The Human Genetic History of Oceania: Near and Remote Views of Dispersal

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Kayser, Manfred ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ABORIGINE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIGRATION; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; OCEANIA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP;

EID: 76749144548     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.12.004     Document Type: Review

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