Genomic insights on the ethno-history of the Maya and the 'Ladinos' from Guatemala

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Söchtig, Jens ^a   Álvarez Iglesias, Vanesa ^a   Mosquera Miguel, Ana ^a   Gelabert Besada, Miguel ^a   Gómez Carballa, Alberto ^a   Salas, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

AIMs; Autosomal SNPs; Guatemala; Ladino; Maya; Mesoamerica; mtDNA; Phylogeography; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; GENE FLOW; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GUATEMALA; HAPLOGROUP; HISTORY; HUMAN; LADINOS; MALE; MAYA (PEOPLE); MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; Y CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN GENOME; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GUATEMALA; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84928789350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1339-1     Document Type: Article

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