Batsheva Bonne-Tamir

TL;DR: A resource of 1064 cultured lymphoblastoid cell lines from individuals in different world populations and corresponding milligram quantities of DNA is deposited at the Foundation Jean Dausset (CEPH) in Paris.

TL;DR: Binary polymorphisms associated with the non-recombining region of the human Y chromosome (NRY) preserve the paternal genetic legacy of the authors' species that has persisted to the present, permitting inference of human evolution, population affinity and demographic history.

TL;DR: It is shown that the main indigenous North African cluster is a sister group to the most ancient cluster of European mtDNAs, from which it diverged approximately 50,000 years ago.

TL;DR: A global pattern of haplotype variation and linkage disequilibrium suggests a common and recent African origin for all non-African human populations.

TL;DR: This analysis revealed that a major Paleolithic population expansion from the "Atlantic zone" (southwestern Europe) occurred 10,000-15,000 years ago, after the Last Glacial Maximum, with haplogroup V, an autochthonous European haplogroups most likely originated in the northern Iberian peninsula or southwestern France at about the time of the Younger Dryas.