Genetic variation of recent Alu insertions in human populations

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 22-29

  Batzer, Mark A ^a   Arcot, Santosh S ^a   Phinney, Joshua W ^a   Alegria Hartman, Michelle ^a   Kass, David H ^b   Milligan, Stephen M ^c   Kimpton, Colin ^d   Gill, Peter ^d   Hochmeister, Manfred ^e   Ioannou, Panayiotis A ^f   Herrera, Rene J ^g   Boudreau, Donald A ^b   Scheer, W Douglas ^b   Keats, Bronya J B ^b   Deininger, Prescott L ^b,h   Stoneking, Mark ⁱ  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Michigan State Police   (United States)

^d FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^g FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African origin; Human evolution; Identical by descent; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 9044236155     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00163207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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