Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in Southern Arabia from the perspective of human mtDNA variation

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 291-298

  Al Abri, Abdulrahim ^a   Podgorná, Eliška ^b   Rose, Jeffrey I ^c   Pereira, Luísa ^d,e   Mulligan, Connie J ^f   Silva, Nuno M ^d   Bayoumi, Riad ^a   Soares, Pedro ^d   Černý, Viktor ^g,h  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e University of Porto   (Portugal)

^f University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^h Institute for Advanced Study   (France)

Author keywords

Arabian Peninsula; migrations; mtDNA variation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; BAYESIAN LEARNING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BAYES THEOREM; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; OMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; YEMEN;

EID: 84866345742     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22131     Document Type: Article

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