Prehistoric migrations through the Mediterranean basin shaped Corsican Y-chromosome diversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2018, Pages

  Cristofaro, Julie Di ^a,b   Mazières, Stéphane ^b   Tous, Audrey ^a   Gaetano, Cornelia Di ^c   Lin, Alice A ^d   Nebbia, Paul ^e   Piazza, Alberto ^c   King, Roy J ^d   Underhill, Peter ^d   Chiaroni, Jacques ^a,b  

^a ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Sartène Museum   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORSICA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOGROUP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESOLITHIC; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEOLITHIC; SEASHORE; Y CHROMOSOME; CAUCASIAN; CLASSIFICATION; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 85050943103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200641     Document Type: Article

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