Human ancestry correlates with language and reveals that race is not an objective genomic classifier

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Baker, Jennifer L ^a   Rotimi, Charles N ^a   Shriner, Daniel ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIER; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ETHNICITY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE; ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE POOL; HUMAN GENOME; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; GENE POOL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85019231271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01837-7     Document Type: Article

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