Genetic evidence of an early exit of Homo sapiens sapiens from Africa through eastern Africa

Nature Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 437-441

  Quintana Murci, Lluís ^a   Semino, Ornella ^b   Bandelt, Hans J ^b   Passarino, Giuseppe ^b   McElreavey, Ken ^a   Santachiara Benerecetti, A Silvana ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HOMO SAPIENS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032708838     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/70550     Document Type: Article

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