North African Affy 6.0 data (Arauna et al., 2017)

You can find the Affy 6.0 data of the manuscript “Recent historical migrations have shaped the gene pool of Arabs and Berbers in North Africa” by Arauna et al. in the following webpage:

https://figshare.com/articles/North_African_Berber_dataset/3501761

European Affy 6.0 data (Botigué et al., 2013)

Gene flow from North Africa contributes to differential human genetic diversity in Southern Europe

Laura R. Botigué, Brenna M. Henn, Simon Gravel, Brian K. Maples, Christopher R. Gignoux, Erik Corona,
Gil Atzmon, Edward Burns, Harry Ostrer, Carlos Flores, Jaume Bertranpetit, David Comas,
Carlos D. Bustamante (2013) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110:11791-11796 Botigue2013

The Affy 6.0 data can be downloaded here: NorthAfricaEuropePNAS

 

2011 publications

IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

1.    Sikora M, Laayouni H, Calafell F, Comas D, Bertranpetit J (2011) A genomic analysis identifies a novel component in the genetic structure of sub-Saharan African populations. European Journal of Human Genetics 19:84-88. Sikora2011

2.     Mendizabal I, Valente C, Gusmão A, Alves C, Gomes V, Goios A, Parson W, Calafell F, Alvarez L, Amorim A, Gusmão L, Comas D, Prata MJ (2011) Reconstructing the Indian origin and dispersal of the European Roma: a maternal genetic perspective. PLoS ONE 6(1):e15988. Mendizabal2011

3.     Batini C, Lopes J, Behar DM, Calafell F,Jorde LB, van der Veen L, Quintana-Murci L, Spedini G, Destro-Bisol G, Comas D (2011) Insights into the demographic history of African Pygmies from complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28:1099-110. Batini2011

4.     Fadhlaoui-Zid K, Rodríguez-Botigué L, Naoui N, Benammar-Elgaaied A, Calafell F, Comas D (2011) Mitochondrial DNA structure in North Africa reveals a genetic discontinuity in the Nile Valley. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145:107-117. Fadhlaoui-Zid2011

5.     Henn BM, Gignoux CR, Jobin M, Granka JM, Macpherson JM, Kidd JM, Rodríguez-Botigué L, Ramachandran S, Hon L, Brisbin A, Lin AA, Underhill P, Comas D, Kidd KK, Parham P, Norman PJ, Bustamante CD, Mountain JL, Feldman MW (2011) African Hunter-Gatherer Populations Maintain the Highest Levels of Human Genomic Diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108:5154-5162. Henn2011

6.     Laayouni H, Montanucci L, Sikora M, Mele M, Dall’Olio GM, Lorente-Galdos B, McGee KM, Graffelman J, Awadalla P, Bosch E, Comas D, Navarro A, Calafell F, Casals F, Bertranpetit J (2011) Similarity in recombination rate estimates highly correlates with genetic differentiation in humans. PLoS ONE 6(3):e17913. Laayouni2011

7.     Montano M,  Ferri G, Marcari V, Batini C, Anayale O, Destro-Bisol G, Comas D (2011) The Bantu expansion revisited: a new analysis of Y chromosome variation in Central Western Africa. Molecular Ecology 20:2693-2708. Montano2011

8.     Batini C, Ferri G, Destro-Bisol G, Brisighelli F, Luiselli D, Sanchez-Diz P, Rocha J, Jorde LB, Brehm A, Montano V, Elwali NE, Spedini G, D’amato ME, Myres N, Ebbesen P, Comas D, Capelli C (2011) Early Y chromosome lineages in Africa: the origin and dispersal of Homo sapiens. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28:2603-2613. Batini2011b

9.     Putku M, Kepp K, Org E, Sober S, Comas D, Viigimaa M, Veldre G, Juhanson P, Hallast P, Tonisson N, HYPEST, Shaw-Hawkins S, Caulfield MJ, BRIGHT, Khusnutdinova E, Kozich V, Munroe PB, Laan M (2011) Novel polymorphic AluYb8 insertion in the WNK1 gene, involved in blood pressure regulation. Human Mutation 32:806-814. Putku2011

10.   Martínez-Cruz B, Ziegle J, Sanz P, Sotelo G, Anglada R, Plaza S, Comas D, the Genographic Consortium (2011) Multiplex screening of the human Y chromosome using TaqMan probes. Investigative Genetics 2:13. Martinez-Cruz2011

11.    Fadhlaoui-Zid K, Martínez-Cruz B, Khodjet-el-hkil H, Mendizabal I, Benammar-Elgaaied A, Comas D (2011) Genetic structure of Tunisian ethnic groups revealed by paternal lineages. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 146:271-280. FadhlaouiZid2011b

North African Affy 6.0 data (Henn et al., 2012)

Genomic Ancestry of North Africans Supports Back-to-Africa Migrations
Brenna M. Henn, Laura R. Botigué, Simon Gravel, Wei Wang, Abra Brisbin, Jake K. Byrnes, Karima
Fadhlaoui-Zid, Pierre A. Zalloua, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Jaume Bertranpetit, Carlos D.
Bustamante, David Comas (2012) PLoS Genetics 8(1)e1002397 Henn2012

The Affy 6.0 data can be downloaded here: NAfrica_Bas and NWAfrica_Qat_280K

Data from Gardner et al. 2008

Supplementary Information from the manuscript:

Gardner M, Bertranpetit J, Comas D (2008) Worldwide genetic variation and tagSNP transferability in dopamine and serotonin pathway genes. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 147B:1070-1075.

Supplementary Table 1 Supplementary Information 1

Supplementary Table 2 Supplementary Information 2

Mitochondrial data from Central Asian populations (Comas et al., 2004)

MtDNA sequences from hypervariable region I (Comas2004HVR1) and region II (Comas2004HVR2) from the Central Asian samples that appeared in the manuscript:

Comas D, Plaza S, Wells RS, Yuldaseva N, Lao O, Calafell F, Bertranpetit J (2004) Admixture, migrations, and dispersals in Central Asia: evidence from maternal DNA lineages. European Journal of Human Genetics 12(6):495-504.

Tunisian mtDNA data from Fadhlaoui-Zid et al (2004)

Data from Fadhlaoui-Zid et al (2004) Mitochondrial DNA heterogeneity in Tunisian Berbers. Annals of Human Genetics 68:222-233.

Data from three Tunisian Berber samples: SequencesTunisia

Mitochondrial data from Western Mediterranean populations from Plaza et al (2003)

Data from Plaza et al (2003) Joining the Pillars of Hercules:mtDNA sequences show multidirectional gene flow in teh Western Mediterranean. Annals of Human Genetics 67(4): 312-328.

Sequence data from positions 16,024-16,383: MtDNA_Plaza2003