Fig. 2
From: Yemenite-Jewish families with Machado–Joseph disease (MJD/SCA3) share a recent common ancestor
Phylogenetic networks showing the most parsimonious relationships among STR-haplotypes flanking the ATXN3-(CAG)n in six Yemenite-Jewish families with MJD, 100 Yemenite-Jewish control chromosomes, and the single-control haplotype (JC6) found to share the same Joseph-like SNP background (Joseph lineage with variants in rs12895357 and rs12588287) as MJD Israeli patients. a Circle size is proportional to number of chromosomes/families; nodes represent haplotypes not found in our populations. b Phylogenetic reconstruction based on genetic distances (DA) between the three groups analysed
