The making of the African mtDNA landscape

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1082-1111

  Salas, Antonio ^a,b,c   Richards, Martin ^b   De la Fe, Tomés ^a   Lareu, María Victoria ^a   Sobrino, Beatriz ^a   Sánchez Diz, Paula ^a   Macaulay, Vincent ^c   Carracedo, Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0036842649     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344348     Document Type: Article

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