The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa

Soares, Pedro; Alshamali, Farida; B. Pereira, Joana; Fernandes, Verónica; M. Silva, N.; Afonso, Carlos; D. Costa, Marta; Musilová, Eliška; Macaulay, Vincent; Richards, Martin; Cerny, V.; Pereira, Luı́sa

doi:10.1093/molbev/msr245

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The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa

Published in Molecular Biology and Evolution • Nov 16, 2011

Authors:

Pedro Soares

Farida Alshamali

Joana B. Pereira

Abstract

Although fossil remains show that anatomically modern humans dispersed out of Africa into the Near East ∼100 to 130 ka, genetic evidence from extant populations has suggested that non-Africans descend primarily from a single successful later migration. Within the human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) tree...

Subject

Haplogroup

Biological dispersal

Out of africa

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