Paternal genetic history of the basque population of Spain

Human Biology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 455-475

  Young, Kristin L ^a   Sun, Guangyun ^b   Deka, Ranjan ^b   Crawford, Michael H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Basques; Haplotypes; Population genetics; Spain; Y chromosome; Y short tandem repeat loci

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052584761     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.083.0402     Document Type: Article

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