Mountain pygmies of western new guinea: A morphological and molecular approach

Human Biology

Volumn 85, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 285-308

  Tommaseo Ponzetta, M ^a   Mona, S ^b,c   Calabrese, F ^a   Konrad, G ^d   Vacca, E ^a   Attimonelli, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^d Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Hypervariable segment 1; Morphology; Mtdna; New guinea; Nonrecombining y chromosome; Pygmies

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ETHNOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW GUINEA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP;

EID: 85026470266     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.085.0314     Document Type: Article

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