The jigsaw puzzle of our African ancestry: Unsolved, or unsolvable?

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Batini, Chiara ^a   Jobling, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARCHEOLOGY; BIOGENESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NEGRO; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; GENETICS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARCHAEOLOGY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 79959674506     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-6-118     Document Type: Note

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