Turkish Population Structure and Genetic Ancestry Reveal Relatedness among Eurasian Populations

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 128-141

  Hodoǧlugil, Uǧur ^a   Mahley, Robert W ^a,b  

^a GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture; Ancestry; Human Genome Diversity Panel; Kyrgyz; Population genetics; Population structure; Turks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION GROUPS; TURKEY;

EID: 84856841096     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2011.00701.x     Document Type: Article

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