The history of african gene flow into Southern Europeans, Levantines, and Jews

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Moorjani, Priya ^a,b   Patterson, Nick ^b   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^a,b,c   Keinan, Alon ^d   Hao, Li ^e   Atzmon, Gil ^f   Burns, Edward ^f   Ostrer, Harry ^e   Price, Alkes L ^g   Reich, David ^a,b,g  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Plant Science Building   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HUMAN; JEW; MIDDLE AGES; NEGRO; NORTH AFRICA; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN GENOME; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FLOW; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JEWS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79955576507     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001373     Document Type: Article

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