Mitochondrial echoes of first settlement and genetic continuity in El Salvador

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Salas, Antonio ^a   Lovo Gómez, José ^a,b   Álvarez Iglesias, Vanesa ^a   Cerezo, María ^a   Lareu, María Victoria ^a   Macaulay, Vincent ^c   Richards, Martin B ^d   Carracedo, Ángel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Medicina Legal Dr Roberto Masferrer   (El Salvador)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; EL SALVADOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; BAYES THEOREM; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS;

BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EL SALVADOR; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 70149097329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006882     Document Type: Article

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