Ancestral Stories of Ghanaian Bimoba Reflect Millennia-Old Genetic Lineages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Sanchez Faddeev, Hernando ^a   Pijpe, Jeroen ^a   van Bodegom, David ^b   van der Hulle, Tom ^a   van der Gaag, Kristiaan J ^a   Eriksson, Ulrika K ^a   Spear, Thomas ^c   Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a,b   de Knijff, Peter ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BIMOBA; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GHANA; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SIMULATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; GHANA; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS;

EID: 84878943079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065690     Document Type: Article

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