The time and place of European admixture in Ashkenazi Jewish history

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Xue, James ^a,b   Lencz, Todd ^c,d,e   Darvasi, Ariel ^f   Pe’er, Itsik ^a,g   Carmi, Shai ^f  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d ZUCKER HILLSIDE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MIDDLE AGES; REST; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICS; CAUCASIAN; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; JEW; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JEWS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 85018269667     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006644     Document Type: Article

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