Melanesian mtDNA complexity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Friedlaender, Jonathan S ^a   Friedlaender, Françoise R ^b   Hodgson, Jason A ^c,f   Stoltz, Matthew ^c   Koki, George ^d   Horvat, Gisele ^b   Zhadanov, Sergey ^e   Schurr, Theodore G ^e   Merriwether, D Andrew ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Binghamton University ^*

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; MELANESIA; MIGRATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAIWAN; ABORIGINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEGRO; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MELANESIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANIA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 55249085885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000248     Document Type: Article

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