First genetic insight into Libyan Tuaregs: A maternal perspective

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 438-448

  Ottoni, Claudio ^a   Martínez Labarga, Cristina ^a   Loogväli, Eva Liis ^b   Pennarun, Erwan ^b   Achilli, Alessandro ^c   De Angelis, Flavio ^a   Trucchi, Emiliano ^a   Contini, Irene ^a   Biondi, Gianfranco ^d   Rickards, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central Sahara; Libyan Tuaregs; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA STRUCTURE; ETHNIC GROUP; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERVARIABLE SEGMENT 1; HYPERVARIABLE SEGMENT 2; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUAREG;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; LIBYA; MALE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 67149107260     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2009.00526.x     Document Type: Article

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