Genetic evidence for a family-based Scandinavian settlement of Shetland and Orkney during the Viking periods

Heredity

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 129-135

  Goodacre, S ^a,d   Helgason, A ^b   Nicholson, J ^a   Southam, L ^a   Ferguson, L ^a   Hickey, E ^a   Vega, E ^a   Stefansson K ^b   Ward, R ^c   Sykes, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mitochondria; Orkney; Scandinavian settlement; Shetland; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ARTICLE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; PEDIGREE; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ORKNEY; SCOTLAND; SHETLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 23644437652     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800661     Document Type: Article

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