Genetic diversity in the lesser antilles and its implications for the settlement of the caribbean Basin

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Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Torres, Jada Benn ^a   Vilar, Miguel G ^b,c   Torres, Gabriel A ^a   Gaieski, Jill B ^b   Hernandez, Ricardo Bharath ^d   Browne, Zoila E ^e   Stevenson, Marlon ^e   Walters, Wendell ^e,f   Schurr, Theodore G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^d Santa Rosa First Peoples Community   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^e Garifuna Heritage Foundation Inc   (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

^f NONE   (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICAN; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUATEMALA; HAPLOTYPE; HONDURAS; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANAMA; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PUERTO RICO; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH ASIAN; VENEZUELA; Y CHROMOSOME; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLACK PERSON; CARIBBEAN; CAUCASIAN; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARIBBEAN REGION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 84949058185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139192     Document Type: Article

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