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U6 mtDNA

  • 401 members

About us

February 5, 2009 - Project start

March 5, 2009
- A new U6 mtDNA tree by Dr Van Oven:
  • new U6a1a and U6a1b branches
  • the highly recurrent mutation 16519 was removed from the tree
  • new U6a7a1 branch
  • new U6d1 branch
March 26, 2009 - 50th member

May 11, 2009
- A new U6 mtDNA tree by Dr Van Oven:
  • new U6a7b branch
December 19, 2010 - 100th member

December 23, 2010 - Population expansion in the North African Late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 - Luisa Pereira, et al. - BMC Evolutionary Biology

December 3, 2012 - Divorcing the Late Upper Palaeolithic demographic histories of mtDNA haplogroups M1 and U6 in Africa - Erwan Pennarun et al. - BMC Evolutionary Biology

May 19, 2014 - The history of the North African mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 gene flow into the African, Eurasian and American continents - Bernard Sécher et al. - BMC Evolutionary Biology