Long-range comparison between genes and languages based on syntactic distances

Human Heredity

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 245-254

  Colonna, Vincenza ^a   Boattini, Alessio ^b   Guardiano, Cristina ^c   Dall'Ara, Irene ^a   Pettener, Davide ^b   Longobardi, Giuseppe ^d   Barbujani, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio e della Cultura   (Italy)

^d Dipartimento di Storia e Culture   (Italy)

Author keywords

Demographic history; Genetic distances; Genetic drift; Microsatellite markers; SNPs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; GENE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PHYLOGENY; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 77957779570     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000317374     Document Type: Article

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