Y-chromosome analysis of ancient Hungarian and two modern Hungarian-speaking populations from the Carpathian Basin

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 519-534

  Csányi, Bernadett ^a   Bogacsi Szabo E ^b   Tomory Gy ^b   Czibula, A ^a   Priskin, K ^a   Csosz A ^b   Mende, B ^b   Lango P ^b   Csete, K ^c   Zsolnai, A ^d   Conant, E K ^e   Downes, C S ^e   Rasko I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^d SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Hungarians; Szeklers; Tat; Y chromosome haplogroups

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; TYROSINE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BONE TISSUE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUNGARY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 45749121175     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2008.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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