Genetic studies in 5 Greek population samples using 12 highly polymorphic DNA loci

Human Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-42

  Kondopoulou, Helena ^a   Loftus, Ronan ^b   Kouvatsi, Anastasia ^a   Triantaphyllidis, Costas ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DNA polymorphism; Greece; Hypervariable region loci; Microsatellites; Minisatellites

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SATELLITE DNA;

EID: 0033082564     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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