Characterization of mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome haplotypes in a Uruguayan population of African ancestry

Human Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 641-652

  Bravi, Claudio M ^a   Sans, Mónica ^b   Bailliet, Graciela ^a   Martínez Marignac, Verónica L ^a   Portas, Mónica ^b   Barreto, Isabel ^b   Bonilla, Carolina ^b   Bianchi, Néstor O ^a  

^a Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Celular   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

mtDNA; Uruguayan blacks; Y Chromosome haplotypes

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; PHYLOGENY; URUGUAY; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; PHYLOGENY; URUGUAY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031260206     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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