The ancient Yakuts: A population genetic enigma

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1660, 2015, Pages

  Keyser, Christine ^a,b   Hollard, Clémence ^a,b   Gonzalez, Angela ^a   Fausser, Jean Luc ^a   Rivals, Eric ^c,d   Alexeev, Anatoly Nikolayevich ^e   Riberon, Alexandre ^b   Crubézy, Eric ^b   Ludes, Bertrand ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c LIRMM   (France)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e NORTH EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Kinship; Short tandem repeats; Yakuts

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; EXCAVATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KINSHIP; POPULATION GENETICS; SKELETAL REMAINS;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIA; VERKHOYANSK; VILYUY BASIN;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BONE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL; Y CHROMOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; BONE AND BONES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FOSSILS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIBERIA;

EID: 84916205750     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0385     Document Type: Article

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