Mixed origin of the current Tunisian population from the analysis of Alu and Alu/STR compound systems

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 827-833

  El Moncer, Wifak ^a   Esteban, Esther ^b   Bahri, Raoudha ^a   Gay Vidal, Magdalena ^b   Carreras Torres, Robert ^b   Athanasiadis, Georgios ^b   Moral, Pedro ^b   Chaabani, Hassen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alu insertion polymorphisms; Alu STR haplotypes; human populations; Tunisians

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALU GENE; ALU STR GENE; ARTICLE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POPULATION GENETICS; TUNISIA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALU ELEMENTS; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; POPULATION; TUNISIA;

EID: 78650572202     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2010.120     Document Type: Article

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