The peopling of Europe from the mitochondrial haplogroup U5 perspective.

It is generally accepted that the most ancient European mitochondrial haplogroup, U5, has evolved essentially in Europe. To resolve the phylogeny of this haplogroup, we completely sequenced 113 mitochondrial genomes (79 U5a and 34 U5b) of central and eastern Europeans (Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Russia...

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Main Authors: Boris Malyarchuk, Miroslava Derenko, Tomasz Grzybowski, Maria Perkova, Urszula Rogalla, Tomas Vanecek, Iosif Tsybovsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20422015/?tool=EBI