Origins of marronage: Mitochondrial lineages of Jamaica's Accompong Town Maroons

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 432-437

  Madrilejo, Nicole ^a   Lombard, Holden ^a   Torres, Jada Benn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BLACK PERSON; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84927737973     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22656     Document Type: Article

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