MtDNA evidence for a genetic bottleneck in the early history of the Ashkenazi Jewish population

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 355-364

  Behar, Doron M ^a   Hammer, Michael F ^b   Garrigan, Daniel ^b   Villems, Richard ^c   Bonne Tamir, Batsheva ^d   Richards, Martin ^e   Gurwitz, David ^d   Rosengarten, Dror ^a   Kaplan, Matthew ^b   Della Pergola, Sergio ^f   Quintana Murci, Lluis ^g   Skorecki, Karl ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Ashkenazi; Bottleneck; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EUROPE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTROGRESSION; JEW; MALE; MIGRATION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JEWS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 1542293854     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201156     Document Type: Article

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