The LWb blood group as a marker of prehistoric Baltic migrations and admixture

Human Heredity

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 154-158

  Sistonen, P ^a   Virtaranta Knowles, K ^a   Denisova, R ^b   Kucinskas V ^c   Ambrasiene, D ^c   Beckman, L ^d,e  

^a Finnish Red Cross   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d Department of Medical Genetics ^*  (Sweden)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Admixture; Balts; LWb blood group; Migration

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BALTIC STATES; BLOOD GROUP; CODOMINANCE; ESTONIA; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; MIGRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POINT MUTATION; POLAND; POPULATION GENETICS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SWEDEN; ALLELE; EUROPE; GENETICS; TIME;

BLOOD GROUP ANTIGEN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; ICAM4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALLELES; BALTIC STATES; BLOOD GROUP ANTIGENS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; TIME;

EID: 0032587917     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022864     Document Type: Article

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