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[Maju]

You may be interested in knowing that a new paper has been published on ancient mitochondrial DNA from a chamber tomb (corridor dolmen) at Prissé-la-Charrière, near La Rochelle. Three individuals, two infants and one young adult produced useful mtDNA, producing the haplogroups N1a, X2 and U5 (the paper says U5b but the HVS-1 sequence rather seems to fit with U5a2a1).

Marie-France Deguilloux et al., News from the West: Ancient DNA from a French Megalithic burial chamber. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2010. (Pay per view).

(Unofficial link to a full PDF copy)

I discuss some the detail of the findings and add some context to it at my blog. Attached image (map) shows Neolithic mtDNA haplogroups as found by sequencing ancient burial remains:

 Neolithic mtDNA.png   118.15K   4 downloads

Full updated ancient DNA listing at Buiding History.

[tiompan]

Maju, on 25 August 2010 - 19:47, said:

You may be interested in knowing that a new paper has been published on ancient mitochondrial DNA from a chamber tomb (corridor dolmen) at Prissé-la-Charrière, near La Rochelle. Three individuals, two infants and one young adult produced useful mtDNA, producing the haplogroups N1a, X2 and U5 (the paper says U5b but the HVS-1 sequence rather seems to fit with U5a2a1).

Marie-France Deguilloux et al., News from the West: Ancient DNA from a French Megalithic burial chamber. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2010. (Pay per view).

(Unofficial link to a full PDF copy)

I discuss some the detail of the findings and add some context to it at my blog. Attached image (map) shows Neolithic mtDNA haplogroups as found by sequencing ancient burial remains:

Neolithic mtDNA.png

Full updated ancient DNA listing at Buiding History.

Great stuff .Thanks Maju .

George