Genome-Wide Diversity in the Levant Reveals Recent Structuring by Culture

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Haber, Marc ^a,b   Gauguier, Dominique ^c,d   Youhanna, Sonia ^b   Patterson, Nick ^e   Moorjani, Priya ^f   Botigué, Laura R ^a   Platt, Daniel E ^g   Matisoo Smith, Elizabeth ^h   Soria Hernanz, David F ⁱ   Wells, R Spencer ⁱ   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^a   Tyler Smith, Chris ^j   Comas, David ^a   Zalloua, Pierre A ^b,k  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DES CORDELIERS   (France)

^e BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

ⁱ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^j WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^k HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLACIAL PERIOD; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRATIFICATION;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ARCHAEOLOGY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84874762618     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003316     Document Type: Article

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