Y-chromosome polymorphisms and the origins of the European gene pool

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1432, 1999, Pages 1959-1965

  Casalotti, Rosa ^a,d   Simoni, Lucia ^b   Belledi, Michele ^a   Barbujani, Guido ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA diversity; Europe; Microsatellites; Spatial autocorrelation; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE POOL; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0006250488     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0873     Document Type: Article

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