Y-chromosomal analysis of Greek Cypriots reveals a primarily common pre-Ottoman paternal ancestry with Turkish Cypriots

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Heraclides, Alexandros ^a,b   Bashiardes, Evy ^a   Fernández Domínguez, Eva ^c   Bertoncini, Stefania ^d   Chimonas, Marios ^a   Christofi, Vasilis ^a   King, Jonathan ^e   Budowle, Bruce ^e,f   Manoli, Panayiotis ^a   Cariolou, Marios A ^a  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Cyprus)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYPRIOT; EUROPE; GENE POOL; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREEK (CITIZEN); HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICAN; TURK (PEOPLE); TURKISH CITIZEN; Y CHROMOSOME HAPLOGROUP; CYPRUS; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; MALE; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CYPRUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 85020932834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179474     Document Type: Article

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