The First Peopling of South America: New Evidence from Y-Chromosome Haplogroup Q

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Battaglia, Vincenza ^a   Grugni, Viola ^a   Perego, Ugo Alessandro ^a,b   Angerhofer, Norman ^b   Gomez Palmieri, J Edgar ^b   Woodward, Scott Ray ^b,c   Achilli, Alessandro ^d   Myres, Natalie ^b,c   Torroni, Antonio ^a   Semino, Ornella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation   (United States)

^c Ancestry   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MEXICO; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SIBERIAN; SOUTH AMERICA; Y CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MONGOLIA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SIBERIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84882612748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071390     Document Type: Article

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