Genetic evidence concerning the origins of South and North Ossetians

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 588-599

  Nasidze, I ^a   Quinque, D ^a   Dupanloup, I ^b   Rychkov, S ^c   Naumova, O ^c   Zhukova, O ^c   Stoneking, M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

mtDNA; Ossetians; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRAN; LANGUAGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; RUSSIA;

IRANIA;

EID: 11144308292     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2004.00131.x     Document Type: Article

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