Early modern human dispersal from Africa: Genomic evidence for multiple waves of migration

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Tassi, Francesca ^a   Ghirotto, Silvia ^a   Mezzavilla, Massimo ^b   Vilaça, Sibelle Torres ^a,c   De Santi, Lisa ^a   Barbujani, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Admixture; Evolutionary divergence; Human demographic history; Linkage disequilibrium; Migration; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AFRICA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALOID; BIODIVERSITY; EUROPEAN; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; MELANESIA; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84946408776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13323-015-0030-2     Document Type: Article

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