The phylogeny of the four pan-American MtDNA haplogroups: Implications for evolutionary and disease studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Achilli, Alessandro ^a,b   Perego, Ugo A ^a,c   Bravi, Claudio M ^d   Coble, Michael D ^e   Kong, Qing Peng ^f,g   Woodward, Scott R ^c   Salas, Antonio ^h   Torroni, Antonio ^a   Bandelt, Hans Jürgen ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation   (United States)

^d Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Celular   (Argentina)

^e ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^f KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^g YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLADISTICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENBANK; HAPLOTYPE; INDIA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOUTH AMERICA; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AMERICAS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 46149121025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001764     Document Type: Article

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