Ancient migratory events in the Middle East: New Clues from the Y-chromosome variation of modern Iranians

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Grugni, Viola ^a   Battaglia, Vincenza ^a   Hooshiar Kashani, Baharak ^a   Parolo, Silvia ^a   Al Zahery, Nadia ^a   Achilli, Alessandro ^b   Olivieri, Anna ^a   Gandini, Francesca ^a   Houshmand, Massoud ^c   Sanati, Mohammad Hossein ^c   Torroni, Antonio ^a   Semino, Ornella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FLOW; GENE POOL; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; IRANIAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MODERN TIMES; NEOLITHIC; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864018941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041252     Document Type: Article

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