A mitochondrial revelation of early human migrations to the Tibetan Plateau before and after the last glacial maximum

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 555-569

  Qin, Zhendong ^a   Yang, Yajun ^a,b   Kang, Longli ^a,c   Yan, Shi ^d   Cho, Kelly ^e   Cai, Xiaoyun ^a   Lu, Yan ^a   Zheng, Hongxiang ^a   Zhu, Dongchen ^a   Fei, Dongmei ^a   Li, Shilin ^a   Jin, Li ^a,b,d   Li, Hui ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Bureau Group Co Ltd   (China)

^c XIZANG MINZU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

complete sequence; last glacial maximum; mitochondrial DNA; the Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GLACIAL PERIOD; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBET;

EID: 78649651559     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21350     Document Type: Article

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