Where West Meets East: The Complex mtDNA Landscape of the Southwest and Central Asian Corridor

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 827-845

  Quintana Murci, Lluís ^a   Chaix, Raphaëlle ^b   Wells, R Spencer ^c   Behar, Doron M ^d   Sayar, Hamid ⁱ   Scozzari, Rosaria ^e   Rengo, Chiara ^f   Al Zahery, Nadia ^f   Semino, Ornella ^f   Santachiara Benerecetti, A Silvana ^f   Coppa, Alfredo ^e   Ayub, Qasim ^g   Mohyuddin, Aisha ^g   Tyler Smith, Chris ^h   Mehdi, S Qasim ^g   Torroni, Antonio ^f   McElreavey, Ken ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^g Dr A Q Khan Research Laboratories   (Pakistan)

^h WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IRAN; MATING; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALITY; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

IRANIA;

EID: 2342575654     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383236     Document Type: Article

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