Post-last glacial maximum expansion from Iberia to North Africa revealed by fine characterization of mtDNA H haplogroup in Tunisia

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 253-260

  Cherni, Lotfi ^a   Fernandes, Verónica ^b   Pereira, Joana B ^b   Costa, Marta D ^b   Goios, Ana ^b   Frigi, Sabeh ^a   Yacoubi Loueslati, Besma ^a   Amor, Mohamed Ben ^a   Slama, Abdelhakim ^c   Amorim, António ^b   El Gaaied, Amel Ben Ammar ^a   Pereira, Luísa ^b,d  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Institut Nationale de Patrimoine   (Tunisia)

^d University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Andalusians; Haplogroup H; mtDNA; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENE POOL; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORTH AFRICA; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; TUNISIA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; ICE COVER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUNISIA;

EID: 67049170892     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20979     Document Type: Article

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