Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome variation in Ashkenazi Jewish and host non-Jewish European populations

Human Genetics

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 354-365

  Behar, Doron M ^a   Garrigan, Daniel ^b   Kaplan, Matthew E ^b   Mobasher, Zahra ^b   Rosengarten, Dror ^a   Karafet, Tatiana M ^b   Quintana Murci, Lluis ^c   Ostrer, Harry ^d   Skorecki, K ^a   Hammer, Michael F ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 12144291681     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-003-1073-7     Document Type: Article

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