% pubman genre = article @article{item_3255596, title = {{Mitogenome diversity in Sardinians: A genetic window onto an Island{\textquotesingle}s past}}, author = {Olivieri, Anna and Sidore, Carlo and Achilli, Alessandro and Angius, Andrea and Posth, Cosimo and Furtw{\"a}ngler, Anja and Brandini, Stefania and Capodiferro, Marco Rosario and Gandini, Francesca and Zoledziewska, Magdalena and Pitzalis, Maristella and Maschio, Andrea and Busonero, Fabio and Lai, Luca and Skeates, Robin and Gradoli, Maria Giuseppina and Beckett, Jessica and Marongiu, Michele and Mazzarello, Vittorio and Marongiu, Patrizia and Rubino, Salvatore and Rito, Teresa and Macaulay, Vincent and Semino, Ornella and Pala, Maria and Abecasis, Gon{\c{c}}alo R. and Schlessinger, David and Conde-Sousa, Eduardo and Soares, Pedro and Richards, Martin B. and Cucca, Francesco and Torroni, Antonio}, language = {eng}, issn = {0737-4038}, doi = {10.1093/molbev/msx082}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-05}, abstract = {{Sardinians are {\textquotedblleft}outliers{\textquotedblright} in the European genetic landscape and, according to paleogenomic nuclear data, the closest to early European Neolithic farmers. To learn more about their genetic ancestry, we analyzed 3,491 modern and 21 ancient mitogenomes from Sardinia. We observed that 78.4{\textpercent} of modern mitogenomes cluster into 89 haplogroups that most likely arose in situ. For each Sardinian-specific haplogroup (SSH), we also identified the upstream node in the phylogeny, from which non-Sardinian mitogenomes radiate. This provided minimum and maximum time estimates for the presence of each SSH on the island. In agreement with demographic evidence, almost all SSHs coalesce in the post-Nuragic, Nuragic and Neolithic-Copper Age periods. For some rare SSHs, however, we could not dismiss the possibility that they might have been on the island prior to the Neolithic, a scenario that would be in agreement with archeological evidence of a Mesolithic occupation of Sardinia.}}, journal = {{Molecular Biology and Evolution}}, volume = {34}, number = {5}, pages = {1230--1239}, }