Indigenous Arabs are descendants of the earliest split from ancient Eurasian populations

Genome Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 151-162

  Rodriguez Flores, Juan L ^a   Fakhro, Khalid ^b,c   Agosto Perez, Francisco ^a,d   Ramstetter, Monica D ^d   Arbiza, Leonardo ^d   Vincent, Thomas L ^a   Robay, Amal ^c   Malek, Joel A ^c   Suhre, Karsten ^c   Chouchane, Lotfi ^c   Badii, Ramin ^e   Al Marri, Ajayeb Al Nabet ^e   Khalil, Charbel Abi ^c   Zirie, Mahmoud ^e   Jayyousi, Amin ^e   Salit, Jacqueline ^a   Keinan, Alon ^d   Clark, Andrew G ^d   Crystal, Ronald G ^a   Mezey, Jason G ^a,d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SIDRA MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Qatar)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^d Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^e HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN; ALLELE; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASIAN; EURASIAN; EUROPEAN; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME HAPLOGROUP; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; MARKOV CHAIN; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QATAR;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANIMALS; ARABS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEANDERTHALS; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QATAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84956909090     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.191478.115     Document Type: Article

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