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http://eurogenes.blogspot.com.au/201...e-culture.htmlThe haplogroup distribution of the Corded Ware and Unetice cultures included mtDNA lineages U, I and T, as indicated by component loadings in the PCA plot (Figure 1b) and clustered most closely to modern Eastern European populations, such as Czechoslovakia and Latvia. However, while the Corded Ware clustered within extant populations, the Unetice culture clustered outside the modern population haplogroup distribution (Figure 1a). This resulted from it having a higher frequency of the most common European mtDNA lineage, haplogroup H (15%), compared to the Unetice culture (6%). The Bell Beaker culture also fell within the haplogroup distribution of extant populations (Figure 1a), with a very high frequency of haplogroup H (88%), leading to clustering of this culture with modern Western European populations, such as Sardinia and Spain, which also have a high frequency of haplogroup H (Torroni et al. 1998; Achilli et al. 2004).
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