Mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity in a sedentary population from Egypt

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-39

  Stevanovitch, A ^a,f   Gilles, A ^b   Bouzaid, E ^a   Kefi, R ^a   Paris, F ^c   Gayraud, R P ^d   Spadoni, J L ^a   El Chenawi, F ^e   Beraud Colomb E ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Tunis   (Tunisia)

^d UMR 7298   (France)

^e MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^f Centre Universitaire des Saints Pères   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOLOGY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; LIFESTYLE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1242275121     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.00057.x     Document Type: Article

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