Genetic diversity in India and the inference of Eurasian population expansion

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Xing, Jinchuan ^a   Watkins, W Scott ^a   Hu, Ya ^b   Huff, Chad D ^a   Sabo, Aniko ^b   Muzny, Donna M ^b   Bamshad, Michael J ^c   Gibbs, Richard A ^b   Jorde, Lynn B ^a   Yu, Fuli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INDIA; MIGRATION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ETHNIC GROUP; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 78549275442     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-11-r113     Document Type: Article

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