Uniparental Genetic Heritage of Belarusians: Encounter of Rare Middle Eastern Matrilineages with a Central European Mitochondrial DNA Pool

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Kushniarevich, Alena ^a   Sivitskaya, Larysa ^b   Danilenko, Nina ^b   Novogrodskii, Tadeush ^c   Tsybovsky, Iosif ^d   Kiseleva, Anna ^d   Kotova, Svetlana ^d   Chaubey, Gyaneshwer ^a   Metspalu, Ene ^e   Sahakyan, Hovhannes ^a,f   Bahmanimehr, Ardeshir ^f   Reidla, Maere ^e   Rootsi, Siiri ^a   Parik, Jüri ^a,e   Reisberg, Tuuli ^a,e   Achilli, Alessandro ^g   Hooshiar Kashani, Baharak ^h   Gandini, Francesca ^h   Olivieri, Anna ^h   Behar, Doron M ⁱ   Torroni, Antonio ^h   Davydenko, Oleg ^b   Villems, Richard ^e,j   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND CYTOLOGY   (Belarus)

^c BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^d Institute of Criminalistics and Forensic Expertise   (Belarus)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

ⁱ Molecular Medicine Laboratory   (Israel)

^j ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EUROPEAN UNION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHERITANCE; MALE; MITOGENESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE POOL; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS;

EID: 84879036258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066499     Document Type: Article

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