Moroccan mitochondrial genetic background suggests prehistoric human migrations across the Gibraltar Strait

Mitochondrion

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 402-407

  Rhouda, Taha ^a,b,c   Martínez Redondo, Diana ^a,b   Gómez Durán, Aurora ^a,b   Elmtili, Noureddine ^c   Idaomar, Mouhamed ^c   Díez Sánchez, Carmen ^a,b   Montoya, Julio ^a,b   López Pérez, Manuel José ^a,b   Ruiz Pesini, Eduardo ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^d Fundacion Aragon I D   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gibraltar Strait; Haplogroups; mtDNA; North Africa

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GIBRALTAR; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPAIN;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; MITOCHONDRIA;

EID: 70449124425     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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