Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2632-2637

  Pickrell, Joseph K ^a,g   Patterson, Nick ^b   Loh, Po Ru ^c   Lipson, Mark ^c   Berger, Bonnie ^b,c   Stoneking, Mark ^d   Pakendorf, Brigitte ^e   Reich, David ^a,b,f  

^a Department of Genetics ^*  (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g NEW YORK GENOME CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Migration; Population genetics; Prehistory

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ETHIOPIA; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KENYA; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANZANIA;

MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PREHISTORY;

AFRICA, EASTERN; AFRICA, SOUTHERN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84894349598     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313787111     Document Type: Article

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