No evidence from genome-wide data of a khazar origin for the ashkenazi jews

Human Biology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 859-900

  Behar, Doron M ^a,b   Metspalu, Mait ^b,c,d   Baran, Yael ^e   Kopelman, Naama M ^e   Yunusbayev, Bayazit ^b,f   Gladstein, Ariella ^g   Tzur, Shay ^a   Sahakyan, Hovhannes ^b,h   Bahmanimehr, Ardeshir ^h   Yepiskoposyan, Levon ^h   Tambets, Kristiina ^b   Khusnutdinova, Elza K ^b,f,i   Kushniarevich, Alena ^b   Balanovsky, Oleg ^j,k   Balanovsky, Elena ^j,k   Kovacevic, Lejla ^l,m   Marjanovic, Damir ^l,n   Mihailov, Evelin ^b   Kouvatsi, Anastasia ^o   Triantaphyllidis, Costas ^o   King, Roy J ^p   Semino, Ornella ^q   Torroni, Antonio ^q   Hammer, Michael F ^g   Metspalu, Ene ^c   Skorecki, Karl ^a,r   Rosset, Saharon ^e   Halperin, Eran ^e,s   Villems, Richard ^b,c,t   Rosenberg, Noah A ^u   more..

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Armenia)

ⁱ Birsk Branch of Federal State Budgetary Educational Establishment of Higher Education Bashkir State University   (Russian Federation)

^j VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^k RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^l Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

ⁿ GENOS GLYCOSCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Croatia)

^o ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^p STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^r TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^s INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^t ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^u STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Ancestry; Jewish genetics; Population structure; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC NAMES; HISTORY; HUMAN; JEW; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANCIENT LANDS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84995360077     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.085.0604     Document Type: Article

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