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Links to articles on European genetics:

Balkans - Baltic Nations - Basques - British Isles - Eastern Europe - Finno-Ugric populations - Gypsies - Iberian Peninsula - Mediterranean nations - Scandinavia - Western-central Europe - Europe in general - Miscellaneous

Links to articles on Extra-European genetics:

Africa including African Americans - Americas - Arctic populations - Central Asia including Iran and the Caucasus - East Asia - Indian Subcontinent - Middle East including Turkey and the Jewish diaspora - Oceania including Australia

Links to articles on general population genetics

 

Links to articles on European genetics


The Balkans [top of page]

“The evidence of mtDNA haplogroup F in a European population and its ethnohistoric implications” (Tolk et al. 2001)

“Mitochondrial DNA Variability in Bosnians and Slovenes” (Malyarchuk et al. 2003)

“The Peopling of Modern Bosnia-Hercegovina: Y-Chromosome Haplogroups in the Three Main Ethnic Groups” (Marjanovic 2005)

“Review of Croatian Genetic Heritage as Revealed by Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosomal Lineages” (Pericic et al. 2005) 

“Y chromosomal heritage of Croatian population and its island isolates” (Barac et al. 2003)

“Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in three major population groups in Bulgaria” (Zaharova et al. 2001)

“Y chromosome STRs in Croatians” (Barać et al. 2003)


The Baltic Nations
[top of page]

“The Balts and the Finns in historical perspective - a multidisciplinary approach” (Cesnys & Kucinskas 2004) 

“Geographical, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences on Genetic Diversity: Y-Chromosomal Distribution in Northern European Populations” (Zerjal et al. 2001)

“The LWb Blood Group as a Marker of Prehistoric Baltic Migrations and Admixture” (Sistonen et al. 1998)

“Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Analysis in the Lithuanian Population” (Kasperavieiute & Kueinskas 2004)

“Transferrin Variants as Markers of Migrations and Admixture between Populations in the Baltic Sea Region” (Beckman et al. 1998)

“Y Chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA Variation in Lithuanians” (Kasperaviciute et al. 2004)


The Basques
[top of page]

“DNA Polymorphisms Detect Ancient Barriers to Gene Flow in Basques” (Iriondo et al. 2003)

“Insights Into the ‘‘Isolation’’ of the Basques: mtDNA Lineages from the Historical Site of Aldaieta (6th–7th Centuries AD)” (Alzualde et al. 2006)

“An mtDNA Analysis in Ancient Basque Populations: Implications for Haplogroup V as a Marker for a Major Paleolithic Expansion from Southwestern Europe” (Izagirre & de la Rúa 1999)

“MS205 Minisatellite Diversity in Basques: Evidence for a Pre-Neolithic Component” (Alonso & Armour 1998)


The British Isles
[top of page]

“Estimating Scandinavian and Gaelic Ancestry in the Male Settlers of Iceland” (Helgason et al. 2000)

“Evidence of Admixture from Haplotyping in an Epidemiological Study of UK Caucasian Males: Implications for Association Analyses” (Chen et al. 2003)

“Genetic evidence for different male and female roles during cultural transitions in the British Isles” (Wilson et al. 2000)

“The mutation spectrum of hyperphenylalaninaemia in the Republic of Ireland: the population history of the Irish revisited” (O'Donnell et al. 2002)

“A Y Chromosome Census of the British Isles” (Capelli et al. 2003)

“Y Chromosome Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Mass Migration” (Weale et al. 2002)

“A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland” (Moore et al. 2005)

“Y-chromosome variation and Irish origins” (Nature 2000)


Eastern Europe
[top of page]

“The 49a,f Haplotype 11 is a New Marker of the EU19 Lineage that Traces Migrations from Northern Regions of the Black Sea” (Passarino et al. 2001)

“Comparison between the Polish population and European populations on the basis of mitochondrial morphs and haplogroups” (Piechota et al. 2004)

“Gene Pool Structure of Eastern Ukrainians as Inferred from the Y-Chromosome Haplogroups” (Kharkov et al. 2003)

“High-Resolution Phylogenetic Analysis of Southeastern Europe (SEE) Traces Major Episodes of Paternal Gene Flow Among Slavic Populations” (Peričić 2005)

“Homogeneity and distinctiveness of Polish paternal lineages revealed by Y chromosome microsatellite haplotype analysis” (Ploski et al. 2002)

“Mitochondrial DNA variability in Poles and Russians” (Malyarchuk et al. 2002)

“The Relatively Higher Frequency of Mutations G551D and CFTRDEL21KB in Cystic Fibrosis Patients from the Czech Republic Objectively Proves the Celtic and Slavic Descent of the Czech Population” (Macek et al. 1999)

“Y-chromosomal STR haplotype analysis reveals surname-associated strata in the East-German population” (Immel et al. 2006)

“Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in three major population groups in Bulgaria” (Zaharova et al. 2001)


Finno-Ugric populations
[top of page]

“Analysis of 16 Y STR loci in the Finnish population reveals a local reduction in the diversity of male lineages” (Hedman et al. 2004)

“Archaeogenetics of Finno-Ugric speaking populations” (Villems et al. 2002)

“Diversity of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups in Ethnic Populations of the Volga–Ural Region” (Bermisheva et al. 2002)

“On the phylogeographic context of sex-specific genetic markers of Finno-Ugric populations” (Rootsi et al. 2000)

Paternal and maternal DNA lineages reveal a bottleneck in the founding of the Finnish population (Sajantila et al. 1996)

“Phylogenetic Network of the mtDNA Haplogroup U in Northern Finland Based on Sequence Analysis of the Complete Coding Region by Conformation-Sensitive Gel Electrophoresis” (Finnilä et al. 2000)

“Reconstruction of Maternal lineages of Finno-Ugric speaking people and some remarks on their Paternal inheritance” (Villems et al. 1998) 

“Saami and Berbers—An Unexpected Mitochondrial DNA Link” (Achilli et al. 2005) 

“Saami Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Deep Maternal Lineage Clusters” (Delghandi et al. 1998)

“The Western and Eastern Roots of the Saami—the Story of Genetic “Outliers” Told by Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosomes” (Tambets et al. 2004)

“Y-Chromosomal SNPs in Finno–Ugric-Speaking Populations Analyzed by Minisequencing on Microarrays” (Raitio et al. 2001)


The Gypsies [top of page]

“Mutation History of the Roma/Gypsies” (Morar et al. 2004)

“Origins and Divergence of the Roma (Gypsies)” (Gresham et al. 2001)

“Patterns of inter- and intra-group genetic diversity in the Vlax Roma as revealed by Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA lineages” (Kalaydjieva et al. 2001)
 

The Iberian Peninsula [top of page]

“Distribution of HLA alleles in Portugal and Cabo Verde. Relationships with the slave trade route” (Spínola et al. 2002)

“Diversity of mtDNA lineages in Portugal: not a genetic edge of European variation” (Pereira et al. 2000)

(Spanish) Estudio Genético y Biodemográfico del archipiélago de las Azores (Portugal) (Pereira dos Santos 2005, PhD Thesis)

(Spanish) “Genética e historia de las poblaciones del norte de Africa y la península Ibérica” (Bosch et al. 2003)

“High-Resolution Analysis of Human Y-Chromosome Variation Shows a Sharp Discontinuity and Limited Gene Flow between Northwestern Africa and the Iberian Peninsula” (Bosch et al. 2001)

“Micro-geographical differentiation in Northern Iberia revealed by Y-chromosomal DNA analysis” (Brion et al. 2004)

“Mitochondrial portrait of the Cabo Verde archipelago: the Senegambian outpost of Atlantic slave trade” (Brehm et al. 2001)

“Observed R1b Y-DNA Allele Frequencies of Iberian and Non-Iberian Origins” (Tarín 2004)

“Recent Male-Mediated Gene Flow over a Linguistic Barrier in Iberia, Suggested by Analysis of a Y-Chromosomal DNA Polymorphism” (Hurles et al. 1999)

“Reduced genetic structure of the Iberian peninsula revealed by Y-chromosome analysis: implications for population demography” (Flores et al. 2004)

“Y Chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA Characterization of Pasiegos, a Human Isolate from Cantabria (Spain)” (Maca-Meyer et al. 2003)

“Y-chromosome lineages in Cabo Verde Islands witness the diverse geographic origin of its first male settlers” (Gonçalves et al. 2003)


The Mediterranean nations
[top of page]

(Italian) “Analisi molecolare delle popolazioni del Mediterraneo attraverso 11 inserzioni Alu” (Calò et al. 2005)

“Clinal patterns of human Y chromosomal diversity in continental Italy and Greece are dominated by drift and founder effects” (Giacomo et al. 2003)

“The Etruscans: A Population-Genetic Study” (Vernesi et al. 2004)

“Geographic homogeneity and non-equilibrium patterns of mtDNA sequences in Tuscany, Italy” (Bertorelle et al. 1996)

“Geographical structuring in the mtDNA of Italians” (Barbujani et al. 1995)

“HLA genes in Macedonians and the sub-Saharan origin of the Greeks” (Arnaiz-Villena et al. 2002)

Human Y-Chromosome Variation in the Western Mediterranean Area: Implications for the Peopling of the Region” (Scozzari et al. 2001)

“Joining the Pillars of Hercules: mtDNA Sequences Show Multidirectional Gene Flow in the Western Mediterranean” (Plaza et al. 2003)

“Peopling of Three Mediterranean Islands (Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily) Inferred by Y-Chromosome Biallelic Variability” (Francalacci et al. 2003)

“Population Structure in the Mediterranean Basin: A Y Chromosome Perspective” (Capelli et al. 2005)

“Y-Chromosome-Specific Microsatellite Variation in a Population Sample from Sardinia (Italy)” (Ghiani & Vona 2002)


Scandinavia
[top of page]

“Different genetic components in the Norwegian population revealed by the analysis of mtDNA and Y chromosome polymorphisms” (Passarino et al. 2002)

“Geographical heterogeneity of Y-chromosomal lineages in Norway” (Myhre Dupuy et al. 2005)

“Geographical, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences on Genetic Diversity: Y-Chromosomal Distribution in Northern European Populations” (Zerjal et al. 2001)

“High level of male-biased Scandinavian admixture in Greenlandic Inuit shown by Y-chromosomal analysis” (Bosch et al. 2003)

“mtDNA and the Islands of the North Atlantic: Estimating the Proportions of Norse and Gaelic Ancestry” (Helgason et al. 2001)

“mtDNA and the Origin of the Icelanders: Deciphering Signals of Recent Population History” (Helgason et al. 2000)

“The origin of the isolated population of the Faroe Islands investigated using Y chromosomal markers” (Jørgensen et al. 2004)

“A Populationwide Coalescent Analysis of Icelandic Matrilineal and Patrilineal Genealogies: Evidence for a Faster Evolutionary Rate of mtDNA Lineages than Y Chromosomes” (Helgason et al. 2003)

“Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in Inuit and Danish population samples” (Bosch et al. 2003)


Western-central Europe
[top of page]

“Founder mutations among the Dutch” (Zeegers et al. 2004)

“Mitochondrial Diversity in Linguistic Isolates of the Alps: A Reappraisal” (Vernesi et al. 2002)
 

Europe in general [top of page]

“The 49a,f Haplotype 11 is a New Marker of the EU19 Lineage that Traces Migrations from Northern Regions of the Black Sea” (Passarino et al. 2002)

“Africans and Asians Abroad: Genetic Diversity in Europe” (Barbujani & Goldstein 2004)

“Classification of European mtDNAs From an Analysis of Three European Populations” (Torroni et al. 1996)

“Clines of nuclear DNA markers suggest a largely Neolithic ancestry of the European gene pool” (Chikhi et al. 1998)

“A collaborative study of the EDNAP group regarding Y-chromosome binary polymorphism analysis” (Brion et al. 2004)

“Complex Signals for Population Expansions in Europe and Beyond” (Tambets et al. 2003)

“Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages” (Kivisild et al. 1999)

“Disuniting Uniformity: A Pied Cladistic Canvas of mtDNA Haplogroup H in Eurasia” (Loogväli et al. 2004)

“The effect of the Neolithic expansion on European molecular diversity” (Currat & Excoffier 2005)

“The Emerging Tree of West Eurasian mtDNAs: A Synthesis of Control-Region Sequences and RFLPs” (Macaulay et al. 1999)

“The Eurasian Heartland: A continental perspective on Y-chromosome diversity” (Wells et al. 2001)

“Forensic Applications of Y Chromosome STRs and SNPs” (Hammer & Redd 2000)

“Frequency Analysis and Allele Map in Favor of the Celtic Origin of the C282Y Mutation of Hemochromatosis” (Lucotte 2001)

“Genetic Diversity Within the R408W Phenylketonuria Mutation Lineages in Europe” (Tighe et al. 2003)

“Genetic, geographic, and linguistic distances in Europe” (Sokal 1988)

“The Genetic Legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in Extant Europeans: A Y Chromosome Perspective” (Semino et al. 2000)

“Genetic Structure of Mediterranean Populations Revealed by Y-Chromosome Haplotype Analysis” (Quintana-Murci 2003)

“Genetics and the population history of Europe” (Barbujani & Bertorelle 2001)

“Geographical, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences on Genetic Diversity: Y-Chromosomal Distribution in Northern European Populations” (Zerjal et al. 2001)

“Geographic Patterns of mtDNA Diversity in Europe” (Simoni et al. 2000)

“High-resolution mtDNA evidence for the late-glacial resettlement of Europe from an Iberian refugium” (Pereira et al. 2005)

Human Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup J in Europe and Near East (Serk 2004, M.Sc. Thesis)

“Ice Ages and the mitochondrial DNA chronology of human dispersals: a review” (Forster 2004)

“In Search of Geographical Patterns in European Mitochondrial DNA” (Richards et al. 2002)

“Joining the Pillars of Hercules: mtDNA Sequences Show Multidirectional Gene Flow in the Western Mediterranean” (Plaza 2003)

“The Longue Durée of Genetic Ancestry: Multiple Genetic Marker Systems and Celtic Origins on the Atlantic Facade of Europe” (McEvoy et al. 2004)

“Mitochondrial DNA Affinities at the Atlantic Fringe of Europe” (González et al. 2002)

“mtDNA Analysis Reveals a Major Late Paleolithic Population Expansion from Southwestern to Northeastern Europe” (Torroni et al. 1998)

“mtDNA Haplogroups and Frequency Patterns in Europe” (Torroni et al. 2000)

“Mitochondrial DNA variation and the origin of the Europeans” (Comas et al. 1997)

“The Molecular Dissection of mtDNA Haplogroup H Confirms That the Franco-Cantabrian Glacial Refuge Was a Major Source for the European Gene Pool” (Achilli et al. 2004)

“The molecular genetics of European ancestry” (Sykes 1999)

“A Nomenclature System for the Tree of Human Y-Chromosomal Binary Haplogroups” (The Y Chromosome Consortium 2002)

“Origin, Diffusion, and Differentiation of Y-Chromosome Haplogroups E and J: Inferences on the Neolithization of Europe and Later Migratory Events in the Mediterranean Area” (Semino et al. 2004)

The origins of southern and western Eurasian populations: an mtDNA study (Kivisild 2000, PhD)

“The Peopling of Europe from the Maternal and Paternal Perspectives” (Lell & Wallace, 2000)

“Phylogenetic Network for European mtDNA” (Finnilä et al. 2001)

“Phylogeography of Y-Chromosome Haplogroup I Reveals Distinct Domains of Prehistoric Gene Flow in Europe” (Rootsi et al. 2004)

(Finnish) “Saamelaisten alkuperä” (Wiik)

“A Signal, from Human mtDNA, of Postglacial Recolonization in Europe” (Torroni et al. 2001)

Towards the understanding of post-glacial spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroups in Europe and beyond: a phylogeographic approach (Tambets 2004, PhD Thesis)

“Tracing European Founder Lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA Pool” (Richards et al. 2000)

“Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Europe Is Clinal and Influenced Primarily by Geography, Rather than by Language” (Rosser et al. 2000)

“Y chromosomal haplogroup J as a signature of the post-neolithic colonization of Europe” (Giacomo et al. 2004)

“Y-Chromosome Mismatch Distributions in Europe” (Pereira et al. 2001)

“Y-chromosome Polymorphisms and the Origins of the European Gene Pool” (Casalotti et al. 1999)

“Y genetic data support the Neolithic demic diffusion model” (Chikhi et al. 2002)

“Zones of sharp genetic change in Europe are also linguistic boundaries” (Barbujani & Sokal 1990)
 


Links to articles on extra-European genetics


Africa including African Americans [top of page]

“The African Diaspora: Mitochondrial DNA and the Atlantic Slave Trade” (Salas et al. 2004)

“African Y Chromosome and mtDNA Divergence Provides Insight into the History of Click Languages” (Mountain et al. 2003); Corrected Table 1

“Alu Insertion Polymorphisms and Human Evolution: Evidence for a Larger Population Size in Africa” (Stoneking et al. 1997)

“Bantu and European Y-lineages in Sub-Saharan Africa” (Pereira et al. 2002)

“Binary and Microsatellite Polymorphisms of the Y-Chromosome in the Mbenzele Pygmies From the Central African Republic” (Coia et al. 2004)

“Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome and mtDNA variation in Africa: evidence for sex-biased demographic processes” (Wood et al. 2005)

“Different Genetic Components in the Ethiopian Population, Identified by mtDNA and Y-Chromosome Polymorphisms” (Passarino 1998)

(Spanish) Diversitat genòmica a les poblacions del nord d'Àfrica (Fusté 2000)

“Do the Four Clades of the mtDNA Haplogroup L2 Evolve at Different Rates?” (Torroni et al. 2001)

“The Dual Origin of the Malagasy in Island Southeast Asia and East Africa: Evidence from Maternal and Paternal Lineages” (Hurles et al. 2005)

“Estimating African American Admixture Proportions by Use of Population-Specific Alleles” (Parra et al. 1998)

“Ethiopian Mitochondrial DNA Heritage: Tracking Gene Flow Across and Around the Gate of Tears” (Kivisild et al. 2004)

“Ethiopians and Khoisan Share the Deepest Clades of the Human Y-Chromosome Phylogeny” (Semino et al. 2002)

“Evolutionary Correlation between Control Region Sequence and Restriction Polymorphisms in the Mitochondrial Genome of a Large Senegalese Mandenka Sample” (Graven et al. 1995)

“Explanation of the Pattern of P49a,f TaqI RFLP Y-Chromosome Variation in Egypt” (Keita 2005)

“Extensive Female-Mediated Gene Flow from Sub-Saharan Africa into Near Eastern Arab Populations” (Richards et al. 2003)

“Genetic Analysis of African Populations: Human Evolution and Complex Disease” (Tishkoff & Williams 2002)

“Genetic structure in four West African population groups” (Adeyemo et al. 2005)

“Genetics and linguistics in sub-Saharan Africa” (Blench et al. 2004)

(Spanish) “Genética e historia de las poblaciones del norte de Africa y la península Ibérica” (Bosch et al. 2003)

“High-Resolution Analysis of Human Y-Chromosome Variation Shows a Sharp Discontinuity and Limited Gene Flow between Northwestern Africa and the Iberian Peninsula” (Bosch et al. 2001)

“History in the Interpretation of the Pattern of p49a,f TaqI RFLP Y-Chromosome Variation in Egypt: A Consideration of Multiple Lines of Evidence” (Keita 2005)

“HLA genes in Arabic-speaking Moroccans: close relatedness to Berbers and Iberians” (Gómez-Casado et al. 1999)

“Islands Inside an Island: Reproductive Isolates on Jerba Island” (Yacoubi Loueslati et al. 2006)

“Insights into the western Bantu dispersal: mtDNA lineage analysis in Angola” (Plaza et al. 2004)

“Language, Culture and Genes in Bantu: a Multidisciplinary Approach of the Bantu-speaking Populations of Africa” (Van der Veen et al. 2004)

“The Making of the African mtDNA Landscape” (Salas et al. 2002)

“mtDNA Analysis of Nile River Valley Populations: A Genetic Corridor or a Barrier to Migration?” (Krings et al. 1999)

“Mitochondrial DNA Genetic Diversity Among Four Ethnic Groups in Sierra Leone” (Jackson et al. 2005)

“Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Haplotypes Reveal Maternal Population Genetic Affinities of Sea Island Gullah-Speaking African Americans” (McLean et al. 2005)

“MtDNA Profile of West Africa Guineans: Towards a Better Understanding of the Senegambia Region” (Rosa et al. 2004)

“Mitochondrial DNA sequences in single hairs from a southern African population” (Vigilant et al. 1989)

“mtDNA Variation in the South African Kung and Khwe—and Their Genetic Relationships to Other African Populations” (Chen et al. 2000)

“Mitochondrial Footprints of Human Expansions in Africa” (Watson et al. 1997)

“Northwest African distribution of the CD4/Alu microsatellite haplotypes” (Flores et al. 2000)

“Phylogenetic Analysis of Major African Genotype (Af2) of JC Virus: Implications for Origin and Dispersals of Modern Africans” (Takasaka et al. 2006)

“Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa” (Cruciani et al. 2004)

“The Phylogeography of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup L3g in Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade” (Bortolini et al. 2004)

“Phylogeography of the human mitochondrial haplogroup L3e: a snapshot of African prehistory and Atlantic slave trade” (Bandelt et al. 2001)

(French) “Relations génétiques des populations de langues tchadiques parmi les populations péri-sahariennes révélées par l’étude des séquences de l’ADN mitochondriale” (Cerny et al. 2004)

“Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba—the “Black Jews of Southern Africa”” (Thomas et al. 2000)


The Americas
[top of page]

“Alu Insertions and Ethnic Composition in a Brazilian Population Sample” (Teixeira Mendes-Junior & Simões 2001)

“American Indian Demographic History and Cultural Affiliation: A Discussion of Certain Limitations on the Use of mtDNA and Y Chromosome Testing” (Jones 2002)

“American Indian mtDNA and Y Chromosome Genetic Data: A Comprehensive Report of their Use in Migration and Other Anthropological Studies” (Jones 2004)

“Analyses of DNA from Ancient Bones of A Pre-Columbian Cuban Woman and a Child” (Lleonart et al. 1999)

“The Ancestry of Brazilian mtDNA Lineages” (Alves-Silva et al. 2000)

“Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Evidence for Prehistoric Population Movement: The Numic Expansion” (Kaestle & Smith 2001)

“Autosomal, mtDNA, and Y-Chromosome Diversity in Amerinds: Pre- and Post-Columbian Patterns of Gene Flow in South America” (Mesa et al. 2000)

“Brief Communication: Haplogroup X Confirmed in Prehistoric North America” (Malhi & Smith 2002)

“The Central Siberian Origin for Native American Y Chromosomes” (Santos et sl. 1999)

“Characterization of Admixture in an Urban Sample from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Using Uniparentally and Biparentally Inherited Genetic Markers” (Martinez-Marignac et al. 2004)

“Color and genomic ancestry in Brazilians” (Parra et al. 2002)

“Demography, genetic diversity, and population relationships among Argentinean Mapuche Indians” (Goicoechea et al. 2000)

“The Dual Origin and Siberian Affinities of Native American Y Chromosomes” (Lell et al. 2002)

“The Evolution and Genetics of Latin American Populations” (Salzano & Bortolini 2002)

“Extensive mitochondrial diversity within a single Amerindian tribe” (Ward et al. 1991)

“Gene flow across linguistic boundaries in Native North American populations” (Hunley & Long 2005)

“Genetic Analysis and the Peopling of the New World” (Persons 2004)

“Genetic and linguistic differentiation in the Americas” (Ward et al. 1993)

“Genetic demography of Antioquia (Colombia) and the Central Valley of Costa Rica” (Carvajal-Carmona et al. 2003)

“The Genetic Structure of a Tribal Population, the Yanomama Indians. XV. Patterns Inferred by Autocorrelation Analysis” (Sokal et al. 1986)

“Heterogeneity of the Y Chromosome in Afro-Brazilian Populations” (Abe-Sandes 2004)

“High-Resolution SNPs and Microsatellite Haplotypes Point to a Single, Recent Entry of Native American Y Chromosomes into the Americas” (Zegura et al. 2003)

“Interethnic variability and admixture in Latin America - social implications” (Salzano 2004)

“Land, Language, and Loci: mtDNA in Native Americans and the Genetic History of Peru” (Lewis, Jr. et al. 2004)

“Linguistic diversity of the Americas can be reconciled with a recent colonization” (Nettle 1999)

“Microsatellites provide evidence for Y chromosome diversity among the founders of the New World” (Ruiz-Linares et al. 1999)

“mtDNA Affinities of the Peoples of North-Central Mexico” (Green et al. 2000)

“Mitochondrial DNA Analysis in Aruba: Strong Maternal Ancestry of Closely Related Amerindians and Implications for the Peopling of Northwestern Venezuela” (Toro-Labrador et al. 2003)

“Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Mongolian Populations and Implications for the Origin of New World Founders” (Kolman 1996)

“mtDNA Analysis of a Prehistoric Oneota Population: Implications for the Peopling of the New World” (Stone & Stoneking 1998)

“Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome Diversity and the Peopling of the Americas: Evolutionary and Demographic Evidence” (Schurr & Sherry 2004)

“Mitochondrial DNA "clock" for the Amerinds and its implications for timing their entry into North America” (Torroni et al. 1994)

“mtDNA Diversity in Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos: Implications for the Genetic History of Ancient Beringia and the Peopling of the New World” (Starikovskaya et al. 1998)

“MtDNA from extinct Tainos and the peopling of the Caribbean” (Lalueza-Fox et al. 2001)

“mtDNA Haplogroup X: An Ancient Link between Europe/Western Asia and North America?” (Brown et al. 1998)

“Mitochrondial DNA in the Dominican Republic” (Calderón 2002)

“Mitochondrial DNA Studies of Native Americans: Conceptions and Misconceptions of the Population Prehistory of the Americas” (Eshleman et al. 2003)

“Mitochondrial DNA Studies Show Asymmetrical Amerindian Admixture in Afro-Colombian and Mestizo Populations” (Rodas et al. 2003)

"mtDNA Variation in Native Americans and Siberians and Its Implications for the Peopling of the New World” (from Who Were the First Americans? by Schurr & Wallace 1999)

“Mitochondrial Genome Diversity of Native Americans Supports a Single Early Entry of Founder Populations into America” (Silva et al. 2002)

“A Molecular Anthropological Perspective on the Peopling of the Americas” (Schurr 2002)

“Molecular variability in Amerindians - widespread but uneven information” (Salzano 2001)

“Native American Mitochondrial DNA Analysis Indicates That the Amerind and the Nadene Populations Were Founded by Two Independent Migrations” (Torroni et al. 1992)

“Native American Y Chromosomes in Polynesia: The Genetic Impact of the Polynesian Slave Trade” (Hurles et al. 2003)

“Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genetic Variation in the Yanomamö: A Test Case for Ancient DNA Studies of Prehistoric Populations” (Williams et al. 2002)

“The Phylogeography of Brazilian Y-Chromosome Lineages” (Carvalho-Silva et al. 2001)

“A pre-Columbian Y chromosome-specific transition and its implications for human evolutionary history” (Underhill et sl. 1996)

“Reduced mtDNA Diversity in the Ngöbé Amerinds of Panamá” (Kolman et al. 1995)

“A Revertant of the Major Founder Native American Haplogroup C Common in Populations From Northern South America” (Torres et al. 2006)

“Strong Amerind/White Sex Bias and a Possible Sephardic Contribution among the Founders of a Population in Northwest Colombia” (Carvajal-Carmona et al. 2000)

“The Structure of Diversity within New World Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups: Implications for the Prehistory of North America” (Malhi et al. 2002)

“Substantial Native American Female Contribution to the Population of Tacuarembó, Uruguay, Reveals Past Episodes of Sex-Biased Gene Flow” (Bonilla et al. 2004)

“The Use of Mitochondrial DNA to Discover Pre-Columbian Migrations to the Caribbean: Results for Puerto Rico and Expectations for the Dominican Republic” (Cruzado 2002)

“The uses and limitations of DNA based ancestry tests for Native Americans” (Malhi & Eshleman 2004)

“Unexpected Patterns of Mitochondrial DNA Variation Among Native Americans From the Southeastern United States” (Bolnick & Smith 2003)

“Village and Tribal Genetic Distances among American Indians, and the Possible Implications for Human Evolution” (Neel & Ward 1970)

“Y-Chromosome Evidence for Differing Ancient Demographic Histories in the Americas” (Bortolini et al. 2003)

“Y Chromosome Markers and Trans-Bering Strait Dispersals” (Karafet et al. 1997)

“Y Chromosome STR Haplotypes and the Genetic Structure of U.S. Populations of African, European, and Hispanic Ancestry” (Kayser et al. 2003)

“Y chromosome STR haplotypes in four populations from northwest Africa” (Bosch et al. 2000)


Arctic populations [top of page]

“Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in the Aleuts of the Commander Islands and Its Implications for the Genetic History of Beringia” (Derbeneva et al. 2002)

“Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in Yakuts” (Fedorova et al. 2003)

“Genetic Structure of the Aleuts and Circumpolar Populations Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequences: A Synthesis” (Zlojutro et al. 2006)

“High level of male-biased Scandinavian admixture in Greenlandic Inuit shown by Y-chromosomal analysis” (Bosch et al. 2003)

“mtDNA Diversity in Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos: Implications for the Genetic History of Ancient Beringia and the Peopling of the New World” (Starikovskaya et al. 1998)

“mtDNA Variation among Greenland Eskimos: The Edge of the Beringian Expansion” (Saillard et al. 2000)

“Mitochondrial DNA Variation and the Origins of the Aleuts” (Rubicz et al. 2003)

“Mitochondrial DNA Variation in Koryaks and Itel’men: Population Replacement in the Okhotsk Sea–Bering Sea Region During the Neolithic” (Schurr et al. 1999)

“Y-chromosomal evidence for a strong reduction in male population size of Yakuts” (Pakendorf et al. 2002)

“Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in Inuit and Danish population samples” (Bosch et al. 2003)

“Y Chromosome Markers and Trans-Bering Strait Dispersals” (Karafet et al. 1997)


Central Asia including Iran and the Caucasus [top of page]

“Admixture, migrations, and dispersals in Central Asia: evidence from maternal DNA lineages” (Comas et al. 2004)

“Armenian Y chromosome haplotypes reveal strong regional structure within a single ethno-national group” (Weale et al. 2001)

“The Central Siberian Origin for Native American Y Chromosomes” (Santos et sl. 1999)

“Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran” (Nasidze et al. 2006)

“Diversity of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups in Ethnic Populations of the Volga–Ural Region” (Bermisheva et al. 2002)

“Diversity of mtDNA Lineages in South Siberia” (Derenko et al. 2003)

“The Dual Origin and Siberian Affinities of Native American Y Chromosomes” (Lell et al. 2002)

“Genetic Evidence Concerning the Origins of South and North Ossetians” (Nasidze et al. 2004)

“A Genetic Landscape Reshaped by Recent Events: Y-Chromosomal Insights into Central Asia” (Zerjal et al. 2002)

“Georgian and Kurd mtDNA Sequence Analysis Shows a Lack of Correlation Between Languages and Female Genetic Lineages” (Comas et al. 2000)

“Mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosome Variation in the Caucasus” (Nasidze et al. 2004)

“mtDNA Diversity in Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos: Implications for the Genetic History of Ancient Beringia and the Peopling of the New World” (Starikovskaya et al. 1998)

“Mitochondrial DNA Evidence for Admixed Origins of Central Siberian Populations” (Pakendorf 2003)

“Molecular Genetic Diversity of Indigenous Siberians: Implications for Ancient DNA Studies of Cis-Baikal Archeological Populations” (Schurr 2004)

“Phylogeographic Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA in the Nogays: A Strong Mixture of Maternal Lineages from Eastern and Western Eurasia” (Bermisheva 2004)

“The Presence of Mitochondrial Haplogroup X in Altaians from South Siberia” (Derenko et al. 2001)

Towards the Understanding of the Origin of Human Genetic Variation in Eurasia: mtDNA Haplogroup H in the Caucasus (Roostalu 2004, M.Sc. Thesis)

“Traces of Early Eurasians in the Mansi of Northwest Siberia Revealed by Mitochondrial DNA Analysis” (Derbeneva et al. 2002)

“Trading Genes along the Silk Road: mtDNA Sequences and the Origin of Central Asian Populations” (Comas et al. 1998)

“Unravelling migrations in the steppe: mitochondrial DNA sequences from ancient Central Asians” (Lalueza-Fox et al. 2004)

“Where West Meets East: The Complex mtDNA Landscape of the Southwest and Central Asian Corridor” (Quintana-Murci et al. 2004)


East Asia
[top of page]

“African Origin of Modern Humans in East Asia: A Tale of 12,000 Y Chromosomes” (Ke et al. 2001)

“Analyses of Genetic Structure of Tibeto-Burman Populations Reveals Sex-Biased Admixture in Southern Tibeto-Burmans” (Wen et al. 2004)

“Different matrilineal contributions to genetic structure of ethnic groups in the Silk Road region in China” (Yao et al. 2004)

“Distribution of Mitochondrial DNA Intergenic COII/tRNALYS 9 bp Deletion in Iranian Populations” (Alemohammad et al. 2003)

“The Emerging Limbs and Twigs of the East Asian mtDNA Tree” (Kivisild et al. 2002)

“Evolution and migration history of the Chinese population inferred from Chinese Y-chromosome evidence” (Deng et al. 2004)

“Evolution of Pacific/Asian populations inferred from HLA class II allele frequency distributions” (Mack et al. 2000)

“Extreme mtDNA Homogeneity in Continental Asian Populations” (Oota et al. 2002)

“Genetic Evidence for the Proto-Austronesian Homeland in Asia: mtDNA and Nuclear DNA Variation in Taiwanese Aboriginal Tribes” (Melton et al. 1998)

“The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols” (Zerjal et al. 2003)

“Genetic Study of the Paleolithic and Neolithic Southeast Asians” (Oota et al. 2001)

“Human migrations in continental East Asia and Taiwan: genetic, linguistic and archaeological evidence” (Blench et al. 2004)

“Male demography in East Asia: a north-south contrast in human population expansion times” (Xue et al. 2006)

“Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Mongolian Populations and Implications for the Origin of New World Founders” (Kolman 1996)

“Mitochondrial Genome Variation in Eastern Asia and the Peopling of Japan” (Tanaka et al. 2004)

“Natives or Immigrants: Modern Human Origin in East Asia” (Jin & Su 2000)

“Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of a 2,000-Year-Old Necropolis in the Egyin Gol Valley of Mongolia” (Keyser-Tracqui et al. 2003)

“Phylogenetic Star Contraction Applied to Asian and Papuan mtDNA Evolution” (Forster et al. 2001)

Phylogeny of East Asian Mitochondrial DNA Lineages Inferred from Complete Sequences (Kong et al. 2003)

“Phylogeographic Differentiation of Mitochondrial DNA in Han Chinese” (Yao et al. 2002)

“Population structure and history in East Asia” (Ding et al. 2000)

“A Predominantly Indigenous Paternal Heritage for the Austronesian-Speaking Peoples of Insular Southeast Asia and Oceania” (Capelli et al. 2001)

“Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of China: A Caveat About Inferences Drawn from Ancient DNA” (Yao et al. 2003)

“Southeast Asian Mitochondrial DNA Analysis Reveals Genetic Continuity of Ancient Mongoloid Migrations” (Ballinger et al. 1992)

“A Synopsis of Extant Y Chromosome Diversity in East Asia and Oceania” (Underhill 2004)

“Traces of Archaic Mitochondrial Lineages Persist in Austronesian-Speaking Formosan Populations” (Trejaut et al. 2005)

“Y-chromosomal DNA haplogroups and their implications for the dual origins of the Koreans” (Jin et al. 2003)

“Y chromosomal DNA variation in East Asian populations and its potential for inferring the peopling of Korea” (Kim et al. 2000)

“Y-Chromosome Evidence for a Northward Migration of Modern Humans into Eastern Asia during the Last Ice Age” (Su et al. 1999)

“Y-Chromosome Evidence of Southern Origin of the East Asian–Specific Haplogroup O3-M122” (Shi et al. 2005)

“Y chromosome haplotypes reveal prehistorical migrations to the Himalayas” (Su et al. 2000)


The Indian Subcontinent [top of page]

“An Indian Ancestry: a Key for Understanding Human Diversity in Europe and Beyond” (Kivisild et al. 2000)

“ApoB 3’HVR Polymorphism a Genetic Variation in Indian Subcontinent” (Khan et al. 2003)

“Deciphering diversity in populations of various linguistic and ethnic affiliations of different geographical regions of India: analysis based on 15 microsatellite markers” (Kashyap et al. 2004)

“Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages” (Kivisild et al. 1999)

“Demographic History of India and mtDNA-Sequence Diversity” (Mountain et al. 1995)

“Distinctive KIR and HLA diversity in a panel of north Indian Hindus” (Rajalingam 2002)

“Ethnic India: A Genomic View, With Special Reference to Peopling and Structure” (Basu et al. 2003)

“Ethnic populations of India as seen from an evolutionary perspective” (Majumder 2001)

“Female gene flow stratifies Hindu castes” (Bamshad et al. 1998)

“Fundamental genomic unity of ethnic India is revealed by analysis of mitochondrial DNA” (Roychoudhury et al. 2000)

“Gene Flow from the Indian Subcontinent to Australia: Evidence from the Y Chromosome” (Redd et al. 2002)

“Genetic Affinity Among Eight Ethnic Populations of West Bengal and Manipur, India: A Study Based on Six Polymorphic Functional Loci (HLADQA1, LDLR, GYPA, HBGG, D7S8 and GC)” (Chattopadhyay et al. 2002)

“Genetic Evidence on the Origins of Indian Caste Populations” (Bamshad et al. 2001)

“The Genetic Heritage of the Earliest Settlers Persists Both in Indian Tribal and Caste Populations” (Kivisild et al. 2003)

“Genetic structure and affinities among tribal populations of southern India: a study of 24 autosomal DNA markers” (Vishwanathan 2003)

“Genetic Structure and Affinity Among Eight Ethnic Populations of Eastern India: Based on 22 Polymorphic DNA Loci” (Kashyap et al. 2004)

“Genetic variation of ApoB 3' hypervariable region polymorphism among Brahmins of North India” (Khan et al. 2004)

“The Genetics of Language and Farming Spread in India” (Kivisild et al. 2003)

“High-resolution analysis of Y-chromosomal polymorphisms reveals signatures of population movements from Central Asia and West Asia into India” (Mukherjee et al. 2001)

“High-Resolution mtDNA Studies of the Indian Population: Implications for Palaeolithic Settlement of the Indian Subcontinent” (Barnabas et al. 2005)

Human Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup R in India: Dissecting the Phylogenetic Tree of South Asian-Specific Lineages (Karmin 2005, M.Sc. Thesis)

“Independent Origins of Indian Caste and Tribal Paternal Lineages” (Cordeaux et al. 2004)

“Mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals diverse histories of tribal populations from India” (Cordeaux et al. 2003)

“Mitochondrial DNA diversity among five tribal populations of southern India” (Edwin et al. 2002)

“Molecular insight into the genesis of ranked caste populations of western India based upon polymorphisms across nonrecombinant and recombinant regions in genome” (Gaikwad & Kashyap)

“Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans” (Metspalu et al. 2004)

“Multiple Origins of the mtDNA 9-bp Deletion in Populations of South India” (Watkins et al. 1999)

“Negligible Male Gene Flow Across Ethnic Boundaries in India, Revealed by Analysis of Y-Chromosomal DNA Polymorphisms” (Bhattacharyya et al. 1999)

“The Northeast Indian Passageway: A Barrier or Corridor for Human Migrations?” (Cordeaux et al. 2004)

“Phylogeny and antiquity of M macrohaplogroup inferred from complete mt DNA sequence of Indian specific lineages” (Rajkumar et al. 2005)

“Phylogeny of Mitochondrial DNA Macrohaplogroup N in India, Based on Complete Sequencing: Implications for the Peopling of South Asia” (Palanichamy 2004)

“The Place of the Indian mtDNA Variants in the Global Network of Maternal Lineages and the Peopling of the Old World” (Kivisild et al. 1999)

“Polarity and Temporality of High-Resolution Y-Chromosome Distributions in India Identify Both Indigenous and Exogenous Expansions and Reveal Minor Genetic Influence of Central Asian Pastoralists” (Sengupta et al. 2006)

“A prehistory of Indian Y chromosomes: Evaluating demic diffusion scenarios” (Sanghamitra Sahoo et al. 2006)

“Status of Austro-Asiatic groups in the peopling of India: An exploratory study based on the available prehistoric, linguistic and biological evidences” (Kumar & Reddy 2003)

“Tracking the genetic imprints of lost Jewish tribes among the gene pool of Kuki-Chin-Mizo population of India” (Maity et al. 2004)

“YAP, signature of an African–Middle Eastern migration into northern India” (Agrawal et al. 2005)

“Y-Chromosomal DNA Variation in Pakistan” (Qamar et al. 2002)

“Y-Chromosome Lineages Trace Diffusion of People and Languages in Southwestern Asia” (Quintana-Murci et al. 2001)


The Middle East including Turkey and the Jewish diaspora [top of page]

“Black Jews of South Africa - biological and cultural constructions of identity” (2002)

“Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome variation in Ashkenazi Jewish and host non-Jewish European populations” (Behar et al. 2004)

“Distinctive genetic signatures in the Libyan Jews” (Rosenberg et al. 2000)

“DNA Diversity and Population Admixture in Anatolia” (Benedetto 2001)

“Excavating Y-chromosome haplotype strata in Anatolia” (Cinnioğlu et al. 2003)

“Extensive Female-Mediated Gene Flow from Sub-Saharan Africa into Near Eastern Arab Populations” (Richards et al. 2003)

“Founding Mothers of Jewish Communities: Geographically Separated Jewish Groups Were Independently Founded by Very Few Female Ancestors” (Thomas et al. 2002)

“Genetic Evidence for the Expansion of Arabian Tribes into the Southern Levant and North Africa” (Nebel et al. 2002)

“High-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs reveal geographic substructure and substantial overlap with haplotypes of Jews” (Nebel et al. 2000)

“Investigation of the mitochondrial haplogroups M, BM, N, J, K and their frequencies in five regions in Iran” (Houshmand et al. 2004)

“Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes” (Hammer et al. 2000)

“The Matrilineal Ancestry of Ashkenazi Jewry: Portrait of a Recent Founder Event” (Behar et al. 2005)

“MtDNA and Y-chromosome Variation in Kurdish Groups” (Nasidze et al. 2005)

“MtDNA evidence for a genetic bottleneck in the early history of the Ashkenazi Jewish population” (Behar et al. 2004)

“A Mosaic of People - The Jewish Story & a Reassessment of the DNA Evidence” (Levy-Coffman 2005)

“Multiple Origins of Ashkenazi Levites: Y Chromosome Evidence for Both Near Eastern and European Ancestries” (Behar et al. 2003)

“The Origin of Palestinians and Their Genetic Relatedness With Other Mediterranean Populations” (Arnaiz-Villena et al. 2001)

“Reconstruction of Patrilineages and Matrilineages of Samaritans and Other Israeli Populations From Y-Chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variation” (Shen et al. 2004)

“Swimming in the Gene Pool: Israelite Kinship Relations, Genes, and Genealogy” (Roper 2003)

“Testing hypotheses of language replacement in the Caucasus: evidence from the Y-chromosome” (Nasidze et al. 2003)

“Tracking the genetic imprints of lost Jewish tribes among the gene pool of Kuki-Chin-Mizo population of India” (Maity et al. 2004)

“The Trans-Caucasus & the Expansion of the Caucasoid-Specific Human Mitochondrial DNA” (Metspalu et al. 1999)

“Y-chromosome and mtDNA polymorphisms in Iraq, a crossroad of the early human dispersal and of post-Neolithic migrations” (Al-Zahery et al. 2002)

“Y chromosome evidence for a founder effect in Ashkenazi Jews” (Nebel et al. 2005)

“Y-Chromosome Haplotypes in Azoospermic Israeli Men” (Carvalho et al. 2003)

“The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East” (Nebel et al. 2001)

“Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba—the “Black Jews of Southern Africa”” (Thomas et al. 2000)


Oceania including Australia
[top of page]

“Ancient mitochondrial M haplogroups identified in the Southwest Pacific” (Merriwether et al. 2005)

“Balinese Y-Chromosome Perspective on the Peopling of Indonesia: Genetic Contributions from Pre-Neolithic Hunter-Gatherers, Austronesian Farmers, and Indian Traders” (Karafet et al. 2005)

“Comment on: Bing Su et al. “Polynesian origins: Insights from the Y chromosome,” PNAS 97.15:8225-8228 (July 18, 2000)” (Reid 2001)

“The Dual Origin of the Malagasy in Island Southeast Asia and East Africa: Evidence from Maternal and Paternal Lineages” (Hurles et al. 2005)

“Evidence for mitochondrial DNA recombination in a human population of island Melanesia” (Hagelberg et al. 1999); Correction

“Evolution of Pacific/Asian populations inferred from HLA class II allele frequency distributions” (Mack et al. 2000)

“Expanding Southwest Pacific Mitochondrial Haplogroups P and Q” (Friedlaender et al. 2005)

“Gene Flow from the Indian Subcontinent to Australia: Evidence from the Y Chromosome” (Redd et al. 2002)

“Genetic Affinities of the Andaman Islanders, a Vanishing Human Population” (Thangaraj et al. 2002)

“The Genetic Origins of the Andaman Islanders” (Endicott et al. 2003)

Genetic Patterning at Austronesian Contact Zones (Cox 2003)

“Independent Histories of Human Y Chromosomes from Melanesia and Australia” (Kayser et al. 2001)

“Indonesian Mitochondrial DNA and Its Opposition to a Pleistocene Era Origin of Proto-Polynesians in Island Southeast Asia” (Cox 2005)

“Maori Origins, Y-Chromosome Haplotypes and Implications for Human History in the Pacific” (Underhill et al. 2001)

“Matrilineality and the Melanesian Origin of Polynesian Y Chromosomes” (Hage & Marck 2003)

“Melanesian origin of Polynesian Y chromosomes” (Kayser et al. 2000)

“Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genetic Relationships among Pacific Island and Asian Populations” (Lum et al. 1998)

“Mitochondrial DNA sequences in ancient Australians: Implications for modern human origins” (Adcock 2000); Correction

“Mitochondrial Genome Variation and Evolutionary History of Australian and New Guinean Aborigines” (Ingman & Gyllensteen 2003)

“Molecular genetic evidence for the human settlement of the Pacific: analysis of mitochondrial DNA, Y chromosome and HLA markers” (Hagelberg et al. 1000)

“Molecular Relatedness of The Aboriginal Groups of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with Similar Ethnic Populations” (Kashyap 2003)

“Native American Y Chromosomes in Polynesia: The Genetic Impact of the Polynesian Slave Trade” (Hurles et al. 2003)

“Origins and dispersals of Pacific peoples: Evidence from mtDNA phylogenies of the Pacific rat” (Matisoo-Smith & Robbins 2004)

“Peopling of Sahul: mtDNA variation in aboriginal Australian and Papua New Guinean populations” (Redd & Stoneking)

“The Peopling of the Pacific” (Gibbons 2001)

“Phylogenetic Star Contraction Applied to Asian and Papuan mtDNA Evolution” (Forster et al. 2001)

“Polynesian origins: Insights from the Y chromosome” (Su et al. 2000)

“A Predominantly Indigenous Paternal Heritage for the Austronesian-Speaking Peoples of Insular Southeast Asia and Oceania” (Capelli et al. 2001)

“Reduced Y-Chromosome, but Not Mitochondrial DNA, Diversity in Human Populations from West New Guinea” (Kayser et al. 2003)

“South Asia, the Andamanese, and the Genetic Evidence for an “Early” Human Dispersal out of Africa” (Cordeaux & Stoneking 2003)

“A Synopsis of Extant Y Chromosome Diversity in East Asia and Oceania” (Underhill 2004)

“Traces of Archaic Mitochondrial Lineages Persist in Austronesian-Speaking Formosan Populations” (Trejaut et al. 2005)

“Untangling Oceanic settlement: the edge of the knowable” (Hurles et al. 2003)

“Y Chromosomal Evidence for the Origins of Oceanic-Speaking Peoples” (Hurles et al. 2002)

“Y-Chromosome Diversity Is Inversely Associated With Language Affiliation in Paired Austronesian- and Papuan-Speaking Communities from Solomon Islands” (Coz & Mirazón Lahr 2006)
 


Links to articles on general population genetics [top of page]

(French) “L’ADN mitochondrial, le chromosome Y et l’histoire des populations humaines” (Quintana-Murci et al. 1999)

(Spanish) Anàlisi de la diversitat del genoma mitochondrial en poblacions humanes (Martínez & Plaza 2004)

“Analysis of Y-chromosome Variation in Modern Populations at the European-Asian Border” (Malaspina et al. 2003)

“The Application of Molecular Genetic Approaches to the Study of Human Evolution” (Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman)

“Archaic Lineages in the History of Modern Humans” (Labuda et al. 2000)

“A Back Migration from Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa Is Supported by High-Resolution Analysis of Human Y-Chromosome Haplotypes” (Cruciani et al. 2002)

“Branching pattern in the evolutionary tree for human mitochondrial DNA” (Di Rienzo & Wilson 1991)

“Deconstructing the Relationship Between Genetics and Race” (Bamshad et al. 2004)

“Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages” (Kivisild et al. 1999)

“Disentangling the Effects of Demography and Selection in Human History” (Stajich & Hahn 2005)

“Distinguishing human ethnic groups by means of sequences from Helicobacter pylori: Lessons from Ladakh” (Wirth et al. 2003)

“Drift, admixture, and selection in human evolution: A study with DNA polymorphisms” (Bowcock et al. 1991)

“The Effective Mutation Rate at Y Chromosome Short Tandem Repeats, with Application to Human Population-Divergence Time” (Zhivotovsky et al. 2004)

(French) Effets des expansions des populations humaines en Europe sur leur diversité génétique (Mathias Currat 2004, Thesis)

“The Emerging Tree of West Eurasian mtDNAs: A Synthesis of Control-Region Sequences and RFLPs” (Macaulay 1999)

“The Eurasian Heartland: A continental perspective on Y-chromosome diversity” (Wells et al. 2001)

“Features of Evolution and Expansion of Modern Humans, Inferred from Genomewide Microsatellite Markers” (Zhivotovsky et al. 2003)

“The four faces of Eve: hypothesis compatibility and human origins” (Hawks & Wolpoff 2001)

“Genes, peoples, and languages” (Cavalli-Sforza 1997)

“Genetic Analysis of Lice Supports Direct Contact between Modern and Archaic Humans” (Reed et al. 2004)

“Genetic Clues to Dispersal in Human Populations: Retracing the Past from the Present” (Cann 2001)

“Genetic Evidence for Unequal Effective Population Sizes of Human Females and Males” (Wilder et al. 2004)

“Genetic evidence of an early exit of Homo sapiens sapiens from Africa through eastern Africa” (Quintana-Murci et al. 1999)

“Genetic Structure of Human Populations” (Rosenberg et al. 2002)

“Genetic Variation Among World Populations: Inferences From 100 Alu Insertion Polymorphisms” (Watkins et al. 2006)

“Genetics of population isolates” (Arcos-Burgos & Muenke 2002)

“Genomics refutes an exclusively African origin of humans” (Eswaran et al. 2005)

“Haplotypes in the Dystrophin DNA Segment Point to a Mosaic Origin of Modern Human Diversity” (Ziętkiewicz et al. 2003)

The History and Geography of Human Genes (abridged paperback version) (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1994)

“Human Migrations and Population Structure: What We Know and Why it Matters” (Goldstein & Chikhi 2002)

“The Human Y Chromosome: An Evolutionary Marker Comes of Age” (Jobling & Tyler-Smith 2003)

“The Human Y Chromosome Haplogroup Tree: Nomenclature and Phylogeography of Its Major Divisions” (Hammer & Zegura 2002)

“Ice Ages and the mitochondrial DNA chronology of human dispersals: a review” (Forster 2004)

“Identification of the ancestral haplotype for apolipoprotein B suggests an African origin of Homo sapiens sapiens and traces their subsequent migration to Europe and the Pacific” (Rapacz et al. 1991)

“Implications of Biogeography for 'Race' and Medicine” (Tishkoff & Kidd)

“Inferring Human History: Clues from Y-Chromosome Haplotypes” (Underhill 2004)

“Large-scale SNP analysis reveals clustered and continuous patterns of human genetic variation” (Shriver et al. 2005)

“The Levant versus the Horn of Africa: Evidence for Bidirectional Corridors of Human Migrations” (Luis et al. 2004)

“Major genomic mitochondrial lineages delineate early human expansions” (Maca-Meyer et al. 2001)

“Mitochondrial DNA: a tool for populational genetics studies” (Castro et al. 1998)

“Mitochondrial DNA transit between West Asia and North Africa inferred from U6 phylogeography” (Maca-Meyer et al. 2003)

“Mitochondrial DNA variation in human evolution and disease” (Wallace et al. 1999)

“The Mitochondrial Gene Tree Comes of Age” (Richards & Macaulay 2001)

“Natural selection shaped regional mtDNA variation in humans” (Mishmar et al. 2002)

“Network Analyses of Y-Chromosomal Types in Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia Reveal Specific Patterns of Geographic Distribution” (Malaspina et al. 1998)

“A Nomenclature System for the Tree of Human Y-Chromosomal Binary Haplogroups” (The Y Chromosome Consortium 2002)

Non-Neutral Sequence Variation in Human Mitochondrial DNA: Selection Against Deleterious Mutations and Haplogroup-Related Polymorphisms (Moilanen 2003)

“Origin and Diffusion of mtDNA Haplogroup X” (Reidla et al. 2003)

The origins of southern and western Eurasian populations: an mtDNA study (Kivisild 2000, PhD Thesis)

“Out of Africa and Back Again: Nested Cladistic Analysis of Human Y Chromosome Variation” (Hammer et al. 1998)

“Patterns of male-specific inter-population divergence in Europe, West Asia and North Africa” (Malaspina et al. 2000)

“The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations” (Underhill et al. 2001)

“Proportioning Whole-Genome Single-Nucleotide–Polymorphism Diversity for the Identification of Geographic Population Structure and Genetic Ancestry” (Lao et al. 2005)

“A Reanalysis of the Origin of Modern Humans Using the Mitochondrial Control Region” (Noll 2001)

“Recent African origin of modern humans revealed by complete sequences of hominoid mitochondrial DNAs” (Horai et al. 1995)

“Reconstruction of human evolution: Bringing together genetic, archaeological, and linguistic data” (Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1988)

“Recovering the geographic origin of early modern humans by realistic and spatially explicit simulations” (Ray et al. 2005)

“Reduced-Median-Network Analysis of Complete Mitochondrial DNA Coding-Region Sequences for the Major African, Asian, and European Haplogroups” (Herrnstadt et al. 2002)

“Robustness of the inference of human population structure: A comparison of X-chromosomal and autosomal microsatellites” (Ramachandran et al. 2003)

“The Root of the Phylogenetic Tree of Human Populations” (Nei & Takezaki 1996)

“Short Tandem-Repeat Polymorphism/Alu Haplotype Variation at the PLAT Locus: Implications for Modern Human Origins” (Tishkoff et al. 2000)

“Using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers to reconstruct human evolution” (Jorde et al. 1998)

“Why hunter-gatherer populations do not show signs of Pleistocene demographic expansions” (Excoffier & Schneider 1999)

“X-chromosome as a marker for population history: linkage disequilibrium and haplotype study in Eurasian populations” (Laan et al. 2004)

“Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations” (Underhill et al. 2000)

Y Haplogroups of the World (map)