title: Single, rapid coastal settlement of Asia revealed by analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes.
abstract: 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 "relict" populations in southeast Asia supports the view that there was only a single dispersal from Africa, most likely via a southern coastal route, through India and onward into southeast Asia and Australasia. There was an early offshoot, leading ultimately to the settlement of the Near East and Europe, but the main dispersal from India to Australia approximately 65,000 years ago was rapid, most likely taking only a few thousand years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK. vincent@stats.gla.ac.uk
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Macaulay
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Achilli
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rengo
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Meehan
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blackburn
authors.forename: Ornella
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Semino
authors.forename: Rosaria
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Scozzari
authors.forename: Fulvio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cruciani
authors.forename: Adi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taha
authors.forename: Norazila Kassim
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Shaari
authors.forename: Joseph Maripa
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Raja
authors.forename: Patimah
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ismail
authors.forename: Zafarina
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zainuddin
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Goodwin
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bulbeck
authors.forename: Hans-Jürgen
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Bandelt
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oppenheimer
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torroni
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D001208:Asia; D044362:Australasia; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005060:Europe; D018703:Founder Effect; D040961:Genetic Drift; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D015894:Genome, Human; D006239:Haplotypes; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008296:Malaysia; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D009154:Mutation; D010802:Phylogeny; D011157:Population Dynamics; D013995:Time
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial