Mitochondrial genome diversity at the Bering Strait area highlights prehistoric human migrations from Siberia to northern North America

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1399-1404

  Dryomov, Stanislav V ^a,b   Nazhmidenova, Azhar M ^a   Shalaurova, Sophia A ^a,c   Morozov, Igor V ^c,d   Tabarev, Andrei V ^b   Starikovskaya, Elena B ^a,b   Sukernik, Rem I ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALEUT (PEOPLE); AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAPLOTYPE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; INUIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TLINGIT (PEOPLE); UPPER PLEISTOCENE; ALASKA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GREENLAND; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALASKA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GREENLAND; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; INUITS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SIBERIA;

EID: 84944172271     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.286     Document Type: Article

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