Major psychiatric illnesses such as mood disorders and schizophrenia are chronic, recurrent
mental illnesses that affect the lives of millions of individuals. Although these disorders have …

Well-resolved molecular gene trees illustrate the concept of descent with modification and
exhibit the opposing processes of drift and migration, both of which influence population …

Human mitochondrial DNA is widely used as tool in many fields including evolutionary
anthropology and population history, medical genetics, genetic genealogy, and forensic …

Hominins with morphology similar to present-day humans appear in the fossil record across
Eurasia between 40,000 and 50,000 y ago. The genetic relationships between these early …

There is currently no calibration available for the whole human mtDNA genome,
incorporating both coding and control regions. Furthermore, as several authors have pointed …

Only a limited number of complete mitochondrial genome sequences belonging to Native
American haplogroups were available until recently, which left America as the continent with …

We present the first Korean individual genome sequence (SJK) and analysis results. The
diploid genome of a Korean male was sequenced to 28.95-fold redundancy using the …

To elucidate the human colonization process of northern Asia and human dispersals to the
Americas, a diverse subset of 71 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages was chosen for …

Tibetans live on the highest plateau in the world, their current population size is
approximately 5 million, and most of them live at an altitude exceeding 3,500 m. Therefore …

Due to its numerous environmental extremes, the Tibetan Plateau—the world's highest
plateau—is one of the most challenging areas of modern human settlement. Archaeological …