Insights into the western Bantu dispersal: mtDNA lineage analysis in Angola

Human Genetics

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 439-447

  Plaza, Stéphanie ^a   Salas, Antonio ^b   Calafell, Francesc ^a   Corte Real, Francisco ^c   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^a   Carracedo, Ángel ^b   Comas, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE MEDICINA LEGAL E CIÊNCIAS FORENSES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

AFRICA; ANGOLA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DOCUMENTATION; GENE FLOW; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIN FOREST; SAMPLE; SAVANNA; TANDEM REPEAT;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANGOLA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE POOL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 5044247064     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-004-1164-0     Document Type: Article

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