Exploring the Y chromosomal ancestry of modern panamanians

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Grugni, Viola ^a   Battaglia, Vincenza ^a   Perego, Ugo Alessandro ^b,c   Raveane, Alessandro ^a   Lancioni, Hovirag ^c   Olivieri, Anna ^a   Ferretti, Luca ^a   Woodward, Scott R ^b   Pascale, Juan Miguel ^d   Cooke, Richard ^e   Myres, Natalie ^b,f   Motta, Jorge ^d   Torroni, Antonio ^a   Achilli, Alessandro ^a,c   Semino, Ornella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud   (Panama)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^f Ancestry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE POOL; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP; PANAMANIAN; Y CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME HAPLOGROUP; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENETICS; PANAMA;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; MALE; PANAMA;

EID: 84955448249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144223     Document Type: Article

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