Reply to Mendez et al: The 'extremely ancient' chromosome that still isn't

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 567-568

  Elhaik, Eran ^a   Tatarinova, Tatiana V ^b   Klyosov, Anatole A ^c   Graur, Dan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Academy of DNA Genealogy   (United States)

^d University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; GENETIC DISTANCE; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LETTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME; AFRICAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84928054347     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.227     Document Type: Letter

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