Out of Arabia-The settlement of island soqotra as revealed by mitochondrial and y chromosome genetic diversity

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 439-447

  Černý, Viktor ^a   Pereira, Luísa ^b,c   Kujanová, Martina ^d   Vašíková, Alžběta ^e   Hájek, Martin ^a   Morris, Miranda ^f   Mulligan, Connie J ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c University of Porto   (Portugal)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^g University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Migrations; MtDNA and NRY diversity; Phylogeography; Regional sampling; Southern Arabia

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MITOCHONDRION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICA; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ARABIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 63449089654     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20960     Document Type: Article

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