The dawn of human matrilineal diversityDoron M Behar
Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa 31096, Israel
Am J Hum Genet 82:1130-40. 2008
..This process was further accelerated during the recent Bantu expansions. Our results suggest that the early settlement of humans in Africa was already matrilineally structured and involved small, separately evolving isolated populations...
- A "Copernican" reassessment of the human mitochondrial DNA tree from its root
Doron M Behar
Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Am J Hum Genet 90:675-84. 2012
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The genome-wide structure of the Jewish peopleDoron M Behar
Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa 31096, Israel
Nature 466:238-42. 2010
..These results cast light on the variegated genetic architecture of the Middle East, and trace the origins of most Jewish Diaspora communities to the Levant...
- Counting the founders: the matrilineal genetic ancestry of the Jewish Diaspora
Doron M Behar
Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
PLoS ONE 3:e2062. 2008
..These findings highlight striking differences in the demographic history of the widespread Jewish Diaspora...
- Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in south and southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans
Mait Metspalu
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia
BMC Genet 5:26. 2004
..The results were integrated and analyzed together with published data from South, Southeast Asia and West Eurasia...
- The Caucasus as an asymmetric semipermeable barrier to ancient human migrations
Bayazit Yunusbayev
Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
Mol Biol Evol 29:359-65. 2012
..Genetic discontinuity between the North Caucasus and the East European Plain contrasts with continuity through Anatolia and the Balkans, suggesting major routes of ancient gene flows and admixture...
- Population genetic structure in Indian Austroasiatic speakers: the role of landscape barriers and sex-specific admixture
Gyaneshwer Chaubey
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
Mol Biol Evol 28:1013-24. 2011
..We propose that AA speakers in India today are derived from dispersal from southeast Asia, followed by extensive sex-specific admixture with local Indian populations...
- African ancestry allelic variation at the MYH9 gene contributes to increased susceptibility to non-diabetic end-stage kidney disease in Hispanic Americans
Doron M Behar
Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa 31096, Israel
Hum Mol Genet 19:1816-27. 2010
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- Divorcing the Late Upper Palaeolithic demographic histories of mtDNA haplogroups M1 and U6 in Africa
Erwan Pennarun
Estonian Biocentre and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
BMC Evol Biol 12:234. 2012
..Both haplogroups have been proposed to show similar geographic patterns and shared demographic histories...
- Distinguishing the co-ancestries of haplogroup G Y-chromosomes in the populations of Europe and the Caucasus
Siiri Rootsi
Evolutionary Biology Group, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
Eur J Hum Genet 20:1275-82. 2012
..No clinal patterns were detected suggesting that the distributions are rather indicative of isolation by distance and demographic complexities...
- A novel 154-bp deletion in the human mitochondrial DNA control region in healthy individuals
Doron M Behar
Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Hum Mutat 29:1387-91. 2008
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- Absence of APOL1 risk variants protects against HIV-associated nephropathy in the Ethiopian population
Doron M Behar
Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Am J Nephrol 34:452-9. 2011
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