The Italian genome reflects the history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1056-1062

  Fiorito, Giovanni ^a,b   Di Gaetano, Cornelia ^a,b   Guarrera, Simonetta ^a,b   Rosa, Fabio ^b   Feldman, Marcus W ^c   Piazza, Alberto ^a,b   Matullo, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Human Genetics Foundation   (Italy)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; ITALY; MIDDLE EAST; NEOLITHIC; NORTH AFRICA; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; MIGRATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84946782154     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2015.233     Document Type: Article

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