Uniparental Markers of Contemporary Italian Population Reveals Details on Its Pre-Roman Heritage

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Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Brisighelli, Francesca ^a,b,c   Álvarez Iglesias, Vanesa ^a   Fondevila, Manuel ^a   Blanco Verea, Alejandro ^a   Carracedo, Ángel ^a,d   Pascali, Vincenzo L ^b   Capelli, Cristian ^c   Salas, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMIGRANT; INHERITANCE; ITALY; LATITUDE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEOLITHIC; NORTH AFRICA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84870885991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050794     Document Type: Article

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