Genetic history of the population of Corsica (Western Mediterranean) as inferred from autosomal STR analysis

Human Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 229-251

  Tofanelli, Sergio ^a   Taglioli, Luca ^a   Varesi, Laurent ^b   Paoli, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

Author keywords

CD4; Corsica; CSF1PO; D3S1358; F13A1; FES; Genetic structure; Mediterranean basin populations; Peopling; Short tandem repeats (STRS); TH01; TPOX; VWA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 3543028049     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2004.0038     Document Type: Article

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