The impact of modern migrations on present-day multi-ethnic Argentina as recorded on the mitochondrial DNA genome

BMC Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Catelli, María L ^a   Álvarez Iglesias, Vanesa ^b   Gómez Carballa, Alberto ^b   Mosquera Miguel, Ana ^b   Romanini, Carola ^a   Borosky, Alicia ^c   Amigo, Jorge ^b   Carracedo, Ángel ^b   Vullo, Carlos ^a,c   Salas, Antonio ^b  

^a Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense ^*  (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; ITALY; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHYLOGENY; RURAL POPULATION; SPAIN; URBAN POPULATION; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEGRO;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARGENTINA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SPAIN;

EID: 80052105681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-12-77     Document Type: Article

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