Federica Crivellaro

TL;DR: The remains from Nataruk are unique, preserved by the particular conditions of the lagoon with no evidence of deliberate burial, and evidence that warfare was part of the repertoire of inter-group relations among prehistoric hunter-gatherers is reported.

TL;DR: The geographic and quantitative analyses of haplogroup and microsatellite diversity is strongly suggestive of a northeastern African origin of E-M78, with a corridor for bidirectional migrations between northeastern and eastern Africa and trans-Mediterranean migrations directly from northern Africa to Europe.

TL;DR: Both the sequence and genome-wide genotype data confirm that this gene has been a target for positive selection among Europeans and shows additional evidence of selection in populations of the Middle East, Central Asia, Pakistan and North India but not in South India.

TL;DR: Having genotyped 2,284 DNA samples from across the Indian subcontinent, it is found that the previously described west Eurasian -13910 C>T mutation accounts for nearly all the genetic variation the authors observed in the 400- to 700-bp LCT regulatory region that was sequenced.

TL;DR: The human genetic diversity of Italy was found to be greater than observed throughout the continent at short and intermediate distances, and accounted for most of the highest values of genetic distances observed at all geographic ranges.