Identification of Native American founder mtDNAs through the analysis of complete mtDNA sequences: Some caveats

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 512-524

  Bandelt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Herrnstadt, C ^b   Yao, Y G ^c   Kong, Q P ^c   Kivisild, T ^d,e   Rengo, C ^f   Scozzari, R ^g   Richards, M ^h   Villems, R ^d   Macaulay, V ⁱ   Howell, N ^b,j   Torroni, A ^k   Zhang, Y P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Migenix Inc   (United States)

^c KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOUNDER EFFECT; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141965402     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-1809.2003.00049.x     Document Type: Article

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