The Berber mitochondrial pool is characterized by an overall high frequency of Western Eurasian haplogroups, a markedly lower frequency of sub-Saharan L lineages, and a significant (but differential) presence of North African haplogroups U6 and M1.

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, [a] also known as Amazigh [b] or Imazighen, [c] are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Maghreb.

What was the ethnogenesis of the Berbers? The Berber ethnic identity is the result of a fusion between indigenous middle stone age populations of the Caspian period and Neolithic immigrants who moved to North Africa as farmers from the Middle East. The latter component has also provided crucial cultural and linguistic impulses.

Seven of the new sequences (one Berber from Algeria, two Italian, one Spanish, and three Saami) clustered into U5b1b, the subclade encompassing the Yakut and Fulbe mtDNAs.

We characterize the genetic heterogeneity of North African groups, focusing on the putative differences of Berbers and Arabs, and estimate migration dates. We analyze genome-wide autosomal data in five Berber and six Arab groups, and compare them to Middle Easterns, sub-Saharans, and Europeans.

Jun 12, 2018 · In the PCA, IAM samples are placed close to Mozabites (Berber group inhabiting the Mʾzab oases of southern Algeria), while Iberian Neolithic samples fall close to southern European populations (SI Appendix, Supplementary Note 6). As suspected from the mtDNA and Y chromosome data, KEB samples do not cluster with IAM and are placed in an ...

Jun 19, 2024 · What is the Berber DNA? The Berber mitochondrial pool is characterized by an overall high frequency of Western Eurasian haplogroups, a markedly lower frequency of sub-Saharan L lineages, and a significant (but differential) …

We sequenced fifteen males from seven North African populations (Morocco, Libya, Algeria, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Berber Zenata and Berber Tunisia) by using whole-genome shotgun paired-end sequencing (Illumina HiSeq 2000) to a mean coverage of 30x.

The Berber people presently live in several areas of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), as well as some Saharan... The term “Berber” refers to a language family, including, among others, the Tamazight and Kabyle languages (Ruhlen 1987).

The mitochondrial DNA variation of 295 Berber-speakers from Morocco (Asni, Bouhria and Figuig) and the Egyptian oasis of Siwa was evaluated by sequencing a portion of the control region (including HVS-I and part of HVS-II) and surveying haplogroup-specific coding region markers.