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dc.contributor.authorHervella Afonso, Montserrat ORCID
dc.contributor.authorRotea, Mihai
dc.contributor.authorIzagirre Arribalzaga, Neskuts ORCID
dc.contributor.authorConstantinescu, Mihai
dc.contributor.authorAlonso Alegre, Santos ORCID
dc.contributor.authorIoana, Mihai
dc.contributor.authorLazăr, Cătălin
dc.contributor.authorRidiche, Florin
dc.contributor.authorSoficaru, Andrei Dorian
dc.contributor.authorNetea, Mihai G.
dc.contributor.authorDe la Rúa Vaca, Concepción ORCID
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-13T15:18:21Z
dc.date.available2016-04-13T15:18:21Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-08
dc.identifier.citationPLOS ONE 10(6) : (2015) // Article ID e0128810es
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/17899
dc.description.abstractThe importance of the process of Neolithization for the genetic make-up of European populations has been hotly debated, with shifting hypotheses from a demic diffusion (DD) to a cultural diffusion (CD) model. In this regard, ancient DNA data from the Balkan Peninsula, which is an important source of information to assess the process of Neolithization in Europe, is however missing. In the present study we show genetic information on ancient populations of the South-East of Europe. We assessed mtDNA from ten sites from the current territory of Romania, spanning a time-period from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age. mtDNA data from Early Neolithic farmers of the Starcevo Cris culture in Romania (Carcea, Gura Baciului and Negrilesti sites), confirm their genetic relationship with those of the LBK culture (Linienbandkeramik Kultur) in Central Europe, and they show little genetic continuity with modern European populations. On the other hand, populations of the Middle-Late Neolithic (Boian, Zau and Gumelnita cultures), supposedly a second wave of Neolithic migration from Anatolia, had a much stronger effect on the genetic heritage of the European populations. In contrast, we find a smaller contribution of Late Bronze Age migrations to the genetic composition of Europeans. Based on these findings, we propose that permeation of mtDNA lineages from a second wave of Middle-Late Neolithic migration from North-West Anatolia into the Balkan Peninsula and Central Europe represent an important contribution to the genetic shift between Early and Late Neolithic populations in Europe, and consequently to the genetic make-up of modern European populations.es
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, GCL2011-29057/BOS and grant IT542-10 from the Basque Government to Research Groups of the Basque University System, and (UFI 11/09) from the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. MGN was supported by a Vici Grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and an ERC Consolidator Grant (310372). The archeological work was supported by two grants of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS-UEFISCDI, project numbers PNII-ID-PCCE-2011-2-0013 and PNII-ID-PCE-2011-3-1015. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or manuscript.es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherPublic Library Sciencees
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses
dc.subjecthuman mitochondrial-DNAes
dc.subjecthunter-gathererses
dc.subjectgenomic diversityes
dc.subject1st farmerses
dc.subjectMTDNAes
dc.subjectsequenceses
dc.subjectexpansiones
dc.subjectsupportses
dc.subjectsiteses
dc.subjectmodeles
dc.titleAncient DNA from South-East Europe Reveals Different Events during Early and Middle Neolithic Influencing the European Genetic Heritagees
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees
dc.rights.holder© 2015 Hervella et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedes
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0128810#abstract0es
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0128810
dc.departamentoesGenética, antropología física y fisiología animales_ES
dc.departamentoeuGenetika,antropologia fisikoa eta animalien fisiologiaes_ES
dc.subject.categoriaAGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
dc.subject.categoriaMEDICINE
dc.subject.categoriaBIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


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