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A predominantly Neolithic origin for European paternal lineages
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posted on 2010-02-11, 16:37 authored by Patricia L. Balaresque, Georgina R. Bowden, Susan M. Adams, Ho-Lee Leung, Turi E. King, Zoë H. Rosser, Jane Goodwin, Jean-Paul Moisan, Christelle Richard, Ann Millward, Andrew G. Demaine, Guido Barbujani, Carlo Previderè, I. J. Wilson, Chris Tyler-Smith, Mark A. JoblingThe relative contributions to modern European populations of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers from the
Near East have been intensely debated. Haplogroup R1b1b2 (R-M269) is the commonest European Y-chromosomal lineage,
increasing in frequency from east to west, and carried by 110 million European men. Previous studies suggested a
Paleolithic origin, but here we show that the geographical distribution of its microsatellite diversity is best explained by
spread from a single source in the Near East via Anatolia during the Neolithic. Taken with evidence on the origins of other
haplogroups, this indicates that most European Y chromosomes originate in the Neolithic expansion. This reinterpretation
makes Europe a prime example of how technological and cultural change is linked with the expansion of a Y-chromosomal
lineage, and the contrast of this pattern with that shown by maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA suggests a unique role
for males in the transition.
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PLoS Biol 8(1): e1000285, pp.1-9Published in
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This article was taken from PLoS Biol 8(1): e1000285. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000285Language
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