The initial peopling of the Americas: A growing number of founding mitochondrial genomes from Beringia

Genome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1174-1179

  Perego, Ugo A ^a,b   Angerhofer, Norman ^a   Pala, Maria ^b   Olivieri, Anna ^b   Lancioni, Hovirag ^c   Kashani, Baharak Hooshiar ^b   Carossa, Valeria ^b   Ekins, Jayne E ^a   Gómez Carballa, Alberto ^d   Huber, Gabriela ^e   Zimmermann, Bettina ^e   Corach, Daniel ^f   Babudri, Nora ^c   Panara, Fausto ^c   Myres, Natalie M ^a   Parson, Walther ^e   Semino, Ornella ^b   Salas, Antonio ^d   Woodward, Scott R ^a   Achilli, Alessandro ^b,c   Torroni, Antonio ^b   more..

^a Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^e INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMERICAS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 77956276607     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.109231.110     Document Type: Article

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