Authors: Paul Brotherton; Wolfgang Haak; Jennifer Templeton; Guido Brandt; Julien Soubrier; Christina Jane Adler; Stephen M. Richards; Clio Der Sarkissian; Robert Ganslmeier; Susanne Friederich; Veit Dresely; Mannis van Oven; Rosalie Kenyon; Mark B. Van der Hoek; Jonas Korlach; Khai Luong; Simon Y.W. Ho; Lluis Quintana-Murci; Doron M. Behar; Harald Meller; Kurt W. Alt; Alan Cooper; Syama Adhikarla; Arun Kumar Ganesh Prasad; Ramasamy Pitchappan; Arun Varatharajan Santhakumari; Elena Balanovska; Oleg Balanovsky; Jaume Bertranpetit; David Comas; Begoña Martínez-Cruz; Marta Melé; Andrew C. Clarke; Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith; Matthew C. Dulik; Jill B. Gaieski; Amanda C. Owings; Theodore G. Schurr; Miguel G. Vilar; Angela Hobbs; Himla Soodyall; Asif Javed; Laxmi Parida; Daniel E. Platt; Ajay K. Royyuru; Li Jin; Shilin Li; Matthew E. Kaplan; Nirav C. Merchant; R John Mitchell; Colin Renfrew; Daniela R. Lacerda; Fabrício R Santos; David F. Soria Hernanz; R Spencer Wells; Pandikumar Swamikrishnan; Chris Tyler-Smith; Pedro Paulo Vieira; Janet S. Ziegle

Venue: Nature Communications

Type: Publication

Abstract: Haplogroup H dominates present-day Western European mitochondrial DNA variability (>40%), yet was less common (~19%) among Early Neolithic farmers (~5450 BC) and virtually absent in Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. Here we investigate this major component of the maternal population history of modern Europeans and sequence 39 complete haplogroup H mitochondrial genomes from ancient human remains. We then compare this 'real-time' genetic data with cultural changes taking place between the Early Neolithic (~5450 BC) and Bronze Age (~2200 BC) in Centra... (read more)

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2656