Trading genes along the silk road: mtDNA sequences and the origin of central Asian populations

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1824-1838

  Comas, David ^a,b   Calafell, Francesc ^a,c   Mateu, Eva ^a   Pérez Lezaun, Anna ^a,d   Bosch, Elena ^a   Martínez Arias, Rosa ^a   Clarimon, Jordi ^a   Facchini, Fiorenzo ^e   Fiori, Giovanni ^e   Luiselli, Donata ^e   Pettener, Davide ^e   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; OXYGEN TENSION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032471433     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302133     Document Type: Article

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