Mitochondrial DNA of ancient Cumanians: Culturally Asian steppe nomadic immigrants with substantially more western Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages

Human Biology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 639-662

  Bogácsi Szabó, Erika ^a   Kalmár, Tibor ^a   Csányi, Bernadett ^a   Tömöry, Gyöngyvér ^a   Czibula, Ágnes ^a   Priskin, Katalin ^a   Horváth, Ferenc ^b   Downes, Christopher Stephen ^c   Raskó, István ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b Móra Ferenc Museum of Szeged   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient mtDNA; Cumanians; Hungarians; HVS I; HVS II; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA BASE; EUROPE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUNGARY; IMMIGRANT; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 33644862393     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2006.0007     Document Type: Article

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