Aboriginal Australians

Lockhart River community dance troupe at the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival, Queensland, Australia. Photo credit: Ozimages / Alamy Stock Photo

Publications

Nagle N, van Oven M, Wilcox S, van Holst Pellekaan S, Tyler-Smith C, Xue Y, Ballantyne KN, Wilcox L, Papac L, Cooke K, van Oorschot RAH, McAllister P, Williams L, Kayser M, Mitchell RJ, The Geographic Consortium. 2017. Australian Aboriginal mitochondrial genome variation – An increased understanding of population antiquity and diversity. Sci Rep 7:43041.  Link

Nagle N, Ballantyne KN, van Oven M, Tyler-Smith C, Xue Y, Wilcox S, Wilcox L, Turkalov R, van Oorschot RAH, van Holst Pellekaan S, Schurr TG, McAllister P, Williams L, Kayser M, Mitchell RJ, The Genographic Consortium. 2016. Mitochondrial DNA diversity of present-day Aboriginal Australians and its implications for human evolution in Oceania. J Hum Genet 62(3):343-353.  Link

Nagle N, Ballantyne KN, van Oven M, Tyler-Smith C, Xue Y, Taylor D, Wilcox S, Wilcox L, Turkalov R, van Oorschot RAH, McAllister P, Williams L, Kayser M, Mitchell RJ, The Geographic Consortium. 2016. Antiquity and diversity of Aboriginal Australian Y-chromosomes. Am J Phys Anthropol 159(3):367-81.  Link

McAllister P, Nagle N, Mitchell RJ, The Genographic Consortium. 2013. The Australian Barrineans: Southern Negritos or rainforest-adapted aborigines? Hum Biol 85(1-3):485-494.  Link

Huoponen K, Schurr TG, Chen Y-S, Wallace DC. 2001. Mitochondrial DNA variation in an aboriginal Australian population: Evidence for genetic isolation and regional differentiation. Hum Immunol 62(9):954-969.  Link

More Information

Aboriginal Australian Languages: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/why-australia-home-one-largest-language-families-world