A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages

The origins of Ashkenazi Jews remain highly controversial. Like Judaism, mitochondrial DNA is passed along the maternal line. Its variation in the Ashkenazim is highly distinctive, with four major and numerous minor founders. However, due to their rarity in the general population, these founders hav...

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Main Author: Costa, MD (author)
Other Authors: Pereira, JB (author), Pala, M (author), Fernandes, V (author), Olivieri, A (author), Achilli, A (author), Perego, UA (author), Rychkov, S (author), Naumova, O (author), Hatina, J (author), Woodward, SR (author), Eng, KK (author), Macaulay, V (author), Carr, M (author), Soares, P (author), Pereira, L (author), Richards, MB (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Bayes Theorem
DNA Mitochondrial/genetics
DNA Mitochondrial/history
Founder Effect
Genealogy and Heraldry
Genome Mitochondrial
Haplotypes
History 15th Century History
Ancient
History Medieval
Humans
Inheritance Patterns
Jews/genetics
Jews/history
Male
Phylogeny
Phylogeography
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10216/109253
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/109253

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