Different waves and directions of Neolithic migrations in the Armenian Highland

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hovhannisyan, Anahit ^a   Khachatryan, Zaruhi ^a   Haber, Marc ^b   Hrechdakian, Peter ^c   Karafet, Tatiana ^d   Zalloua, Pierre ^e,f   Yepiskoposyan, Levon ^a  

^a H Buniatian Institute of Biochemistry National Academy of Sciences of Armenia   (Armenia)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c Family Tree DNA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Armenian Highland; Neolithic migration; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARMENIA; ARMENIAN (PEOPLE); ARTICLE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALE; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME HAPLOGROUP;

EID: 84988890359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13323-014-0015-6     Document Type: Article

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