The genetic impact of the lake chad basin population in north africa as documented by mitochondrial diversity and internal variation of the L3e5 haplogroup

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 513-523

  Podgorná, Eliŝka ^a   Soares, Pedro ^b   Pereira, Lúisa ^b,c   Ĉerný, Viktor ^d,e  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c University of Porto   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e Institute for Advanced Study   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Holocene; Migration; MtDNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; L3E5 CLADE; LAKE; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIGER; NORTH AFRICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AFRICA; ETHNIC GROUP; FOUNDER EFFECT; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84892979417     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ahg.12040     Document Type: Article

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