The history of the North African mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 gene flow into the African, Eurasian and American continents

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Secher, Bernard ^a   Fregel, Rosa ^b,c   Larruga, José M ^b   Cabrera, Vicente M ^b   Endicott, Phillip ^d   Pestano, José J ^c,e   González, Ana M ^b  

^a Administrator of U6 MtDNA Project at Family Tree DNA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^d MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^e Institute of Legal Medicine of Las Palmas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Haplogroup U6; Human evolution; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeny; Phylogeography; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; COLONIZATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PALEOLITHIC; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AFRICA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS;

AFRICA; ASIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84903303760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-109     Document Type: Article

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