Early Back-to-Africa Migration into the Horn of Africa

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Hodgson, Jason A ^a   Mulligan, Connie J ^b   Al Meeri, Ali ^c   Raaum, Ryan L ^d,e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Anthropology and the Genetics Institute University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^c SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology NYCEP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORN OF AFRICA; HUMAN; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YEMENI; ALLELE; ARCHEOLOGY; BLACK PERSON; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; YEMEN;

LACTASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA, EASTERN; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LACTASE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; YEMEN;

EID: 84903487421     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004393     Document Type: Article

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