A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11140%2F13%3A10139780" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11140/13:10139780 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3543" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3543</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3543" target="_blank" >10.1038/ncomms3543</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages
Original language description
The origins of Ashkenazi Jews remain highly controversial. Like Judaism, mitochondrial DNA is passed along the maternal line. Its variation in the Ashkenazim is highly distinctive, with four major and numerous minor founders. However, due to their rarityin the general population, these founders have been difficult to trace to a source. Here we show that all four major founders, ~40% of Ashkenazi mtDNA variation, have ancestry in prehistoric Europe, rather than the Near East or Caucasus. Furthermore, most of the remaining minor founders share a similar deep European ancestry. Thus the great majority of Ashkenazi maternal lineages were not brought from the Levant, as commonly supposed, nor recruited in the Caucasus, as sometimes suggested, but assimilated within Europe. These results point to a significant role for the conversion of women in the formation of Ashkenazi communities, and provide the foundation for a detailed reconstruction of Ashkenazi genealogical history.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EB - Genetics and molecular biology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Communications
ISSN
2041-1723
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
4
Issue of the periodical within the volume
October
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000326468600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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