Croatian genetic heritage: Y-chromosome story

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 225-234

  Primorac, Dragan ^a,b,c,d   Marjanovic, Damir ^e,f   Rudan, Pavao ^g,h   Villems, Richard ⁱ   Underhill, Peter A ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

^e Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^f GENOS GLYCOSCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Croatia)

^g Institute for Anthropology   (Croatia)

^h CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CROATIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GLACIAL PERIOD; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PROGENY; SCIENTIST; Y CHROMOSOME;

AGRICULTURE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CROATIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 80051930127     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2011.52.225     Document Type: Article

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