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From: "R. & G. Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Haplogroup J2 frequency
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:22:02 -0400
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From: "ellen Levy" <>
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Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Haplogroup J2 frequency


> Rich:
>
> I am writing a paper (nearly complete) on the alleged
> controversy surrounding Basque Paleolithic ancestry
> and the related Neolithic/Paleolithic debate. So I'll
> try not to completely give away my paper here (though
> you no doubt can guess my slant on this issue), but
> here's a list of papers concerning the Basque:
>
> 1. MS205 Minisatellite Diversity in Basqus: Evidence
> for a Pre-Neolithic Component, Santos Alonso, Genome
> Research, 1998, Vol. 8, Issue 12, 1289.
>
> 2. The place of the Basques in the European
> Y-chromosome diversity landscape, Santos Alonso, 2005,
> Eur Journal of Hum Gen, 1-10.
>
> 3. Insights into the "Isolation" of the Basques: mtDNA
> Lineages from the Historical Site of Aldaieta (6th-7th
> Centuries AD), Ainhoa Alzualde, 2006, Am Jour of Phy
> Anthr.
>
> 4. An mtDNA Analysis in Ancient Basque Populations:
> Implications for Haplogroup V as a Marker for a Major
> Paleolithic Expansion from Southwestern Europe, N.
> Izagirre, 1999, Am J Hum Genet, 65: 199.
>
> 5. Temporal Mitochondrial DNA Variation in the Basque
> Country: Influence of Post-Neolithic Events, A.
> Alzualde, 2005, Annals of Hum Genet 69:1-16.
>
> 6. The Basques: Review of Population genetics and
> Mendelian Disorders, Frederic Bauduer, 2005 Hum Bio
> 77.5, p619.
>
> 7. Microsatellite Data support subpopulation
> structuring among the Basques, 2005 J Hum Genet
> 50:403-414.
>
> One of the intriguing things about this group is that
> a number of ancient DNA studies have been performed on
> Basque archaeological remains, so we have a much
> clearer of idea of how the Basque population has
> changed genetically (at least among the mtDNA results)
> over time.
>
> Ellen Coffman
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Thanks, Ellen. I look forward to reading your paper when it is finished. Are
the papers to which you referred me available online?

I take it we are in agreement, at least generally, on the Basques and their
alleged status as the premier "hunter-gatherer natives" of Western Europe?

Rich

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