The matrilineal ancestry of Ashkenazi Jewry: Portrait of a recent founder event

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 487-497

  Behar, Doron M ^a   Metspalu, Ene ^b   Kivisild, Toomas ^b   Achilli, Alessandro ^c   Hadid, Yarin ^a   Tzur, Shay ^a   Pereira, Luisa ^d   Amorim, Antonio ^d   Quintana Murci, Lluis ^e   Majamaa, Kari ^f   Herrnstadt, Corinna ^g   Howell, Neil ^g   Balanovsky, Oleg ^b,h   Kutuev, Ildus ^b,i   Pshenichnov, Andrey ^b,h   Gurwitz, David ^j   Bonne Tamir, Batsheva ^j   Torroni, Antonio ^c   Villems, Richard ^b   Skorecki, Karl ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^g Migenix Inc   (United States)

^h RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^j TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASHKENAZI JEW; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JEW; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33344474976     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500307     Document Type: Article

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