TY - JOUR AU - Cocoş, Relu AU - Schipor, Sorina AU - Hervella, Montserrat AU - Cianga, Petru AU - Popescu, Roxana AU - Bănescu, Claudia AU - Constantinescu, Mihai AU - Martinescu, Alina AU - Raicu, Florina PY - 2017 DA - 2017/03/07 TI - Genetic affinities among the historical provinces of Romania and Central Europe as revealed by an mtDNA analysis JO - BMC Genetics SP - 20 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - As a major crossroads between Asia and Europe, Romania has experienced continuous migration and invasion episodes. The precise routes may have been shaped by the topology of the territory and had diverse impacts on the genetic structure of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in historical Romanian provinces. We studied 714 Romanians from all historical provinces, Wallachia, Dobrudja, Moldavia, and Transylvania, by analyzing the mtDNA control region and coding markers to encompass the complete landscape of mtDNA haplogroups. SN - 1471-2156 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-017-0487-5 DO - 10.1186/s12863-017-0487-5 ID - Cocoş2017 ER -