Little genetic differentiation as assessed by uniparental markers in the presence of substantial language variation in peoples of the Cross River region of Nigeria

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Veeramah, Krishna R ^a   Connell, Bruce A ^b   Pour, Naser Ansari ^c   Powell, Adam ^c   Plaster, Christopher A ^c   Zeitlyn, David ^d   Mendell, Nancy R ^e   Weale, Michael E ^f   Bradman, Neil ^c   Thomas, Mark G ^c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^e Stony Brook University   (United States)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NIGERIA; POPULATION GENETICS; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NIGERIA;

EID: 77950418296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-92     Document Type: Article

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