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Science 30 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5782, p. 1875
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123984
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Response to Comment on "Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites"

Joachim Burger,1* Detlef Gronenborn,2 Peter Forster,3 Shuichi Matsumura,3 Barbara Bramanti,1 Wolfgang Haak1

The discovery of mitochondrial type N1a in Central European Neolithic skeletons at a high frequency enabled us to answer the question of whether the modern population is maternally descended from the early farmers instead of addressing the traditional question of the origin of early European farmers.

1 Institut für Anthropologie, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Saarstrasse 21, D-55099 Mainz, Germany.
2 Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Ernst-Ludwig-Platz 2, D-55116 Mainz, Germany.
3 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jburger{at}uni-mainz.de

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