Mapping human dispersals into the Horn of Africa from Arabian Ice Age refugia using mitogenomes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Gandini, Francesca ^a,b   Achilli, Alessandro ^a,c   Pala, Maria ^b   Bodner, Martin ^d   Brandini, Stefania ^a   Huber, Gabriela ^d   Egyed, Balazs ^e   Ferretti, Luca ^a   Gómez Carballa, Alberto ^f   Salas, Antonio ^f   Scozzari, Rosaria ^g   Cruciani, Fulvio ^g   Coppa, Alfredo ^h   Parson, Walther ^d,i   Semino, Ornella ^a   Soares, Pedro ^j   Torroni, Antonio ^a   Richards, Martin B ^b   Olivieri, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^h SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

ⁱ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOGROUP; HOLOCENE; HORN; HUMAN; ICE AGE; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; PAKISTAN; PLEISTOCENE; REFUGIUM; THINKING; TIGHT JUNCTION; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HISTORY; ICE COVER; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRENDS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA, EASTERN; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FLOW; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; ICE COVER; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REFUGIUM; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84966320652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25472     Document Type: Article

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