A novel Y-chromosome variant puts an upper limit on the timing of first entry into the Americas

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 700-705

  Seielstad, Mark ^a,c   Yuldasheva, Nadira ^b   Singh, Nadia ^a   Underhill, Peter ^d   Oefner, Peter ^d   Shen, Peidong ^d   Wells, R Spencer ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Genome Institute of Singapore ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0041761679     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/377589     Document Type: Letter

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