Erratum: Pitfalls of the geographic population structure (GPS) approach applied to human genetic history: A case study of Ashkenazi jews (Genome Biology and Evolution (2016) 8 (2259-2265) DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw162);Pitfalls of the geographic population structure (GPS) approach applied to human genetic history: A case study of ashkenazi jews

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2259-2265

  Flegontov, Pavel ^a,b,c   Kassian, Alexei ^d,e   Thomas, Mark G ^f   Fedchenko, Valentina ^g   Changmai, Piya ^a   Starostin, George ^e,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Russian Federation)

^e RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ACADEMY OF NATIONAL ECONOMY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^h RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ashkenazi Jews; Geographic population structure; Population genetics; Relexification; Yiddish

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; JEW; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PEDIGREE; POPULATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; JEWS; PEDIGREE; POPULATION;

EID: 85018364558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx016     Document Type: Erratum

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