MtDNA profile of West Africa Guineans: Towards a better understanding of the Senegambia region

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 340-352

  Rosa, Alexandra ^a,b   Brehm, António ^b   Kivisild, Toomas ^a   Metspalu, Ene ^a   Villems, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GUINEA-BISSAU; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SUDAN;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; GUINEA-BISSAU; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

SIGANUS;

EID: 4444308927     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2004.00100.x     Document Type: Article

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