In search of the genetic footprints of Sumerians: A survey of Y-chromosome and mtDNA variation in the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Al Zahery, Nadia ^a   Pala, Maria ^a   Battaglia, Vincenza ^a   Grugni, Viola ^a   Hamod, Mohammed A ^b,c   Kashani, Baharak ^a   Olivieri, Anna ^a   Torroni, Antonio ^a   Santachiara Benerecetti, Augusta S ^a   Semino, Ornella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD   (Iraq)

^c University   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; AUTOCHTHON; BREEDING POPULATION; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; HOMOGENEITY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RICE; WETLAND;

EUPHRATES RIVER; IRAQ; MESOPOTAMIA; TIGRIS RIVER;

BUBALUS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARAB; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IRAQ; MALE; MEDICAL GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ARABS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 80053461917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-288     Document Type: Article

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