Mitochondrial ancestry of medieval individuals carelessly interred in a multiple burial from southeastern Romania.

ABSTRACT: The historical province of Dobruja, located in southeastern Romania, has experienced intense human population movement, invasions, and conflictual episodes during the Middle Ages, being an important intersection point between Asia and Europe. The most informative source of maternal population histories is the complete mitochondrial genome of archaeological specimens, but currently, there is insufficient ancient DNA data available for the medieval period in this geographical region to complement the archaeological findings. In this study, we reconstructed, by using Next Generation Sequencing, the entire mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of six medieval individuals neglectfully buried in a multiple burial from Capidava necropolis (Dobruja), some presenting signs of a violent death. Six dis

SUBMITTER: Rusu I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6353917 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature