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Comparative Study
. 1999 Jan 29;354(1379):99-108; discussion 108-9.
doi: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0363.

Early medieval cattle remains from a Scandinavian settlement in Dublin: genetic analysis and comparison with extant breeds

D E MacHugh  1 , C S Troy, F McCormick, I Olsaker, E Eythórsdóttir, D G Bradley
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Comparative Study

Early medieval cattle remains from a Scandinavian settlement in Dublin: genetic analysis and comparison with extant breeds

D E MacHugh et al. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. .

Abstract

A panel of cattle bones excavated from the 1000-year-old Viking Fishamble Street site in Dublin was assessed for the presence of surviving mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Eleven of these bones gave amplifiable mtDNA and a portion of the hypervariable control region was determined for each specimen. A comparative analysis was performed with control region sequences from five extant Nordic and Irish cattle breeds. The medieval population displayed similar levels of mtDNA diversity to modern European breeds. However, a number of novel mtDNA haplotypes were also detected in these bone samples. In addition, the presence of a putative ancestral sequence at high frequency in the medieval population supports an early post-domestication expansion of cattle in Europe.

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