Assessment of Azorean ancestry by Alu insertion polymorphisms

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 223-226

  Branco, Claudia C ^a,b   Palla, Raquel ^a   Lino, Sílvia ^a   Pacheco, Paula R ^a,b   Cabral, Rita ^a,b   De Fez, Laura ^a   Peixoto, Bernardo R ^a,b   Mota Vieira, Luisa ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DO DIVINO ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR MARKER;

ALGERIA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BLOOD DONOR; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOROCCO; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; OUTBREEDING; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION GENETICS; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALU ELEMENTS; AZORES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, Y-LINKED; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PORTUGAL;

EID: 33645559802     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20492     Document Type: Article

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