The imprint of the slave trade in an african American population: Mitochondrial DNA, y chromosome and HTLV-1 analysis in the noir marron of French Guiana

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Brucato, Nicolas ^a   Cassar, Olivier ^b   Tonasso, Laure ^a   Tortevoye, Patricia ^b   Migot Nabias, Florence ^c   Plancoulaine, Sabine ^b,d   Guitard, Evelyne ^a   Larrouy, Georges ^a   Gessain, Antoine ^b   Dugoujon, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL PROBLEM; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 77957913653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-314     Document Type: Article

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