Contrasting signatures of population growth for mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes among human populations in Africa

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 517-525

  Pilkington, Maya Metni ^a   Wilder, Jason A ^b,c   Mendez, Fernando L ^a   Cox, Murray P ^b   Woerner, August ^b   Angui, Thiep ^b   Kingan, Sarah ^b   Mobasher, Zahra ^b   Batini, Chiara ^d,h   Destro Bisol, Giovanni ^d,e   Soodyall, Himla ^f   Strassmann, Beverly I ^g   Hammer, Michael F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e Istituto Italiano di Antropologia   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Homo sapiens; Hunter gatherer; mtDNA; NRY; Population growth; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BASE PAIRING; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; MALE; NATURAL SELECTION; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 39749187573     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm279     Document Type: Article

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