The Paleo-Indian entry into South America according to mitogenomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 299-311

  Brandini, Stefania ^a   Bergamaschi, Paola ^a,b   Fernando Cerna, Marco ^c   Gandini, Francesca ^a,d   Bastaroli, Francesca ^a   Bertolini, Emilie ^a   Cereda, Cristina ^e   Ferretti, Luca ^a   Gómez Carballa, Alberto ^f,g   Battaglia, Vincenza ^a   Salas, Antonio ^f,g   Semino, Ornella ^a   Achilli, Alessandro ^a   Olivieri, Anna ^a   Torroni, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^c Andean University of Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^g Santiago University Clinical Hospital   (Spain)

Author keywords

: Native Americans; Ecuador; first peopling of South America; haplogroups; mitochondrial DNA; mitochondrial genomes; Peru

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; ECUADOR; GENOME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOGROUP; HUMAN; INDIAN; MESTIZO; MITOGENOME; PALEO INDIAN; PERU; PERUVIAN; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICAN; GENETICS; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 85041133881     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx267     Document Type: Article

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