The mtDNA Debate

mtDNA Debate Links

1. Archaeology - DNA report (July 1997): an interesting article - a must read !
2. mtDNA - Japan Times (July 1997): article
3. Stoneking - University of Penn. (July 1997): article on the original work
4. Neanderthal mtDNA (1997): short essay looks at the math
5. Neanderthal mtDNA (July 1997): another good article with good links
6. "Recent Advances in Human Biology" (March 1996): interesting book on gene frequencies and polymorphisms in human populations
7. mtDNA Cell article discussed (July 1997): remarkably balanced article
8. Paternal mtDNA ? (March 1999): BBC article
9. Ancient DNA Bibliography of Ancient DNA resources on the net
10. Wolf DNA (June 1997): article on domestication of the Wolf !
11. Mitochondrial clock Resources on mtDNA
12. DNA sequence of the mitochondrial hypervariable region II from the Neandertal type specimen (May 1999): From Krings and Paabo - the team that first succeeded in extracting Neanderthal mtDNA
13. Molecular Analysis of the 29,000 year old Mezmaiskaya Neanderthal Child (March 2000): Nature article.
14. Neanderthal Population Genetics (March 2000): Nature article.
15. Genomic Differentiation of Neanderthal and Modern Humans (April 2000): American Journal of Human Genetics
16. Hypervariable Sites in the mtDNA Control Region Are Mutational Hotspots (August 2000): mtDNA mutations occur preferentially at hypervariable sites in HV1 and HV2?
17. Inadequate use of Hybridization to analyse DNA in Neanderthal Fossils (2001): E.M. Geigl responds to apparent deficiencies in Scholz et al's work (see preceeding article).
18. Mitochondrial Gene Trees come of Age (May 2001): American Journal of Human Genetics
19. Absence of regional affinities of Neandertal DNA with living humans does not reject multiregional evolution. (May 2001):
20. Human Origins and Ancient DNA (2001): Cooper et al try to counter the arguments against OOA that the Mungo Lake mtDNA have raised
21. Statistical Evidence for Miscoding Lesions in Ancient DNA Templates (2001)
22. DNA sequences from multiple amplifications reveal artifacts induced by cytosine deamination in ancient DNA (Oct 2001): Nucleic Acids Research
23. Nuclear and mitochondrial genetic variation in the Yanomamö: A test case for ancient DNA studies of prehistoric populations (February 2002):
24. Re-analysis of Neanderthal mtDNA (April 2002): A must read. Are we in fact related? Mistakes in earlier analyses?
25. Ancient DNA Analyses Reveal High Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Diversity and Parallel Morphological Evolution of Late Pleistocene Cave Bears (August 2002)
26. The Neandertal type site revisited: Interdisciplinary investigations of skeletal remains from the Neander Valley, Germany (October 2002): A second Neanderthal sequenced from the Neander Valley
27. Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals and 24,000-year-old anatomically modern Europeans (May 2003): Cro-Magnon mtDNA HV-I sequenced
28. An early modern human from the Pestera cu Oase, Romania (Sept 2003): another apparently mixed human

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