Linking Italy and the Balkans. A Y-chromosome perspective from the Arbereshe of Calabria

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-68

  Boattini, Alessio ^a   Luiselli, Donata ^a   Sazzini, Marco ^a   Useli, Antonella ^a   Tagarelli, Giuseppe ^b   Pettener, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

linguistic minorities; sampling strategies; STRs; surnames; UEPs

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANGUAGE; MINORITY GROUP; SAMPLING;

ALBANIA; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ITALY; NOMENCLATURE; PEDIGREE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALBANIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; ITALY; NAMES; PEDIGREE;

EID: 77957887075     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2010.491837     Document Type: Article

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