Mitochondrial DNA variation and cancer

PK Kopinski, LN Singh, S Zhang, MT Lott… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Variation in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence is common in certain tumours. Two
classes of cancer mtDNA variants can be identified: de novo mutations that act as 'inducers' …

Revising the human mutation rate: implications for understanding human evolution

A Scally, R Durbin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
It is now possible to make direct measurements of the mutation rate in modern humans
using next-generation sequencing. These measurements reveal a value that is …

Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

CC Wang, HY Yeh, AN Popov, HQ Zhang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people,. Here we report genome …

Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age

N Patterson, M Isakov, T Booth, L Büster, CE Fischer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Present-day people from England and Wales have more ancestry derived from early
European farmers (EEF) than did people of the Early Bronze Age 1. To understand this, here …

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

I Olalde, S Mallick, N Patterson, N Rohland… - Science, 2019 - science.org
We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the
largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect …

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

I Olalde, S Brace, ME Allentoft, I Armit, K Kristiansen… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and
central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled …

Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

I Lazaridis, D Nadel, G Rollefson, DC Merrett… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 44 ancient Near Easterners ranging in time
between~ 12,000 and 1,400 bc, from Natufian hunter–gatherers to Bronze Age farmers. We …

Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago

CM Schlebusch, H Malmström, T Günther, P Sjödin… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Southern Africa is consistently placed as a potential region for the evolution of Homo
sapiens. We present genome sequences, up to 13x coverage, from seven ancient …

HaploGrep 2: mitochondrial haplogroup classification in the era of high-throughput sequencing

H Weissensteiner, D Pacher… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) profiles can be classified into phylogenetic clusters
(haplogroups), which is of great relevance for evolutionary, forensic and medical genetics …