Unravelling migrations in the steppe: Mitochondrial DNA sequences from ancient Central Asians

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1542, 2004, Pages 941-947

  Lalueza Fox, C ^a,b   Sampietro, M L ^b   Gilbert, M T P ^c,e   Castri, L ^d   Facchini, F ^d   Pettener, D ^d   Bertranpetit, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Central Asia; Mitochondrial DNA; Past migrations

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFORMATION; KAZAKHSTAN; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARDIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; KAZAKHSTAN; WEST ASIA;

EID: 2342487348     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2698     Document Type: Article

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