The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7303, 2010, Pages 238-242

  Behar, Doron M ^a,b   Yunusbayev, Bayazit ^b,c   Metspalu, Mait ^b   Metspalu, Ene ^b   Rosset, Saharon ^d   Parik, Jüri ^b   Rootsi, Siiri ^b   Chaubey, Gyaneshwer ^b   Kutuev, Ildus ^b,c   Yudkovsky, Guennady ^a,e   Khusnutdinova, Elza K ^c   Balanovsky, Oleg ^f   Semino, Ornella ^g   Pereira, Luisa ^h,i   Comas, David ^j   Gurwitz, David ^d   Bonne Tamir, Batsheva ^d   Parfitt, Tudor ^k   Hammer, Michael F ^l   Skorecki, Karl ^a,e   Villems, Richard ^b   more..

^a Molecular Medicine Laboratory   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^f RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

ⁱ University of Porto   (Portugal)

^j CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DIASPORA; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RELIGION;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHIOPIA; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INDIA; ISRAEL; JEW; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ALLELES; ASIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHIOPIA; EUROPE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIA; JEWS; MIDDLE EAST; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 77954542018     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09103     Document Type: Article

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