Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the northern fringe of the Neolithic farming expansion in Europe sheds light on the dispersion process

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1660, 2015, Pages

  Malmström, Helena ^a   Linderholm, Anna ^b,c   Skoglund, Pontus ^a   Storå, Jan ^b   Sjödin, Per ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^d   Holmlund, Gunilla ^e   Willerslev, Eske ^d   Jakobsson, Mattias ^a   Lidén, Kerstin ^b   Götherström, Anders ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Battle Axe culture; Funnel Beaker Culture; mtDNA; Neolithic; Pitted ware culture

Indexed keywords

HUNTER-GATHERER; MESOLITHIC; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PREHISTORIC;

SCANDINAVIA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTORY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWEDEN;

AGRICULTURE; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 84916240022     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0373     Document Type: Article

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