The peopling of the African continent and the diaspora into the new world

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 120-132

  Campbell, Michael C ^a,c   Hirbo, Jibril B ^a,b   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^c   Tishkoff, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK PERSON; CANCER MORTALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; MIGRATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AFRICA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84908459076     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2014.09.003     Document Type: Review

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