Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans

BMC Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Metspalu, Mait ^a   Kivisild, Toomas ^a   Metspalu, Ene ^a   Parik, Jüri ^a   Hudjashov, Georgi ^a   Kaldma, Katrin ^a   Serk, Piia ^a   Karmin, Monika ^a   Behar, Doron M ^b   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^f   Endicott, Phillip ^g   Mastana, Sarabjit ^d   Papiha, Surinder S ^e   Skorecki, Karl ^b   Torroni, Antonio ^c   Villems, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLADISTICS; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE CONTROL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; INDIAN; INHERITANCE; IRAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLUM; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

EID: 25444434143     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-5-26     Document Type: Article

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