A view of modern human origins from Y chromosome microsatellite variation

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 558-567

  Seielstad, Mark ^a   Bekele, Endashaw ^b   Ibrahim, Muntaser ^c   Touré, Amadou ^d   Traoré, Mamadou ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c National Health Laboratory Sudan   (Sudan)

^d Institut National de Recherche en Sante Publique Mali   (Mali)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AFRICA; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; VARIATION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032808276     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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