The four founding lineage hypothesis for the new world: A critical reevaluation

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 241-246

  Merriwether, D Andrew ^a   Ferrell, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETTA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNOLOGY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ASIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOUNDER EFFECT; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MODELS, GENETIC; SIBERIA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030077063     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0017     Document Type: Article

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