Maternal and paternal lineages in Albania and the genetic structure of Indo-European populations

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 480-486

  Belledi, Michele ^a   Poloni, Estella S ^b   Casalotti, Rosa ^a   Conterio, Franco ^a   Mikerezi, Ilia ^c   Tagliavini, James ^a   Excoffier, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

Author keywords

Albania; AMOVA; Human genetic diversity; Linguistics; Mitochondrial DNA; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALBANIA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALBANIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033921231     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200443     Document Type: Article

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