Phylogeography of mitochondrial DNA in western Europe

摘要: For most of the past century, prehistorians have had to rely on fossil and archaeological records in order reconstruct past. In last few decades, this evidence has been substantially supplemented from classical human genetics. More recently, phylogenetic analyses DNA sequences that incorporate geographical information provided a high-resolution tool for investigation prehistoric demographic events, such as founder effects population expansions. These events can be dated using molecular clock when mutation rate haplotypes are known. We previously applied methods sequence data mitochondrial control region, suggest extant western Europe local ancestry Early Upper Palaeolithic, with smaller proportion arriving Near East Neolithic. Here, we describe cladistic notation variation expand upon our earlier analysis present more detailed portrait European record.