Mitochondrial DNA Variation and the Origins of the Aleuts

Human Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 809-835

  Rubicz, Rohina ^a   Schurr, Theodore G ^b   Babb, Paul L ^b   Crawford, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Haplogroups; mtDNA; Native Americans; Peopling of Americas; Sequences; Siberians

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESKIMO; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA REPLICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING;

EID: 1242343800     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2004.0009     Document Type: Article

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