The molecular genetics of European ancestry

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1379, 1999, Pages 131-139

  Sykes, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Europe; MtDNA; Neolithic; Palaeolithic; Phylogeny; Polynesia

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033613643     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0366     Document Type: Article

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