Genetic evidence for an origin of the Armenians from Bronze Age mixing of multiple populations

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 931-936

  Haber, Marc ^a   Mezzavilla, Massimo ^a,b   Xue, Yali ^a   Comas, David ^c   Gasparini, Paolo ^b   Zalloua, Pierre ^d   Tyler Smith, Chris ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; ARMENIAN (PEOPLE); ARTICLE; BRONZE AGE; EUROPEAN; GENE CLUSTER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ARMENIA; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PEDIGREE; POPULATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARMENIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION;

EID: 84944929433     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2015.206     Document Type: Article

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