The African contribution to the present-day population of the Azores Islands (Portugal): Analysis of the Y chromosome haplogroup E

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 854-860

  Neto, Domingos ^a   Montiel, Rafael ^a   Bettencourt, Conceição ^a   Santos, Cristina ^a   Prata, Maria J ^b   Lima, Manuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICA; AZORES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 36048987967     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20651     Document Type: Article

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