Concomitant Replacement of Language and mtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 668-673

  Nasidze, Ivan ^a   Quinque, Dominique ^a   Rahmani, Manijeh ^b   Alemohamad, Seyed Ali ^c   Stoneking, Mark ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IRAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IRAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 33645858749     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.021     Document Type: Article

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