Worldwide analysis of multiple microsatellites: Language diversity has a detectable influence on DNA diversity

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1137-1146

  Belle, Elise M S ^a   Barbujani, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Genetic diversity; Linguistics; Microsatellite loci; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 34547416660     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20622     Document Type: Article

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