Discordant patterns of mtDNA and ethno-linguistic variation in 14 iranian ethnic groups

Human Heredity

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 73-84

  Farjadian, S ^a,b   Sazzini, M ^d   Tofanelli, S ^f   Castri L ^d   Taglioli, L ^f   Pettener, D ^d   Ghaderi, A ^a,c   Romeo, G ^e   Luiselli, D ^d  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human population genetics; Iranian ethnic groups; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGENY; RELIGION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IRAN; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80052561634     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: 14230062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330166     Document Type: Article

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