The mystery of Etruscan origins: Novel clues from Bos taurus mitochondrial DNA

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1614, 2007, Pages 1175-1179

  Pellecchia, Marco ^a   Negrini, Riccardo ^a   Colli, Licia ^a   Patrini, Massimiliano ^a   Milanesi, Elisabetta ^a,f   Achilli, Alessandro ^b   Bertorelle, Giorgio ^c   Cavalli Sforza, Luigi L ^d   Piazza, Alberto ^e   Torroni, Antonio ^b   Ajmone Marsan, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bos taurus; Etruscans; Homo sapiens; Mitochondrial DNA; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CULTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ARTICLE; BOS TAURUS; BREEDING; CIVILIZATION; COW; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EUROPE; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ITALY; LIVESTOCK; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHILOSOPHY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BOS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 34447337792     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0258     Document Type: Article

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