Mitochondrial haplogroup H1 in north Africa: An early Holocene arrival from Iberia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Ottoni, Claudio ^a,b,c   Primativo, Giuseppina ^a   Kashani, Baharak Hooshiar ^d   Achilli, Alessandro ^d,e   Martínez Labarga, Cristina ^a   Biondi, Gianfranco ^d   Torroni, Antonio ^d   Rickards, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOUNDER EFFECT; HAPLOGROUP; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NORTH AFRICA; PHYLOGENY; WESTERN EUROPE; AFRICA; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPAIN;

AFRICA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SPAIN;

EID: 78149421507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013378     Document Type: Article

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