Mobile elements reveal small population size in the ancient ancestors of Homo sapiens

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2147-2152

  Huff, Chad D ^a   Xing, Jinchuan ^a   Rogers, Alan R ^b   Witherspoon, David ^a   Jorde, Lynn B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alu; Coalescent theory; Human effective population size; Human evolutionary history; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENE INSERTION; GENEALOGY; HOMINID; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

HOMO SAPIENS; PAN;

EID: 77954552478     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909000107     Document Type: Article

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