Neolithic patrilineal signals indicate that the Armenian plateau was repopulated by agriculturalists

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 313-320

  Herrera, Kristian J ^a   Lowery, Robert K ^a,b   Hadden, Laura ^a   Calderon, Silvia ^a   Chiou, Carolina ^a   Yepiskoposyan, Levon ^c   Regueiro, Maria ^a   Underhill, Peter A ^d   Herrera, Rene J ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Armenia; neolithic; phylogenetics; SNPs; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARMENIA; ARTICLE; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLACIATION; GREECE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ARMENIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84857190013     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2011.192     Document Type: Article

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