Rapid deployment of the five founding amerind mtDNA haplogroups via coastal and riverine colonization

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 430-436

  Fix, Alan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization route; Computer simulation model; Migration; New World

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSENSUS; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANISM COLONY; RIVER; SEASHORE; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MODELS, GENETIC; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANS AND SEAS; RIVERS; SOUTH AMERICA; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 26044465058     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20230     Document Type: Article

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