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Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans

Recent advances in the understanding of the maternal and paternal heritage of south and southwest Asian populations have highlighted their role in the colonization of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans. Fur...

Mait Metspalu, Toomas Kivisild, Ene Metspalu, Jüri Parik, Georgi Hudjashov… in BMC Genetics (2004)

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Erratum to: Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans

Mait Metspalu, Toomas Kivisild, Ene Metspalu, Jüri Parik, Georgi Hudjashov… in BMC Genetics (2005)

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Phylogeography of mtDNA haplogroup R7 in the Indian peninsula

Human genetic diversity observed in Indian subcontinent is second only to that of Africa. This implies an early settlement and demographic growth soon after the first 'Out-of-Africa' dispersal of anatomically ...

Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Monika Karmin, Ene Metspalu, Mait Metspalu… in BMC Evolutionary Biology (2008)

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The genetic structure of south Asian populations as revealed by 650 000 SNPs

Mait Metspalu, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Bayazit Yunusbayev… in Genome Biology (2010)

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Origin and spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7

Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U is among the initial maternal founders in Southwest Asia and Europe and one that best indicates matrilineal genetic continuity between late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer grou...

Hovhannes Sahakyan, Baharak Hooshiar Kashani, Rakesh Tamang… in Scientific Reports (2017)

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“Like sugar in milk”: reconstructing the genetic history of the Parsi population

The Parsis are one of the smallest religious communities in the world. To understand the population structure and demographic history of this group in detail, we analyzed Indian and Pakistani Parsi populations...

Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Qasim Ayub, Niraj Rai, Satya Prakash… in Genome Biology (2017)

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The genetic variation in the R1a clade among the Ashkenazi Levites’ Y chromosome

Approximately 300,000 men around the globe self-identify as Ashkenazi Levites, of whom two thirds were previously shown to descend from a single male. The paucity of whole Y-chromosome sequences precluded conc...

Doron M. Behar, Lauri Saag, Monika Karmin, Meir G. Gover… in Scientific Reports (2017)

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Investigating the origins of eastern Polynesians using genome-wide data from the Leeward Society Isles

The debate concerning the origin of the Polynesian speaking peoples has been recently reinvigorated by genetic evidence for secondary migrations to western Polynesia from the New Guinea region during the 2nd m...

Georgi Hudjashov, Phillip Endicott, Helen Post, Nano Nagle… in Scientific Reports (2018)

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Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations

The genetic origins of Uralic speakers from across a vast territory in the temperate zone of North Eurasia have remained elusive. Previous studies have shown contrasting proportions of Eastern and Western Eura...

Kristiina Tambets, Bayazit Yunusbayev, Georgi Hudjashov, Anne-Mai Ilumäe… in Genome Biology (2018)

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Y-chromosomal connection between Hungarians and geographically distant populations of the Ural Mountain region and West Siberia

Hungarians who live in Central Europe today are one of the westernmost Uralic speakers. Despite of the proposed Volga-Ural/West Siberian roots of the Hungarian language, the present-day Hungarian gene pool is ...

Helen Post, Endre Németh, László Klima, Rodrigo Flores, Tibor Fehér… in Scientific Reports (2019)

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Origin and diffusion of human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267

Human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 is a common male lineage in West Asia. One high-frequency region—encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, southern Mesopotamia, and the southern Levant—resides ~ 2000 km away f...

Hovhannes Sahakyan, Ashot Margaryan, Lauri Saag, Monika Karmin… in Scientific Reports (2021)