Harvesting the fruit of the human mtDNA tree

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 339-345

  Torroni, Antonio ^a   Achilli, Alessandro ^a   Macaulay, Vincent ^b   Richards, Martin ^c   Bandelt, Hans Jürgen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION GROUPS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33646929523     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2006.04.001     Document Type: Review

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