SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGINS
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| Africa Mitochondrial Haplogroup Distribution Map | |
| Civil-rights activist Young finds roots of his African ancestry through DNA | |
| Energized in part by the reparations movement, many African-Americans are exploring their origins. Through study of the slave trade, DNA testing and more, they hope to resolve the problems of today. | |
| Out of Africa? Americans search for ancestry | |
| Genealogy Reclaiming the Past (and Maybe a Continent, Too) | |
| Genetic ancestry and the search for personalized genetic histories | |
| The African-American DNA Roots Project at Boston University | |
| Mitochondrial DNA Genetic Diversity among Four Ethnic Groups in Sierra Leone | |
| Do the Four Clades of the mtDNA Haplogroup L2 Evolve at Different Rates? (2001, Torroni et al., AJHG) |
9 page pdf |
| The Making of the African mtDNA Landscape (2002, Salas et al., AJHG) |
30 page pdf |
| mtDNA transit between West Asia and North Africa inferred from U6 phylogeography (2003, Maca-Meyer et al., BMC Genetics) |
8 page pdf |
| The African Diaspora: Mitochondrial DNA and the Atlantic Slave Trade (2004, Salas et al. AJHG) |
12 page pdf |
| African Haplogroup L mtDNA Sequences Show Violations of Clock-like Evolution (2004, Howell et al., MBE) |
12 page pdf |
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| Surnames, Genes and Genealogy | BBC Radio article - Personal saga of Dr. Brian Sykes tracing his SYKES surname via traditional genealogical records and DNA |
| Genetic evidence for different male and female roles in the British Isles (2001, Wilson et al., PNAS) |
6 page pdf |
| Y Chromosome Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Mass Migration (2002, Weale et al., MBE) |
18 page pdf |
| A Y Chromosome Census of the British Isles (2003, Capelli et al., CB) |
6 page pdf |
| Teeth unravel Anglo-Saxon legacy (2004) | BBC article - combines Stronium/Oxygen analysis with DNA |
| Tracing the Phylogeography of Human Populations in Britain Based on 4th-11th Century mtDNA Genotypes (2005, Töpf et al., MBE) |
10 page pdf - Doggerland refugium poposed |
| Myths of British Ancestry (2006, Oppenheimer, Prospect) |
6 page pdf - Celts not as important as thought |
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| The Eurasian Heartland: A continental perspective on Y-chromosome diversity (2001, Wells et al., PNAS) |
6 page pdf |
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| Mitochondrial Genotype Associated with French Caucasian Centenarians (1998) |
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| French-Canadian Beginnings | |
| Clan of Helena (OA Forum) |
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| Beginning German Research | |
| German Interest Genealogy |
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| Calabria DNA project | |
| We Are Tyrolean! | |
| Italian Research | |
| Clinal patterns of human Y chromosomal diversity in continental Italy and Greece are dominated by drift and founder effects (2002, DiGiacomo et al.,MPE) |
9 page pdf |
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| Geneticists Show That the Irish are a Race Apart (2000) |
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| Y-chromosome variation and Irish origins (2000, Hill et al.,Nature) |
2 page pdf |
| mtDNA and the Islands of the North Atlantic: Estimating the Proportions of Norse and Gaelic Ancestry (2001, Helgason et al.,AJHG) |
15 page pdf |
| Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism: its role in longevity of the Irish population | |
| Genes link Celts to Basques (2001) |
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| The Longue Dureé of Genetic Ancestry: Multiple Genetic Marker Systems and Celtic Origins on the Atlantic Facade of Europe (2004, McEvoy,AJHG) |
11 page pdf |
| If Irish Claim Nobility, Science May Approve (2006, Wade,NYT) |
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| A Y-Chromosome Signature of hegemony in Gaelic Ireland (2006, Moore,AJHG) |
5 page pdf |
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| Jomon Genes:Using DNA, researchers probe the genetic origins of modern Japanese | |
| DNA & the Peopling of Siberia | |
| Phylogeny of East Asian Mitochondrial DNA Lineages Inferred from Complete Sequences (Kong et al.,2003,AJHG) |
6 page pdf |
| The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols (2003, Zerjal et al,AJHG) |
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| Admixture, migrations, and dispersals in Central Asia: evidence from maternal DNA lineages (2004, Comas et al.,EJHG) |
10 page pdf |
| The Hidden History of Men [Ghengis Khan] (2004, Kunzig,Discovery) |
14 page pdf |
| Genetic Study focuses on Asians (2004) | MSNBC article |
| Ghengis Khan (Radio Lab Detective Stories) |
| TITLE | COMMENTS |
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| DNA & Native American Origins | |
| Native American Sample Report | 5 page pdf |
| The Genealogy of Mexico: DNA Surname Project | |
| The Central Siberian Origin for Native American Y Chromosomes (1999, Santos et al.,AJHG) |
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| mtDNA Affinities of the Peoples of North-Central Mexico (2000, Green et al.,AJHG) |
10 page pdf |
| The genetic DNA trace in men: chromosome Y haplotypes in a Mexican population, analyzing 5 STRs (2001, Rangel-Villalobos,RIC) |
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| Mitochondrial DNA variation in a Mestizo population from the Southwest Pacific Mexican coasts (2003) |
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| Fast trains, slow boats, and the ancestry of the Polynesian islanders (2001, Oppenheimer & Richards) |
26 page pdf |
| Origins and dispersals of Pacific peoples: Evidence from mtDNA phylogenies of the Pacific rat (2004, Matisoo-Smith & Robins,PNAS) |
6 page |
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| Origins and Divergence of the Roma (Gypsies) (2001, Gresham et al.,AJHG) |
18 page pdf |
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| Research in Russia (2001,Ancestry) |
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| Mitochondrial DNA variation in Russian populations of Stavropol krai, Orel and Saratov oblasts (2002, Maliarchuk et al.,Genetika) |
Abstract |
| Mitochondrial DNA variability in Poles and Russians (2002, Malyarchuk et al.,AHG) |
23 page pdf |
| Diversity of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups in Ethnic Populations of the Volga–Ural Region (2002, Bermisheva et al., MB) |
11 page pdf |
| Testing hypotheses of language replacement in the Caucasus: evidence from the Y-chromosome (2003, Nasidze et al.,Hum Gen) |
7 page pdf |
| Mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosome Variations in the Caucasus (2004, Nasidze et al.,AHG) |
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| Molecular Middle Ages Of The Russian North (2004) |
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| DNA Report Revives Czar Mystery (2004) |
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| Ander's Son and Erik's Daughter: Starting with Swedish Records (2003,Ancestry) |
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| Saami Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Deep Maternal Lineage Clusters (1998, Delghandi et al.,Hum Hered) |
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| mtDNA and the Origin of the Icelanders: Decipering Signals of Recent Population History (2000, Helgason et al.,AJHG) |
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| Different genetic components in the Norwegian population revealed by the analysis of mtDNA and Y chromosome polymorphisms (2002, Cavalleri et al.,EJHG) |
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| The Western and Eastern Roots of the Saami–the Story of Genetic “Outliers” Told by Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosomes (2004, Tambets et al.,AJHG) |
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| Saami and Berbers—An Unexpected Mitochondrial DNA Link (2005, Achilli et al.,AJHG) |
| TITLE | COMMENTS |
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| Native American Sample Report | |
| Lack of founding Amerindian mitochondrial DNA lineages in extinct Aborigines from Tierra del Fuego-Patagonia (1996, Lalueza et al.,HMG) |
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| The Ancestry of Brazilian mtDNA Lineages (2000, Alves-Silva,AJHG) |
18 page pdf |
| Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in South America and the Genetic History of Andean Highlanders (2003, Fuselli et al.,MBE) |
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| New World Newcomers: Men's DNA supports recent settlement of the Americas (2003) |
Science Newsarticle |
| Recovery and Identification of Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA Sequences of a 500-Year-Old Inca Mummy | |
| Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Ancient Peruvian Highlanders (2006, Shinoda et al.,AJPA) |
10 page pdf |