Combined use of biallelic and microsatellite Y-chromosome polymorphisms to infer affinities among african populations

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 829-846

  Scozzari, Rosaria ^a   Cruciani, Fulvio ^a   Santolamazza, Piero ^a   Malaspina, Patrizia ^b   Torroni, Antonio ^a,c   Sellitto, Daniele ^a   Arredi, Barbara ^a   Destro Bisol, Giovanni ^a   De Stefano, Gianfranco ^b   Rickards, Olga ^b   Martinez Labarga, Cristina ^b   Modiano, David ^a   Biondi, Gianfranco ^d   Moral, Pedro ^e   Olckers, Antonel ^f   Wallace, Douglas C ^g   Novelletto, Andrea ^b,h  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^g EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AFRICA; ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033362751     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302538     Document Type: Article

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