Mosaic maternal ancestry in the Great Lakes region of East Africa

Human Genetics

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1013-1027

  Gomes, Verónica ^a,b   Pala, Maria ^c   Salas, Antonio ^d   Álvarez Iglesias, Vanesa ^d   Amorim, António ^a,b   Gómez Carballa, Alberto ^d   Carracedo, Ángel ^d   Clarke, Douglas J ^c   Hill, Catherine ^c   Mormina, Maru ^e,f   Shaw, Marie Anne ^e,g   Dunne, David W ^h   Pereira, Rui ^a,b   Pereira, Vânia ⁱ   Prata, Maria João ^a,b   Sánchez Diz, Paula ^d   Rito, Teresa ^j,k   Soares, Pedro ^k   Gusmão, Leonor ^a,b,l   Richards, Martin B ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^l STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; AFRO-ASIATIC PEOPLE; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; BANTU PEOPLE; ETHIOPIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FLOW; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLACIAL PERIOD; HAPLOGROUP; HAPLOTYPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; KENYAN; LANGUAGE; LIFESTYLE; MATERNAL ANCESTRY; MOSAICISM; NILOTE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDAN; TANZANIAN; UGANDA; UGANDAN; BLACK PERSON; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; UGANDA;

EID: 84938953750     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-015-1583-0     Document Type: Article

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