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SUBMITTER: Ghirotto S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3566088 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ghirotto Silvia S Tassi Francesca F Fumagalli Erica E Colonna Vincenza V Sandionigi Anna A Lari Martina M Vai Stefania S Petiti Emmanuele E Corti Giorgio G Rizzi Ermanno E De Bellis Gianluca G Caramelli David D Barbujani Guido G
PloS one 20130206 2
The Etruscan culture is documented in Etruria, Central Italy, from the 8(th) to the 1(st) century BC. For more than 2,000 years there has been disagreement on the Etruscans' biological origins, whether local or in Anatolia. Genetic affinities with both Tuscan and Anatolian populations have been reported, but so far all attempts have failed to fit the Etruscans' and modern populations in the same genealogy. We extracted and typed the hypervariable region of mitochondrial DNA of 14 individuals bur ...[more]