Genomic ancestry of North Africans supports back-to-Africa migrations

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Henn, Brenna M ^a   Botigué, Laura R ^b   Gravel, Simon ^a   Wang, Wei ^c   Brisbin, Abra ^c   Byrnes, Jake K ^a   Fadhlaoui Zid, Karima ^d   Zalloua, Pierre A ^e   Moreno Estrada, Andres ^a   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^b   Bustamante, Carlos D ^a   Comas, David ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^e LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIGENT; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MOROCCO; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION REGULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CAUCASIAN; EGYPT; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENE POOL; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRATION; NEGRO; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICA, NORTHERN; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EGYPT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FLOW; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; MOROCCO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84857462303     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002397     Document Type: Article

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