Ancient X chromosomes reveal contrasting sex bias in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian migrations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 2657-2662

  Goldberg, Amy ^a   Günther, Torsten ^b   Rosenberg, Noah A ^a   Jakobsson, Mattias ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Admixture; Migration; Neolithic; Sex bias; X chromosome

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUTOSOME; BRONZE AGE; CENTRAL EUROPEAN; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; MULTIRACIAL PERSON; NEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEPPE; X CHROMOSOME; BODY REMAINS; EUROPE; GENETICS; SEXISM;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BODY REMAINS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; SEXISM;

EID: 85014617315     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1616392114     Document Type: Article

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