Mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome diversity and the peopling of the Americas: Evolutionary and demographic evidence

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 420-439

  Schurr, Theodore G ^a   Sherry, Stephen T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHILE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; Y CHROMOSOME;

AMERICAS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, EARLY MODERN 1451-1600; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; SIBERIA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 3442886310     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20041     Document Type: Article

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