Phylogenetic applications of whole y-chromosome sequences and the near eastern origin of ashkenazi levites

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Rootsi, Siiri ^a   Behar, Doron M ^a,b   Järve, Mari ^a   Lin, Alice A ^c   Myres, Natalie M ^d   Passarelli, Ben ^e   Poznik, G David ^c   Tzur, Shay ^b   Sahakyan, Hovhannes ^a,f   Pathak, Ajai Kumar ^a   Rosset, Saharon ^g   Metspalu, Mait ^a   Grugni, Viola ^h   Semino, Ornella ^h   Metspalu, Ene ^a   Bustamante, Carlos D ^c   Skorecki, Karl ^b,i   Villems, Richard ^a,j   Kivisild, Toomas ^k   Underhill, Peter A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Molecular Medicine Laboratory   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Ancestry   (United States)

^e Stanford University   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

^g TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

ⁱ TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^j ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRISTIANITY; CHROMOSOME; DIASPORA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

EUROPE;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EUROPE, EASTERN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84890639104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3928     Document Type: Article

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