Mitochondrial DNA from El Mirador cave (Atapuerca, Spain) reveals the heterogeneity of Chalcolithic populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Gómez Sánchez, Daniel ^a   Olalde, Iñigo ^a   Pierini, Federica ^a   Matas Lalueza, Laura ^a   Gigli, Elena ^b   Lari, Martina ^b   Civit, Sergi ^c   Lozano, Marina ^d   Vergès, Josep Maria ^d,e   Caramelli, David ^b   Ramírez, Oscar ^a   Lalueza Fox, Carles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CAVE; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPAIN;

CAVES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPAIN;

EID: 84905833532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105105     Document Type: Article

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