2003/08/27 by B. А. Malyarchuk, Tomasz Grzybowski, М. В. Деренко +3 · 5 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Arts and Humanities · #Forensic and Genetic Research #Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Mitochondrial DNA #Haplogroup #Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup #Bosnian #Restriction fragment length polymorphism #Hypervariable region #Biology #Peninsula #Genetics #Geography #Evolutionary biology #Haplotype #Genotype #Gene #Ecology
paper · doi:10.1046/j.1469-1809.2003.00042.x
openalex publication_date 2003/08/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Mitochondrial DNA variability in two Slavonic-speaking populations of the northwestern Balkan peninsula, Bosnians (N = 144) and Slovenians (N = 104), was studied by hypervariable segments I and II (HVS I and II) sequencing and restriction fragment-length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of the mtDNA coding region. The majority of the mtDNA detected in Southern Slavonic populations falls into the common West Eurasian mitochondrial haplogroups (e.g., H, pre-V, J, T, U, K, I, W, and X). About 2% of the Bosnian mtDNAs encompass East Eurasian and African lineages (e.g., M and L1b, respectively). The distribution of mtDNA subclusters in Bosnians, Slovenians and the neighbouring European populations reveals that the common genetic substratum characteristic for Central and Eastern European populations (such as Germans, Poles, Russians and Finns) penetrates also South European territories as far as the Western Balkans. However, the observed differentiation between Bosnian and Slovenian mtDNAs suggests that at least two different migration waves of the Slavs may have reached the Balkans in the early Middle Ages.