Reconstructing the Indian origin and dispersal of the european Roma: A maternal genetic perspective

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Mendizabal, Isabel ^a   Valente, Cristina ^b   Gusmão, Alfredo ^b   Alves, Cíntia ^b   Gomes, Verónica ^b   Goios, Ana ^b   Parson, Walther ^c   Calafell, Francesc ^a,d   Alvarez, Luis ^b   Amorim, António ^b   Gusmão, Leonor ^b   Comas, David ^a,d   Prata, Maria João ^b  

^a Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL COMPOSITION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; ITALY; MATERNAL GENETICS; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION SIZE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FOUNDER EFFECT; GIPSY; GLAUCOMA; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; GLAUCOMA; GYPSIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MUTATION;

EID: 79251592836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015988     Document Type: Article

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