Subgenotype A1 of HBV - Tracing human migrations in and out of Africa

Antiviral Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 3 PARTB, 2013, Pages 513-521

  Kramvis, Anna ^a   Paraskevis, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYESIAN LEARNING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAITI; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INDIA; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AFRICA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84879627425     PISSN: 13596535     EISSN: 20402058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3851/IMP2657     Document Type: Article

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