mtDNA and the Islands of the North Atlantic: Estimating the proportions of Norse and Gaelic ancestry

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 723-737

  Helgason, Agnar ^a,b   Hickey, Eileen ^a   Goodacre, Sara ^a   Bosnes, Vidar ^c   Stefánsson, Kári ^b   Ward, Ryk ^a   Sykes, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ICELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0035092776     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318785     Document Type: Article

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