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SUBMITTER: Achilli A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1852723 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Achilli Alessandro A Olivieri Anna A Pala Maria M Metspalu Ene E Fornarino Simona S Battaglia Vincenza V Accetturo Matteo M Kutuev Ildus I Khusnutdinova Elsa E Pennarun Erwan E Cerutti Nicoletta N Di Gaetano Cornelia C Crobu Francesca F Palli Domenico D Matullo Giuseppe G Santachiara-Benerecetti A Silvana AS Cavalli-Sforza L Luca LL Semino Ornella O Villems Richard R Bandelt Hans-Jurgen HJ Piazza Alberto A Torroni Antonio A
American journal of human genetics 20070206 4
The origin of the Etruscan people has been a source of major controversy for the past 2,500 years, and several hypotheses have been proposed to explain their language and sophisticated culture, including an Aegean/Anatolian origin. To address this issue, we analyzed the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of 322 subjects from three well-defined areas of Tuscany and compared their sequence variation with that of 55 western Eurasian populations. Interpopulation comparisons reveal that the modern population ...[more]