Paternal and maternal lineages in the Balkans show a homogeneous landscape over linguistic barriers, except for the isolated Aromuns

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 459-487

  Bosch, E ^a   Calafell, F ^a   Gonzalez Neira A ^a,h   Flaiz, C ^a,b   Mateu, E ^a   Scheil, H G ^c   Huckenbeck, W ^c   Efremovska, L ^d   Mikerezi, I ^e   Xirotiris, N ^f   Grasa, C ^g   Schmidt, H ^b   Comas, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY OF SKOPJE   (Macedonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

^f DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^g OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^h Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Balkan Peninsula; Genetic variation; Mitochondrial DNA; Population genetics; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LINGUISTICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 32944479480     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2005.00251.x     Document Type: Article

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