Genetic architecture of a small, recently aggregated aleut population: Bering Island, Russia

Human Biology

Volumn 82, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 719-736

  Rubicz, Rohina ^a   Zlojutro, Mark ^a   Sun, Guangyun ^b   Spitsyn, Victor ^c   Deka, Ranjan ^b   Young, Kristin L ^d   Crawford, Michael H ^e  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture; Aleuts; Autosomal strs; Bering Island; Classic genetic markers; Genetic drift; Mtdna haplogroups; Y Chromosome haplogroups

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751653790     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.082.0512     Document Type: Article

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