Molecular Biology and Evolution 2005 22(11):2313; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj003
Published by Oxford University Press 2005.
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Expanding Southwest Pacific mitochondrial haplogroups P and Q
doi:10.1093/molbev/msi142
Mol Biol Evol. 22:1506–1517. 2005.
In the report of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup variation in Near Oceania, the section on the calculation of expansion times from control region sequences was incorrect, producing elevated estimates. The authors' attempt to expand the area of the control region used to estimate the coalescence time as a modification of the method of Forster et al. (1996)
, which was based on variation only across nps 16090-16365 of HVS1, was flawed by some tenuous assumptions.
Replacement Table 1 presents the estimated expansion times for haplogroups P1, Q1, and Q2, using the identical method of Forster et al. (1996) for HVS1. The comparable RFLP estimate for P1 (Forster et al. 2001) is not significantly different, but the RFLP estimate for Q1 remains significantly younger than ours, presumably because of our five-fold increase in sample size. Newly identified Q2 has the most recent expansion estimate.
The coding region estimated divergence time for Q1 and Q2 (combined) is 36,500 ± 7,100 YBP, and for Q as a whole, 44,500 ± 7,400 YBP, compared to 42,800 ± 7,000 YBP for P1. These coding region estimates were calculated employing the commonly used technique of Saillard et al. (2000) with the estimated mutation rate of Mishmar et al. (2003).
Therefore, P1 and Q remain excellent founding lineage candidates for ancient Near Oceania, which was settled by 42,000 YBP.
Replacement Table 1
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The authors regret this error and thank Georgi Hudjasof.
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