Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Haber, Marc ^a,b   Platt, Daniel E ^c   Ashrafian Bonab, Maziar ^d   Youhanna, Sonia C ^a   Soria Hernanz, David F ^b,g   Martínez Cruz, Begoña ^b   Douaihy, Bouchra ^a   Ghassibe Sabbagh, Michella ^a   Rafatpanah, Hoshang ^e   Ghanbari, Mohsen ^e   Whale, John ^d   Balanovsky, Oleg ^f   Wells, R Spencer ^g   Comas, David ^b   Tyler Smith, Chris ^h   Zalloua, Pierre A ^a,i  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^g NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^h WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CIVILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAZARA; HUMAN; NEOLITHIC; PASHTUN; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; TAJIK; UZBEK; Y CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; Y CHROMOSOME; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AFGHANISTAN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859094446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034288     Document Type: Article

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