Y-chromosome O3 Haplogroup Diversity in Sino-Tibetan Populations Reveals Two Migration Routes into the Eastern Himalayas

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 92-99

  Kang, Longli ^a,b   Lu, Yan ^a   Wang, Chuanchao ^a   Hu, Kang ^b   Chen, Feng ^b   Liu, Kai ^c   Li, Shilin ^a,d   Jin, Li ^a,d   Li, Hui ^a,d  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIZANG MINZU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Tibet College for Vocational Technologies   (China)

^d CMC Institute of Health Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian; Human migration; Population genetics; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAR EAST; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TIBET;

EID: 84155186331     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2011.00690.x     Document Type: Article

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