Demographic histories, isolation and social factors as determinants of the genetic structure of alpine linguistic groups

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Coia, Valentina ^a   Capocasa, Marco ^b,c   Anagnostou, Paolo ^c,d   Pascali, Vincenzo ^e   Scarnicci, Francesca ^e   Boschi, Ilaria ^e   Battaggia, Cinzia ^d   Crivellaro, Federica ^f   Ferri, Gianmarco ^g   Alù, Milena ^g   Brisighelli, Francesca ^e   Busby, George B J ^h   Capelli, Cristian ^h   Maixner, Frank ^a   Cipollini, Giovanna ^a   Viazzo, Pier Paolo ⁱ   Zink, Albert ^a   Bisol, Giovanni Destro ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Istituto Italiano di Antropologia   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L Pigorini   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALPINE; ARTICLE; BASQUES; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMAN; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ITALIAN; LADIN; LANGUAGE; MITOCHONDRION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; SARDINIAN; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TYROLEAN; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84891391470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081704     Document Type: Article

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