A melting pot of multicontinental mtDNA lineages in admixed Venezuelans

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 78-87

  Gõmez Carballa, Alberto ^a   Ignacio Veiga, Ana ^a   Úlvarez Iglesias, Vanesa ^a   Pastoriza Mourelle, Ana ^a   Ruíz, Yarimar ^a   Pineda, Lennie ^a   Carracedo, Úngel ^a,b   Salas, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ZULIA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

coding region; entire genomes; haplogroup; HVS I II; phylogeny; SNPs

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLESIOMORPHY; VENEZUELA;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BAYES THEOREM; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VENEZUELA;

EID: 83655202763     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21629     Document Type: Article

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