The Basque Paradigm: Genetic Evidence of a Maternal Continuity in the Franco-Cantabrian Region since Pre-Neolithic Times

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(The American Journal of Human Genetics 90, 486–493; March 9, 2012) In the Acknowledgments of this paper, the funding acknowledgments for one of the authors, Mannis van Oven, have been omitted. They should read as follows: M.v.O. received financial support from the Netherlands Forensic Institute and Erasmus MC via the Department of Forensic Molecular Biology of Erasmus MC and from a grant from the Netherlands Genomics Initiative/Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research within the framework of the Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands. The authors regret these previous omissions. The Basque Paradigm: Genetic Evidence of a Maternal Continuity in the Franco-Cantabrian Region since Pre-Neolithic TimesBehar et al.The American Journal of Human GeneticsFebruary 23, 2012In BriefDifferent lines of evidence point to the resettlement of much of western and central Europe by populations from the Franco-Cantabrian region during the Late Glacial and Postglacial periods. In this context, the study of the genetic diversity of contemporary Basques, a population located at the epicenter of the Franco-Cantabrian region, is particularly useful because they speak a non-Indo-European language that is considered to be a linguistic isolate. In contrast with genome-wide analysis and Y chromosome data, where the problem of poor time estimates remains, a new timescale has been established for the human mtDNA and makes this genome the most informative marker for studying European prehistory. Full-Text PDF Open Archive