Biological Ancestries, Kinship Connections, and Projected Identities in Four Central Anatolian Settlements: Insights from Culturally Contextualized Genetic Anthropology

American Anthropologist

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 116-131

  Gokcumen, Ömer ^a   Gultekin, Timur ^b   Alakoc, Yesim Dogan ^b   Tug, Aysim ^b   Gulec, Erksin ^b   Schurr, Theodore G ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatolia; Ethnography; Genetics; Mitochondrial DNA; Y chromosome and autosomal STR

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; LEGAL ASPECT; PEDIGREE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ANTHROPOLOGY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FAMILY RELATIONS; GENETICS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GROUPS; TURKEY;

EID: 79951540927     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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