Vincent Macaulay
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Macaulay V, Soares P, Richards M
PLoS One
. 2019 Feb;
14(2):e0212311.
PMID: 30779770
When divided by a given mutation rate, the ρ (rho) statistic provides a simple estimator of the age of a clade within a phylogenetic tree by averaging the number of...
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Olivieri A, Sidore C, Achilli A, Angius A, Posth C, Furtwangler A, et al.
Mol Biol Evol
. 2017 Feb;
34(5):1230-1239.
PMID: 28177087
Sardinians are "outliers" in the European genetic landscape and, according to paleogenomic nuclear data, the closest to early European Neolithic farmers. To learn more about their genetic ancestry, we analyzed...
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Soares P, Trejaut J, Rito T, Cavadas B, Hill C, Eng K, et al.
Hum Genet
. 2016 Jan;
135(3):309-26.
PMID: 26781090
There are two very different interpretations of the prehistory of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA), with genetic evidence invoked in support of both. The "out-of-Taiwan" model proposes a major Late Holocene...
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Costa M, Pereira J, Pala M, Fernandes V, Olivieri A, Achilli A, et al.
Nat Commun
. 2013 Oct;
4:2543.
PMID: 24104924
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...
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Soares P, Abrantes D, Rito T, Thomson N, Radivojac P, Li B, et al.
PLoS One
. 2013 Mar;
8(3):e58993.
PMID: 23533597
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), the circular DNA molecule inside the mitochondria of all eukaryotic cells, has been shown to be under the effect of purifying selection in several species. Traditional testing...
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Pala M, Olivieri A, Achilli A, Accetturo M, Metspalu E, Reidla M, et al.
Am J Hum Genet
. 2012 May;
90(5):915-24.
PMID: 22560092
Human populations, along with those of many other species, are thought to have contracted into a number of refuge areas at the height of the last Ice Age. European populations...
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Soares P, Alshamali F, Pereira J, Fernandes V, Silva N, Afonso C, et al.
Mol Biol Evol
. 2011 Nov;
29(3):915-27.
PMID: 22096215
Although fossil remains show that anatomically modern humans dispersed out of Africa into the Near East ∼100 to 130 ka, genetic evidence from extant populations has suggested that non-Africans descend...
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Soares P, Rito T, Trejaut J, Mormina M, Hill C, Tinkler-Hundal E, et al.
Am J Hum Genet
. 2011 Feb;
88(2):239-47.
PMID: 21295281
The "Polynesian motif" defines a lineage of human mtDNA that is restricted to Austronesian-speaking populations and is almost fixed in Polynesians. It is widely thought to support a rapid dispersal...
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Pereira L, Silva N, Franco-Duarte R, Fernandes V, Pereira J, Costa M, et al.
BMC Evol Biol
. 2010 Dec;
10:390.
PMID: 21176127
Background: The archaeology of North Africa remains enigmatic, with questions of population continuity versus discontinuity taking centre-stage. Debates have focused on population transitions between the bearers of the Middle Palaeolithic...
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Cruciani F, Trombetta B, Macaulay V, Scozzari R
Am J Hum Genet
. 2010 Mar;
86(3):495-7.
PMID: 20215010
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