1. Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa.
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Cruciani, Fulvio, La Fratta, Roberta, Santolamazza, Piero, Sellitto, Daniele, Pascone, Roberto, Moral, Pedro, Watson, Elizabeth, Guida, Valentina, Colomb, Eliane Beraud, Zaharova, Boriana, Lavinha, João, Vona, Giuseppe, Aman, Rashid, Calì, Francesco, Akar, Nejat, Richards, Martin, Torroni, Antonio, Novelletto, Andrea, and Scozzari, Rosaria
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PHYLOGEOGRAPHY , *BIOGEOGRAPHY , *CHROMOSOMES , *PHYLOGENY , *GENETICS - Abstract
We explored the phylogeography of human Y-chromosomal haplogroup E3b by analyzing 3,401 individuals from five continents. Our data refine the phylogeny of the entire haplogroup, which appears as a collection of lineages with very different evolutionary histories, and reveal signatures of several distinct processes of migrations and/or recurrent gene flow that occurred in Africa and western Eurasia over the past 25,000 years. In Europe, the overall frequency pattern of haplogroup E-M78 does not support the hypothesis of a uniform spread of people from a single parental Near Eastern population. The distribution of E-M81 chromosomes in Africa closely matches the present area of distribution of Berber-speaking populations on the continent, suggesting a close haplogroup-ethnic group parallelism. E-M34 chromosomes were more likely introduced in Ethiopia from the Near East. In conclusion, the present study shows that earlier work based on fewer Y-chromosome markers led to rather simple historical interpretations and highlights the fact that many population-genetic analyses are not robust to a poorly resolved phylogeny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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