: an improved human mitochondrial molecular clock. Am J Hum Genet 84: 740-759.
11. Saillard J, Forster P, Lynnerup N, Bandelt H-J, Nørby S, (2000) mtDNA variation among Greenland Eskimos: the edge of the Beringian expansion. Am J Hum Genet 67: 718-726.
12. Yang Z, (1997) PAML: a program package for phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood. Comput Appl Biosci 13: 555-556.
13. Moreau C, Vezina H, Yotova V, Hamon R, de Knijff P, et al. (2009) Genetic heterogeneity in regional populations of Quebec-parental lineages in the Gaspe Peninsula. Am J Phys Anthropol 139: 512-522.
14. Laayouni H, Calafell F, Bertranpetit J, (2010) A genome-wide survey does not show the genetic distinctiveness of Basques. Hum Genet 127: 455-458.
15. Andrews RM, Kubacka I, Chinnery PF, Lightowlers RN, Turnbull DM, et al. (1999) Reanalysis and revision of the Cambridge reference sequence for human mitochondrial DNA. Nat Genet 23: 147.