Comparing maternal genetic variation across two millennia reveals the demographic history of an ancient human population in southwest Turkey

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Ottoni, Claudio ^a,b,c   Rasteiro, Rita ^d   Willet, Rinse ^e   Claeys, Johan ^a   Talloen, Peter ^a   Van de Vijver, Katrien ^a   Chikhi, Lounès ^f,g   Poblome, Jeroen ^a   Decorte, Ronny ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^g INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Approximate Bayesian computation; Byzantine; Roman; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959422332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150250     Document Type: Article

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