Saami and Berbers - an unexpected mitochondrial DNA link.

**Cern** · 02-02-2013, 05:54 PM

Sungir several negroid influence.
Saami seem to have very strong affinity with ancient Europeans.

**Útrám** · 02-02-2013, 06:01 PM

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**evon** · 02-02-2013, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by Cern

Sungir several negroid influence.
Saami seem to have very strong affinity with ancient Europeans.

The general rule is, the further North you go, the more "Mesolithic you get" (Scandinavia and Finland being both high in U5b1b1 and V), We primarily see influences from East (Eurasia) and South (Middle east) coming in later...

**Atlantic Islander** · 02-02-2013, 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by evon

The general rule is, the further North you go, the more "Mesolithic you get" (Scandinavia and Finland being both high in U5b1b1 and V), We primarily see influences from East (Eurasia) and South (Middle east) coming in later...

Isn't V generally found at high frequencies in bottlenecked populations too?

**evon** · 02-02-2013, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by Atlantic Islander

Isn't V generally found at high frequencies in bottlenecked populations too?

Of course, the smaller the genepool, the greater the monopoly..

**Mikula** · 07-11-2013, 10:19 AM

mtDNA V is frequent among Catabrians and Saami people.
I belongs to the same haplogroup.
Can I pass for Saami or rather for Cantabrian?

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**Artek** · 07-12-2013, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by evon

The general rule is, the further North you go, the more "Mesolithic you get" (Scandinavia and Finland being both high in U5b1b1 and V), We primarily see influences from East (Eurasia) and South (Middle east) coming in later...

You should also add U4(nearly absent among Saami, but they aren't a model mesolithic population in any way) and C\Z to the mesolithic mitochondrial genepool. At least going after aDNA. Too bad we don't have mesolithic Y-DNA. I wouldn't be surprised seeing such haplogroups like T,Q and C among males ;D