Genetic heritage of the balto-slavic speaking populations: A synthesis of autosomal, mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal data

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Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Kushniarevich, Alena ^a,b   Utevska, Olga ^c,d   Chuhryaeva, Marina ^d,e   Agdzhoyan, Anastasia ^d,e   Dibirova, Khadizhat ^d,e   Uktveryte, Ingrida ^f   Möls, Märt ^g   Mulahasanovic, Lejla ^h,i   Pshenichnov, Andrey ^e   Frolova, Svetlana ^e   Shanko, Andrey ^e   Metspalu, Ene ^a,g   Reidla, Maere ^a,g   Tambets, Kristiina ^a   Tamm, Erika ^a,g   Koshel, Sergey ^j   Zaporozhchenko, Valery ^d,e   Atramentova, Lubov ^c   Kučinskas, Vaidutis ^f   Davydenko, Oleg ^b   Goncharova, Olga ⁿ   Evseeva, Irina ^e,m   Churnosov, Michail ^k   Pocheshchova, Elvira ^l   Yunusbayev, Bayazit ^a,o   Khusnutdinova, Elza ^o,p   Marjanović, Damir ^q,r   Rudan, Pavao ^r   Rootsi, Siiri ^a   Yankovsky, Nick ^d   Endicott, Phillip ^s   Kassian, Alexei ^t,u   Dybo, Anna ^t   Tyler Smith, Chris ^v   Balanovska, Elena ^e   Metspalu, Mait ^a   Kivisild, Toomas ^a,g,w   Villems, Richard ^a,g,x   Balanovsky, Oleg ^d,e   Jin, Li ^y   Li, Hui ^y   Li, Shilin ^y   Swamikrishnan, Pandikumar ^z   Javed, Asif ^z   Parida, Laxmi ^z   Royyuru, Ajay K ^z   Mitchell, R John ^aa   Zalloua, Pierre A ^ab   Adhikarla, Syama ^ac   Kumar, Arun ^ac   Prasad, Ganesh ^ac   Pitchappan, Ramasamy ^ac   Santhakumari, Arun Varatharajan ^ac   Wells, R Spencer ^ad   Vilar, Miguel G ^ad   Soodyall, Himla ^ae   Lacerda, Daniela R ^af   Santos, Fabrício R ^af   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^ag   Haber, Marc ^ag   Melé, Marta ^ag   Adler, Christina J ^ah   Cooper, Alan ^ah   Der Sarkissian, Clio S I ^ah   Haak, Wolfgang ^ah   Kaplan, Matthew E ^ai   Merchant, Nirav C ^ai   Renfrew, Colin ^w   Clarke, Andrew C ^aj   Matisoo Smith, Elizabeth A ^aj   Gaieski, Jill B ^ak   Owings, Amanda C ^ak   Schurr, Theodore G ^ak   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND CYTOLOGY   (Belarus)

^c V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^d VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^e RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^f VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^h CEGAT GMBH   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^j MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^k BELGOROD STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^l KUBAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^m NORTHERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

ⁿ INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS   (Belarus)

^o INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^p Birsk Branch of Federal State Budgetary Educational Establishment of Higher Education Bashkir State University   (Russian Federation)

^q INTERNATIONAL BURCH UNIVERSITY   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^r INSTITUTE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Croatia)

^s MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^t INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Russian Federation)

^u RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ACADEMY OF NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION   (Russian Federation)

^v WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^w UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^x ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^y FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^z IBM   (United States)

^aa LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^ab LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^ac MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

^ad NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^ae NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^af FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^ag UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; BALTO-SLAVIC PEOPLE; EUROPE; GENE LOCUS; GENE POOL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME; CAUCASIAN; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84947461238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135820     Document Type: Article

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