Open AccessDiscordant Patterns of mtDNA and Ethno-Linguistic Variation in 14 Iranian Ethnic Groups
Author(s) -
Shirin Farjadian,
Marco Sazzini,
Sergio Tofanelli,
Loredana Castrì,
Luca Taglioli,
Davide Pettener,
Abbas Ghaderi,
Giovanni Romeo,
Donata Luiselli
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
human heredity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.423
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1423-0062
pISSN - 0001-5652
DOI - 10.1159/000330166
Subject(s) - endogamy , ethnic group , mitochondrial dna , prehistory , gene flow , geography , haplogroup , population , variation (astronomy) , evolutionary biology , biology , demography , ethnology , genetic variation , genetics , anthropology , gene , history , haplotype , allele , sociology , archaeology , astrophysics , physics
Present-day Iran has long represented a natural hub for the expansion of human genes and cultures. That being so, the overlapping of prehistoric and more recent demographic events interacting at different time scales with geographical and cultural barriers has yielded a tangled patchwork of anthropological types within this narrow area. This study aims to comprehensively evaluate this ethnic mosaic by depicting a fine-grained picture of the Iranian mitochondrial landscape.