Musilová et al. - 2011 - Population history of the Red Sea-genetic exchanges between the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa signaled in t (original) (raw)

Archaeological studies have revealed cultural connections between the two sides of the Red Sea dating to prehistory. The issue has still not been properly addressed, however, by archaeogenetics. We focus our attention here on the mitochondrial haplogroup HV1 that is present in both the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa. The internal variation of 38 complete mitochondrial DNA sequences (20 of them presented here for the first time) affiliated into this haplogroup testify to its emergence during the late glacial maximum, most probably in the Near East, with subsequent dispersion via in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com).

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