Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in Southern Arabia from the perspective of human mtDNA variation

0380456 - ARÚ 2013 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Al-Abri, A.-R. - Podgorná, E. - Rose, J. I. - Pereira, L. - Mulligan, C. J. - Silva, N. M. - Bayoumi, R. - Soares, P. - Černý, Viktor
Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in Southern Arabia from the perspective of human mtDNA variation.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Roč. 149, č. 2 (2012), s. 291-298. ISSN 0002-9483. E-ISSN 1096-8644
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT ME 917
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80020508
Keywords : mtDNA variation * Arabian Peninsula * migrations
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
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For the purpose of this study we have secured new mtDNA HVS-1 sequences from Southern Oman and Eastern Yemen. In this new dataset we have identified several still unknown haplotypes of the haplogroup R2 and after analysis of whole mtDNA sequences we have reconstructed phylogeny of particular branches of R2. Together with additional specifically Southern Arabian mtDNA genomes we have revealed that the Southern Arabian population underwent an expansion already 12 ka; therefore still before suggested Neolithic migration from the Near East. Further analyses showed that this expansion can really be attributed to an input from the Near East but at a significantly earlier date than originally considered by some archaeologists.
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