Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup H structure in North Africa

BMC Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ennafaa, Hajer ^a   Cabrera, Vicente M ^b   Abu Amero, Khaled K ^c   González, Ana M ^b   Amor, Mohamed B ^a   Bouhaha, Rym ^a   Dzimiri, Nduna ^d   Elgaaïed, Amel B ^a   Larruga, José M ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAURITANIA; MOROCCO; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TUNISIA; WESTERN SAHARA; AFRICA; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 62449260976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-10-8     Document Type: Article

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