The Levant versus the Horn of Africa: Evidence for Bidirectional Corridors of Human Migrations

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 532-544

  Luis, J R ^a,b   Rowold, D J ^a   Regueiro, M ^b   Caeiro, B ^b   Cinnioglu C ^c   Roseman, C ^c   Underhill, P A ^c   Cavalli Sforza, L L ^c   Herrera, Rene J ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALLELISM; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARAB; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EGYPT; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKER GENE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; OMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 1542344373     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382286     Document Type: Article

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