High level of male-biased Scandinavian admixture in Greenlandic Inuit shown by Y-chromosomal analysis

Human Genetics

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 353-363

  Bosch, Elena ^a   Calafell, Francesc ^b   Rosser, Zoë H ^a   Nørby, Søren ^c   Lynnerup, Niels ^c   Hurles, Matthew E ^d   Jobling, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREENLAND; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ICELAND; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDINAVIA; Y CHROMOSOME; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; DENMARK; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; NORWAY;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DENMARK; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC MARKERS; GREENLAND; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; ICELAND; INUITS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NORWAY;

EID: 0038147260     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-003-0913-9     Document Type: Article

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