This essay reviews comparative studies of animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), with
emphasis on findings made and ideas developed at Berkeley. It argues that such studies are …

… Thus, macrohaplogroup L with subgroups L1, L2, and L3 (all of which contain further
subhaplogroups) is restricted to Africa (127, 175), whereas macrohaplogroups M and N originated …

… )n (GACA)1 (GATA)m, and (GATA)n (GACA)1 (GAAA)m (where n and m are 12) were all …
)1 (GAAA)1 (GATA)m was considered to end after (GATA)n, with (GATA)m as a separate locus. …

Using DNA extracted from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, we have
sequenced the genome of an archaic hominin to about 1.9-fold coverage. This individual …

… pJ Il-m-2 (for example, 100 Il-W, 10 Il-m2 , 100 ns)14,21. This would yield up to 1011 Hz W-1
… aut the agreement between our molecular view and the evidence fr~m' palaeoanthropology …

DNA was extracted from the Neandertal-type specimen found in 1856 in western Germany.
By sequencing clones from short overlapping PCR products, a hitherto unknown …

… Vigilant, M. Stoneking, and AC Wilson (deceased) are in the Division of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720. H. Harpending is in the …

… We thank M. Meyer for preparing DNA libraries for high-throughput … Pakendorf, M. Slatkin,
and B. Viola for comments on the manuscript. … Delete-m jackknife for unequal m. Stat. Comput. …

The frequencies of low-activity alleles of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in humans
are highly correlated with the prevalence of malaria. These “deficiency” alleles are thought to …

The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we
generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama–Nyungan …