Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 165-183

  Pakendorf, Brigitte ^a   Stoneking, Mark ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Maternal inheritance; Mutation rate; Polymorphism; Recombination

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

BASE PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; Y CHROMOSOME;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 22144497723     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.6.080604.162249     Document Type: Review

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