Substructure of a Tunisian berber population as inferred from 15 autosomal short tandem repeat loci

Human Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 435-448

  Khodjet El Khil, Houssein ^a   Fadhlaoui Zid, Karima ^a   Gusmão, Leonor ^b   Alves, Cíntia ^b   Benammar Elgaaied, Amel ^a   Amorim, Antonio ^b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Berbers; CSF1PO; D13S317; D16S539; D18S51; D19S433; D21S11; D2S1338; D3S1358; D5S818; D7S820; D8S1179; FGA; North Africa; Population structure; STR; TH01; TPOX; Tunisia; VWA

Indexed keywords

MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; ETHNICITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; POPULATION; POPULATION GENETICS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; TUNISIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; STATISTICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; TUNISIA;

EID: 67849102299     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/1534-6617-80.4.435     Document Type: Article

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