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SUBMITTER: Pala M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3376494 | biostudies-other | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Pala Maria M Olivieri Anna A Achilli Alessandro A Accetturo Matteo M Metspalu Ene E Reidla Maere M Tamm Erika E Karmin Monika M Reisberg Tuuli T Hooshiar Kashani Baharak B Perego Ugo A UA Carossa Valeria V Gandini Francesca F Pereira Joana B JB Soares Pedro P Angerhofer Norman N Rychkov Sergei S Al-Zahery Nadia N Carelli Valerio V Sanati Mohammad Hossein MH Houshmand Massoud M Hatina Jiři J Macaulay Vincent V Pereira Luísa L Woodward Scott R SR Davies William W Gamble Clive C Baird Douglas D Semino Ornella O Villems Richard R Torroni Antonio A Richards Martin B MB
American journal of human genetics 20120501 5
Human populations, along with those of many other species, are thought to have contracted into a number of refuge areas at the height of the last Ice Age. European populations are believed to be, to a large extent, the descendants of the inhabitants of these refugia, and some extant mtDNA lineages can be traced to refugia in Franco-Cantabria (haplogroups H1, H3, V, and U5b1), the Italian Peninsula (U5b3), and the East European Plain (U4 and U5a). Parts of the Near East, such as the Levant, were ...[more]