Mitochondrial variability in the Mediterranean area: a complex stage for human migrations

New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

(2017) Jean-Jacques Hublin et al.   NATURE

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia

(2017) Kay Prüfer et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods

(2017) Verena J. Schuenemann et al.   Nature Communications

The ancient cline of haplogroup K implies that the Neolithic transition in Europe was mainly demic

(2017) Neus Isern et al.   Scientific Reports

Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe

(2016) Cosimo Posth et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genomic Evidence Establishes Anatolia as the Source of the European Neolithic Gene Pool

(2016) Ayça Omrak et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genes mirror migrations and cultures in prehistoric Europe — a population genomic perspective

(2016) Torsten Günther et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Six complete mitochondrial genomes from Early Bronze Age humans in the North Caucasus

(2016) A.S. Sokolov et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

(2016) Iosif Lazaridis et al.   NATURE

The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

(2016) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

HaploGrep 2: mitochondrial haplogroup classification in the era of high-throughput sequencing

(2016) Hansi Weissensteiner et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

(2016) Zuzana Hofmanová et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons

(2016) Rui Martiniano et al.   Nature Communications

A European Mitochondrial Haplotype Identified in Ancient Phoenician Remains from Carthage, North Africa

(2016) Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith et al.   PLoS One

Meta-Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Variation in the Iberian Peninsula

(2016) Ruth Barral-Arca et al.   PLoS One

Variability and distribution ofCOL1A2(type I collagen) polymorphisms in the central-eastern Mediterranean Basin

(2015) Gabriele Scorrano et al.   ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

The Greeks in the West: genetic signatures of the Hellenic colonisation in southern Italy and Sicily

(2015) Sergio Tofanelli et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The Italian genome reflects the history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin

(2015) Giovanni Fiorito et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Portuguese mitochondrial DNA genetic diversity—An update and a phylogenetic revision

(2015) Sofia L. Marques et al.   Forensic Science International-Genetics

Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

(2015) Iain Mathieson et al.   NATURE

Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

(2015) Wolfgang Haak et al.   NATURE

Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

(2015) Morten E. Allentoft et al.   NATURE

A global reference for human genetic variation

(2015) Richard A. Gibbs et al.   NATURE

Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques

(2015) Torsten Günther et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Human population dynamics in Europe over the Last Glacial Maximum

(2015) Miikka Tallavaara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient DNA in the Cantabrian fringe populations: A mtDNA study from Prehistory to Late Antiquity

(2015) Concepción de-la-Rua et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians

(2015) Eppie R. Jones et al.   Nature Communications

Early Holocenic and Historic mtDNA African Signatures in the Iberian Peninsula: The Andalusian Region as a Paradigm

(2015) Candela L. Hernández et al.   PLoS One

Human maternal heritage in Andalusia (Spain): its composition reveals high internal complexity and distinctive influences of mtDNA haplogroups U6 and L in the western and eastern side of region

(2014) Candela L Hernández et al.   BMC GENETICS

Mitochondrial DNA control region analysis of three ethnic groups in the Republic of Macedonia

(2014) Renata Jankova-Ajanovska et al.   Forensic Science International-Genetics

Traces of medieval migrations in a socially stratified population from Northern Italy. Evidence from uniparental markers and deep-rooted pedigrees

(2014) A Boattini et al.   HEREDITY

Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

(2014) Iosif Lazaridis et al.   NATURE

The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

(2014) Tom Higham et al.   NATURE

A Genome-Wide Study of Modern-Day Tuscans: Revisiting Herodotus's Theory on the Origin of the Etruscans

(2014) Jacobo Pardo-Seco et al.   PLoS One

Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years

(2014) A. Seguin-Orlando et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic Diversity and Admixture Differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian Foragers and Farmers

(2014) P. Skoglund et al.   SCIENCE

Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory

(2014) Cristina Gamba et al.   Nature Communications

Ancient DNA Analysis of 8000 B.C. Near Eastern Farmers Supports an Early Neolithic Pioneer Maritime Colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands

(2014) Eva Fernández et al.   PLoS Genetics

A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

(2013) Qiaomei Fu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An update to MitoTool: Using a new scoring system for faster mtDNA haplogroup determination

(2013) Long Fan et al.   MITOCHONDRION

Y-Chromosome and mtDNA Genetics Reveal Significant Contrasts in Affinities of Modern Middle Eastern Populations with European and African Populations

(2013) Danielle A. Badro et al.   PLoS One

2000 Years of Parallel Societies in Stone Age Central Europe

(2013) R. Bollongino et al.   SCIENCE

A European population in Minoan Bronze Age Crete

(2013) Jeffery R. Hughey et al.   Nature Communications

A “Copernican” Reassessment of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Tree from its Root

(2012) Doron M. Behar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Reconstructing ancient mitochondrial DNA links between Africa and Europe

(2012) M. Cerezo et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Ancient DNA from Hunter-Gatherer and Farmer Groups from Northern Spain Supports a Random Dispersion Model for the Neolithic Expansion into Europe

(2012) Montserrat Hervella et al.   PLoS One

Origins and Genetic Legacy of Neolithic Farmers and Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

(2012) P. Skoglund et al.   SCIENCE

The Date of Interbreeding between Neandertals and Modern Humans

(2012) Sriram Sankararaman et al.   PLoS Genetics

The coming of the Greeks to Provence and Corsica: Y-chromosome models of archaic Greek colonization of the western Mediterranean

(2011) Roy J King et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Palaeoanthropology: African origins

(2011) Jean-Jacques Hublin   NATURE

Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behaviour

(2011) Stefano Benazzi et al.   NATURE

The Archaeogenetics of Europe

(2010) Pedro Soares et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

(2010) David Reich et al.   NATURE

Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

(2010) Morten Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Mitochondrial Haplogroup H1 in North Africa: An Early Holocene Arrival from Iberia

(2010) Claudio Ottoni et al.   PLoS One

Mitochondrial Haplogroup U5b3: A Distant Echo of the Epipaleolithic in Italy and the Legacy of the Early Sardinians

(2009) Maria Pala et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Ancient DNA and Family Relationships in a Pompeian House

(2009) Giovanni Di Bernardo et al.   ANNALS OF HUMAN GENETICS

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe's First Farmers

(2009) B. Bramanti et al.   SCIENCE

A Complete Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Sequence Determined by High-Throughput Sequencing

(2008) Richard E. Green et al.   CELL

Correlation between Genetic and Geographic Structure in Europe

(2008) Oscar Lao et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Human origins. The molecular perspective

(2008) Mark Stoneking   EMBO REPORTS

The Etruscan timeline: a recent Anatolian connection

(2008) Francesca Brisighelli et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Differential Greek and northern African migrations to Sicily are supported by genetic evidence from the Y chromosome

(2008) Cornelia Di Gaetano et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation

(2008) Mannis van Oven et al.   HUMAN MUTATION