A bidirectional corridor in the Sahel-Sudan belt and the distinctive features of the Chad Basin populations: A history revealed by the mitochondrial DNA genome

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 433-452

  Cerny V ^a   Salas, A ^b,d   Hajek M ^a   Zaloudkova M ^a   Brdicka R ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Czech Republic)

^d Hospital Clinico Universitario   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atlantic slave trade; Chad Basin; Haplotype; mtDNA; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHAD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NIGER; NIGERIA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDAN;

CHAD; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SUDAN;

EID: 34249949419     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2006.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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