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Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation
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Human mitochondrial DNA is widely used as tool in many fields including evolutionary anthropology and population history, medical genetics, genetic genealogy, and forensic science. Many applications require detailed knowledge about the phylogenetic relationship of mtDNA variants. Although the phylogenetic resolution of global human mtDNA diversity has greatly improved as a result of increasing sequencing efforts of complete mtDNA genomes, an updated overall mtDNA tree is currently not available. In order to facilitate a better use of known mtDNA variation, we have constructed an updated comprehensive phylogeny of global human mtDNA variation, based on both coding- and control region mutations. This complete mtDNA tree includes previously published as well as newly identified haplogroups, is easily navigable, will be continuously and regularly updated in the future, and is online available at http://www.phylotree.org.
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“the most recent revision of mtDNA haplogroups [87] clearly show an increase in the frequency of haplogroup B from Papua New Guinea and nearby islands at 60-40%, to over 80% in Fiji, and +90% among Polynesians (Figure 2).”
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“Across all 160 Native Hawaiians, we identified 14 mtSNPs to have a minor allele frequency >1% (Table 1), of which 6 polymorphisms have not been previously identified by PhyloTree [46] to be a haplogroup identifying marker.”
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“MtDNA haplogroup assignment was performed on positions with a read depth > 1 (coverage filtered) using HaploGrep 2.0 (Kloss‐Brandstatter et al., 2011), followed by manual confirmation of haplogroup‐defining mutations provided in Phylotree mtDNA tree Build 16 (van Oven and Kayser, 2009).”
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“It belongs to haplogroup HV18 [48], a rare lineage (five samples in EMPOP v4/R12, https://empop.online/)[49,50] that has been defined for the first time by analyzing modern Iranians [51] and that is nowadays present in Western Europe and the Middle East.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- van Oven, M., & Kayser, M.
- Affiliations
- Erasmus MC (NL)
- ORCID
- Kayser, Manfred
- Venue
- Human Mutation
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2009-02
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- E386-E394
- ISSN
- 1059-7794 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-1004
- OpenAlex
- W2111668248
- Cited by
- 1,810
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 39.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Human Mutation (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- human mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA phylogeny, mtDNA haplogroups
- MeSH terms
- DNA, Mitochondrial, Haplotypes, Humans, Phylogeny, Genetic Variation, Open Reading Frames, Locus Control Region
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