West Africa is characterized by a migration history spanning more than 150,000 years.
Climate changes but also political circumstances were responsible for several early but also …

This study provides 398 novel complete mitochondrial control region sequences that
augment the still underrepresented data from Africa by three datasets: a mixed West African …

Large forensic mtDNA databases which adhere to strict guidelines for generation and
maintenance, are not available for many populations outside of the United States and …

Abstract Analysis of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation plays an important role in
forensic genetic investigations, especially in degraded biological samples and hair shafts …

The African mitochondrial (mt) phylogeny is coarsely resolved but the majority of population
data generated so far is limited to the analysis of the first hypervariable segment (HVS-1) of …

Current forensic mitochondrial (mt) DNA databases are limited in representative population
data of African origin. We investigated HVS-I/HVS-II sequences of 120 Tunisian and …

Africa is the cradle of all human beings, and although it has been the focus of a number of
genetic studies, there are many questions that remain unresolved. We have performed one …

We show that the very patchy genetic landscape that is emerging for North African mtDNA
diversity is mainly due to the sampling strategy being conducted in small villages, where …

Genetic studies have emphasized the contrast between North African and sub-Saharan
populations, but the particular affinities of the North African mtDNA pool to that of Europe, the …

Variation in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region as detected by sequence-specific
oligonucleotide (SSO) probes is described for 381 individuals from nine sub-Saharan …