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Subject: [DNA] New Scientist article: mtDNA diversity, ancient and modern,in the UK
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:05:40 EDT

Modern mtDNA shows less diversity, perhaps because the Black Plague
eliminated rare haplotypes (genetic drift, a random, "stochastic" effect) or because of
some unknown selection bias.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12393-black-death-casts-a-genetic-shadow
-over-england.html

The DOI (Digital Object Identifier) link to the technical article appears to
be broken at the moment. Use this instead:

http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/apv8161868j01071/fulltext.pdf

There are other news items about the article. Try searching for the author <
Hoelzel> at http://news.google.com.


Ann Turner


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