Distinctive Paleo-Indian Migration Routes from Beringia Marked by Two Rare mtDNA Haplogroups

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Perego, Ugo A ^a,b   Achilli, Alessandro ^a,c   Angerhofer, Norman ^b   Accetturo, Matteo ^a   Pala, Maria ^a   Olivieri, Anna ^a   Kashani, Baharak Hooshiar ^a   Ritchie, Kathleen H ^b   Scozzari, Rosaria ^d   Kong, Qing Peng ^e,f   Myres, Natalie M ^b   Salas, Antonio ^g   Semino, Ornella ^a   Bandelt, Hans Jürgen ^h   Woodward, Scott R ^b   Torroni, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^f YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA; EVO_ECOL; HUMDISEASE

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 58549117665     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.058     Document Type: Article

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