The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Gallego Llorente, M ^a   Connell, S ^b   Jones, E R ^a   Merrett, D C ^c   Jeon, Y ^d   Eriksson, A ^a,e   Siska, V ^a   Gamba, C ^b,f   Meiklejohn, C ^g   Beyer, R ^a   Jeon, S ^d   Cho, Y S ^d   Hofreiter, M ^h   Bhak, J ^d   Manica, A ^a   Pinhasi, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^e KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; DIFFUSION; EUROPE; EUROPEAN; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAST; NEOLITHIC; ORGANIZATION; AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN GENOME; IRAN; MIGRATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANCIENT DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGY; DNA, ANCIENT; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FARMERS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; IRAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84981225514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31326     Document Type: Article

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