Assessing ancient DNA studies

MTP Gilbert, HJ Bandelt, M Hofreiter, I Barnes - Trends in ecology & …, 2005 - cell.com
The study of ancient DNA has the potential to make significant and unique contributions to
ecology and evolution. However, the techniques used contain inherent problems, particularly …

Harvesting the fruit of the human mtDNA tree

…, A Achilli, V Macaulay, M Richards, HJ Bandelt - TRENDS in …, 2006 - cell.com
Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) studies have entered a new phase since the blossoming
of complete genome analyses. Sequencing complete mtDNAs is more expensive and …

[PDF][PDF] The archaeogenetics of Europe

…, O Semino, W Davies, V Macaulay, HJ Bandelt… - Current Biology, 2010 - cell.com
A new timescale has recently been established for human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
lineages, making mtDNA at present the most informative genetic marker system for studying …

Median-joining networks for inferring intraspecific phylogenies.

HJ Bandelt, P Forster, A Röhl - Molecular biology and evolution, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Reconstructing phylogenies from intraspecific data (such as human mitochondrial DNA
variation) is often a challenging task because of large sample sizes and small genetic distances …

[PDF][PDF] Tracing European founder lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA pool

…, R Scozzari, A Torroni, HJ Bandelt - The American Journal of …, 2000 - cell.com
Founder analysis is a method for analysis of nonrecombining DNA sequence data, with the
aim of identification and dating of migrations into new territory. The method picks out founder …

Single, rapid coastal settlement of Asia revealed by analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes

…, Z Zainuddin, W Goodwin, D Bulbeck, HJ Bandelt… - Science, 2005 - science.org
A recent dispersal of modern humans out of Africa is now widely accepted, but the routes
taken across Eurasia are still disputed. We show that mitochondrial DNA variation in isolated “…

HaploGrep 2: mitochondrial haplogroup classification in the era of high-throughput sequencing

…, L Forer, G Specht, HJ Bandelt… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) profiles can be classified into phylogenetic clusters (haplogroups),
which is of great relevance for evolutionary, forensic and medical genetics. With the …

[PDF][PDF] The ancestry of Brazilian mtDNA lineages

…, PEM Guimarães, ACS Ferreira, HJ Bandelt… - The American Journal of …, 2000 - cell.com
We have analyzed 247 Brazilian mtDNAs for hypervariable segment (HVS)–I and selected
restriction fragment-length–polymorphism sites, to assess their ancestry in different continents…

Split decomposition: a new and useful approach to phylogenetic analysis of distance data

HJ Bandelt, AWM Dress - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 1992 - Elsevier
In order to analyze the structure inherent to a matrix of dissimilarities (such as evolutionary
distances) we propose to use a new technique called split decomposition. This method …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogeographic differentiation of mitochondrial DNA in Han Chinese

YG Yao, QP Kong, HJ Bandelt, T Kivisild… - The American Journal of …, 2002 - cell.com
To characterize the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation in Han Chinese from several
provinces of China, we have sequenced the two hypervariable segments of the control region …