Genomic microsatellites identify shared Jewish ancestry intermediate between Middle Eastern and European populations

BMC Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kopelman, Naama M ^a   Stone, Lewi ^a   Wang, Chaolong ^b   Gefel, Dov ^c   Feldman, Marcus W ^d   Hillel, Jossi ^e   Rosenberg, Noah A ^b,f  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Barzilai Hospital   (Israel)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JEW; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MIDDLE EAST; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

EUROPE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; JEWS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 73249132603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-10-80     Document Type: Article

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