Investigating mitochondrial DNA relationships in Neolithic Western Europe through serial coalescent simulations.

ABSTRACT: Recent ancient DNA studies on European Neolithic human populations have provided persuasive evidence of a major migration of farmers originating from the Aegean, accompanied by sporadic hunter-gatherer admixture into early Neolithic populations, but increasing toward the Late Neolithic. In this context, ancient mitochondrial DNA data collected from the Neolithic necropolis of Gurgy (Paris Basin, France), the largest mitochondrial DNA sample obtained from a single archeological site for the Early/Middle Neolithic period, indicate little differentiation from farmers associated to both the Danubian and Mediterranean Neolithic migration routes, as well as from Western European hunter-gatherers. To test whether this pattern of differentiation could arise in a single unstructured population by g

SUBMITTER: Rivollat M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5315516 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature