Admixture and sexual bias in the population settlement of La Réunion island (Indian Ocean)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 100-107

  Berniell Lee, Gemma ^a   Plaza, Stéphanie ^a   Bosch, Elena ^a,b   Calafell, Francesc ^a,b   Jourdan, Eric ^c   Césari, Maya ^d   Lefranc, Gérard ^e   Comas, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

Asymmetrical gene flow; Founder effects; Mixed ancestry; mtDNA; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE POOL; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; REUNION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; REUNION;

EID: 42149194354     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20783     Document Type: Article

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