A new deep branch of eurasian mtDNA macrohaplogroup M reveals additional complexity regarding the settlement of Madagascar

François-X Ricaut (1, 2) , Harilanto Razafindrazaka (3) , Murray Cox , Jean-M Dugoujon , Evelyne Guitard (4) , Clement Sambo , Maru Mormina (5) , Marta Mirazon-Lahr , Bertrand Ludes (6) , Eric Crubézy (4)

1 AMIS - Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse
2 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3 AMU - Aix Marseille Université
4 LA - Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie
5 Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies University of Cambridge
6 Institut de Médecine Légale - IML (Paris, France)

Current models propose that mitochondrial DNA macrohaplogroups M and N evolved from haplogroup L3 soon after modern humans left Africa. Increasingly, however, analysis of isolated populations is filling in the details of, and in some cases challenging, aspects of this general model.

Domaines: Anthropologie biologique

François-X Ricaut, Harilanto Razafindrazaka, Murray Cox, Jean-M Dugoujon, Evelyne Guitard, et al.. A new deep branch of eurasian mtDNA macrohaplogroup M reveals additional complexity regarding the settlement of Madagascar. BMC Genomics, 2009, 10 (1), pp.605. ⟨10.1186/1471-2164-10-605⟩. ⟨hal-02112816⟩