An alternative model for the early peopling of Southern South America revealed by analyses of three mitochondrial DNA haplogroups

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  De Saint Pierre, Michelle ^a,b   Bravi, Claudio M ^c   Motti, Josefina M B ^c   Fuku, Noriyuki ^d   Tanaka, Masashi ^d   Llop, Elena ^b   Bonatto, Sandro L ^e   Moraga, Mauricio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^e PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL LINEAGE; CHILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DYNAMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; FUEGIAN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MONOPHYLY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATAGONIAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AMERICAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME;

BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION RATE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84871112564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043486     Document Type: Article

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