Vestiges of an Ancient Border in the Contemporary Genetic Diversity of North-Eastern Europe.

ABSTRACT: It has previously been demonstrated that the advance of the Neolithic Revolution from the Near East through Europe was decelerated in the northernmost confines of the continent, possibly as a result of space and resource competition with lingering Mesolithic populations. Finland was among the last domains to adopt a farming lifestyle, and is characterized by substructuring in the form of a distinct genetic border dividing the northeastern and southwestern regions of the country. To explore the origins of this divergence, the geographical patterns of mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal haplogroups of Neolithic and Mesolithic ancestry were assessed in Finnish populations. The distribution of these uniparental markers revealed a northeastern bias for hunter-gatherer haplogroups, while haplogroups

SUBMITTER: Neuvonen AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4488853 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature