Genetic structure of the ancestral population of modern humans

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 146-155

  Ziȩtkiewicz, Ewa ^a   Yotova, Vania ^a   Jarnik, Michal ^a,f   Korab Laskowska, Maria ^a,g   Kidd, Kenneth K ^b   Modiano, David ^c   Scozzari, Rosaria ^c   Stoneking, Mark ^d   Tishkoff, Sarah ^b,d   Batzer, Mark ^e   Labuda, Damian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA polymorphisms; Dystrophin locus; Human evolution; Mutation rate; Neutral evolution; Population size

Indexed keywords

DNA; DYSTROPHIN;

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS;

EID: 15144359446     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006371     Document Type: Article

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