Migration route out of Africa unresolved by 225 Egyptian and Ethiopian whole genome sequences

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue JUN, 2016, Pages

  Shriner, Daniel ^a   Keita, Shomarka O Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Biogeography; Genetic anthropology; Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA); Out of Africa; Whole genome sequence; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICAN; AUTOSOME; EGYPTIAN; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION SIZE;

EID: 84977528045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00098     Document Type: Note

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