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- Title
The peopling of modern Bosnia-Herzegovina: Y-chromosome haplogroups in the three main ethnic groups.
- Authors
Marjanovic, D; Fornarino, S; Montagna, S; Primorac, D; Hadziselimovic, R; Vidovic, S; Pojskic, N; Battaglia, V; Achilli, A; Drobnic, K; Andjelinovic, S; Torroni, A; Santachiara-Benerecetti, A S; Semino, O
- Abstract
The variation at 28 Y-chromosome biallelic markers was analysed in 256 males (90 Croats, 81 Serbs and 85 Bosniacs) from Bosnia-Herzegovina. An important shared feature between the three ethnic groups is the high frequency of the "Palaeolithic" European-specific haplogroup (Hg) I, a likely signature of a Balkan population re-expansion after the Last Glacial Maximum. This haplogroup is almost completely represented by the sub-haplogroup I-P37 whose frequency is, however, higher in the Croats (approximately 71%) than in Bosniacs (approximately 44%) and Serbs (approximately 31%). Other rather frequent haplogroups are E (approximately 15%) and J (approximately 7%), which are considered to have arrived from the Middle East in Neolithic and post-Neolithic times, and R-M17 (approximately 14%), which probably marked several arrivals, at different times, from eastern Eurasia. Hg E, almost exclusively represented by its subclade E-M78, is more common in the Serbs (approximately 20%) than in Bosniacs (approximately 13%) and Croats (approximately 9%), and Hg J, observed in only one Croat, encompasses approximately 9% of the Serbs and approximately 12% of the Bosniacs, where it shows its highest diversification. By contrast, Hg R-M17 displays similar frequencies in all three groups. On the whole, the three main groups of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in spite of some quantitative differences, share a large fraction of the same ancient gene pool distinctive for the Balkan area.
- Publication
Annals of human genetics, 2005, Vol 69, Issue Pt 6, p757
- ISSN
0003-4800
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.00190.x