SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGINS
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TITLE COMMENTS 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
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TITLE COMMENTS Surnames, Genes and Genealogy BBC Radio article - Personal saga of Dr. Brian Sykes
tracing his SYKES surname via traditional genealogical
records and DNAGenetic 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 (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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TITLE COMMENTS The Eurasian Heartland: A continental perspective on Y-chromosome diversity
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TITLE COMMENTS Mitochondrial Genotype Associated with French Caucasian Centenarians
(1998)French-Canadian Beginnings Clan of Helena (OA Forum) -
TITLE COMMENTS Beginning German Research German Interest Genealogy -
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TITLE COMMENTS 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
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TITLE COMMENTS (2000) 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 (2001) 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)A Y-Chromosome Signature of hegemony in Gaelic Ireland
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TITLE COMMENTS Y Chromosomes of Jewish Priests
(1997, Hammer et al.,Nature)3 page pdf Why Y ? The Y Chromosome in the study of human evolution, migration and prehistory
(1998, Bradman & Thomas,Science Spectra)Origins of Old Testament priests
(1998, Thomas et al.,Nature)2 page pdf The DNA Chain of Tradition: The Discovery of the "Cohen Gene" Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba—the “Black Jews of Southern Africa”
(2000, Thomas et al.,AJHG)13 page pdf In DNA, New Clues to Jewish Roots
(2002, Wade,NYT)Founding Mothers of Jewish Communities: Geographically Separated Jewish Groups Were Independently Founded by Very Few Female Ancestors
(2002, Thomas et al.,AJHG)10 page pdf The Fallacy of Biological Judaism
(2003, Pollack)2 page pdf DNA and the Sephardic Diaspora: Spanish and Portuguese Jews in Europe
(2003, Lavender)Multiple Origins of Ashkenazi Levites: Y Chromosome Evidence for Both Near Eastern and European Ancestries
(2003, Behar et al.,AJHG)12 page pdf -- In contrast to the Cohanim the Levites appear to have a much more recent origin. Beginning Jewish Research
(2003,Ancestry)Y chromosome evidence for a founder effect in Ashkenazi Jews
(2004, Nebel et al.,EJHG)4 page pdf MtDNA evidence for a genetic bottleneck in the early history of the Ashkenazi Jewish population
(2004, Behar et al.,EJHG)10 page pdf A Mosaic of People: The Jewish Story and a Reassessment of the DNA Evidence
(2005, Levy-Coffman,JGG)22 page pdf The Multiple Meanings of Jewish Genes
(2005, Kahn,CMP)15 page pdf New Light on Origins of Ashkenazi in Europe
(2006, Wade,NYT)Love You, K2a2a, Whoever You Are
(2006, Harmon,NYT)The Matrilineal Ancestry of Ashkenazi Jewry: Portrait of a Recent Founder Event
(2006, Behar et al.,AJHG)11 page pdf Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence
(2006, Cochran)40 page draft pdf Ashkenazi or Sephardi? DNA Unites Jewish Families, but Raises Questions
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TITLE COMMENTS 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)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 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)mtDNA Affinities of the Peoples of North-Central Mexico
(2000, Green et al.,AJHG)10 page pdf (2001, Rangel-Villalobos,RIC) Mitochondrial DNA variation in a Mestizo population from the Southwest Pacific Mexican coasts
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TITLE COMMENTS 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 -
TITLE COMMENTS Origins and Divergence of the Roma (Gypsies)
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TITLE COMMENTS Research in Russia
(2001,Ancestry)(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)Molecular Middle Ages Of The Russian North
(2004)DNA Report Revives Czar Mystery
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TITLE COMMENTS Ander's Son and Erik's Daughter: Starting with Swedish Records
(2003,Ancestry)Saami Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Deep Maternal Lineage Clusters
(1998, Delghandi et al.,Hum Hered)mtDNA and the Origin of the Icelanders: Decipering Signals of Recent Population History
(2000, Helgason et al.,AJHG)Different genetic components in the Norwegian population revealed by the analysis of mtDNA and Y chromosome polymorphisms
(2002, Cavalleri et al.,EJHG)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)Saami and Berbers—An Unexpected Mitochondrial DNA Link
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TITLE COMMENTS Native American Sample Report Lack of founding Amerindian mitochondrial DNA lineages in extinct Aborigines from Tierra del Fuego-Patagonia
(1996, Lalueza et al.,HMG)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)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