Tracing the Route of Modern Humans out of Africa by Using 225 Human Genome Sequences from Ethiopians and Egyptians

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 986-991

  Pagani, Luca ^a,b,c   Schiffels, Stephan ^a   Gurdasani, Deepti ^a   Danecek, Petr ^a   Scally, Aylwyn ^b   Chen, Yuan ^a   Xue, Yali ^a   Haber, Marc ^a,d   Ekong, Rosemary ^e   Oljira, Tamiru ^f   Mekonnen, Ephrem ^f   Luiselli, Donata ^c   Bradman, Neil ^g   Bekele, Endashaw ^f   Zalloua, Pierre ^d,h   Durbin, Richard ^a   Kivisild, Toomas ^b   Tyler Smith, Chris ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Addis Ababa and Center of Human Genetic Diversity   (Ethiopia)

^g Henry Stewart Conference Studies   (United Kingdom)

^h HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN; ARTICLE; EGYPTIAN; ETHIOPIAN; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EGYPT; ETHIOPIA; GENETICS; GENOME, HUMAN; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTORY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; METHODS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84991608013     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.04.019     Document Type: Article

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