Inferring continental ancestry of argentineans from autosomal, Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-76

  Corach, Daniel ^a   Lao, Oscar ^b   Bobillo, Cecilia ^a   van Der Gaag, Kristiaan ^c   Zuniga, Sofia ^c   Vermeulen, Mark ^b   van Duijn, Kate ^b   Goedbloed, Miriam ^b   Vallone, Peter M ^d   Parson, Walther ^e   De Knijff, Peter ^c   Kayser, Manfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Argentina; Autosomal SNPs; Genetic ancestry; MtDNA; Y SNPs

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EUROPE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARGENTINA; CHROMOSOMES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE POOL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE;

EID: 72549088526     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2009.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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