Counting the founders: The matrilineal genetic ancestry of the Jewish Diaspora

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Behar, Doron M ^a   Metspalu, Ene ^b   Kivisilid, Toomas ^b,c   Rosset, Saharon ^d   Tzur, Shay ^a,e   Hadid, Yarin ^a,e   Yudkovsky, Guennady ^e   Rosengarten, Dror ^e   Pereira, Luisa ^f,g   Amorim, Antonio ^f   Kutuev, Ildus ^b,h   Gurwitz, David ⁱ   Bonne Tamir, Batsheva ⁱ   Villems, Richard ^b   Skorecki, Karl ^a,e  

^a Molecular Medicine Laboratory   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^g University of Porto   (Portugal)

^h INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IRAN; IRAQ; JEW; MOROCCO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENEALOGY; GENETICS; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTHER;

BABYLONIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; HUMANS; JEWS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHERS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 43049175775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002062     Document Type: Article

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