Mitochondrial DNA transit between West Asia and North Africa inferred from U6 phylogeography

BMC Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Maca Meyer, Nicole ^a   González, Ana M ^a   Pestano, José ^b   Flores, Carlos ^a   Larruga, José M ^a   Cabrera, Vicente M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ASIA, WESTERN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR;

EID: 2442701588     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-4-15     Document Type: Article

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