Y-Chromosome Diversity in Modern Bulgarians: New Clues about Their Ancestry

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Karachanak, Sena ^a,b   Grugni, Viola ^b   Fornarino, Simona ^b   Nesheva, Desislava ^a   Al Zahery, Nadia ^b   Battaglia, Vincenza ^b   Carossa, Valeria ^b   Yordanov, Yordan ^c   Torroni, Antonio ^b   Galabov, Angel S ^d   Toncheva, Draga ^a   Semino, Ornella ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c Institute of Experimental Morphology and Anthropology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences   (Bulgaria)

^d INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLACK SEA; BULGARIA; CAUCASIAN; FARMING SYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE POOL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLACIAL PERIOD; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MALE; MESOLITHIC; MIDDLE EAST; MODERN TIMES; NEOLITHIC; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLESIOMORPHY; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SOUTH ASIA; Y CHROMOSOME;

BULGARIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874601382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056779     Document Type: Article

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