Group membership, geography and shared ancestry: Genetic variation in the Basotho of Lesotho

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 156-161

  Montinaro, Francesco ^a   Davies, Joseph ^a   Capelli, Cristian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

gene culture coevolution; group membership; mitochondrial DNA; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROUP MEMBERSHIP; GROUP STRUCTURE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LESOTHO; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; Y CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LESOTHO; MALE;

EID: 84955135441     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22933     Document Type: Article

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