Standing at the gateway to Europe - The genetic structure of Western Balkan populations based on autosomal and haploid markers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Kovacevic, Lejla ^a,b,c   Tambets, Kristiina ^a   Ilumäe, Anne Mai ^a   Kushniarevich, Alena ^a   Yunusbayev, Bayazit ^a,c   Solnik, Anu ^a   Bego, Tamer ^d   Primorac, Dragan ^e   Skaro, Vedrana ^f   Leskovac, Andreja ^g   Jakovski, Zlatko ^h   Drobnic, Katja ⁱ   Tolk, Helle Viivi ^a   Kovacevic, Sandra ^j   Rudan, Pavao ^k   Metspalu, Ene ^a   Marjanovic, Damir ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology ^*  (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^f GENOS GLYCOSCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Croatia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^h SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

ⁱ MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR   (Slovenia)

^j Forensic Center Police Directorate   (Montenegro)

^k CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; GENETIC MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; BALKAN PENINSULA; BOSNIAK (PEOPLE); BOSNIAN CROAT (PEOPLE); BOSNIAN SERB (PEOPLE); CELL LINEAGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROAT (PEOPLE); CROATIAN (CITIZEN); ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; KOSOVAR; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); MACEDONIAN (PEOPLE); MALE; MONTENEGRIN (PEOPLE); NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SERB (PEOPLE); SERBIAN (CITIZEN); SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; Y CHROMOSOME;

BALKAN PENINSULA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84925865749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105090     Document Type: Article

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