Minisatellite diversity supports a recent African origin for modern humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 154-160

  Armour, John A L ^a,f   Anttinen, Tiiu ^b   May, Celia A ^a   Vega, Emilce E ^a,e   Sajantila, Antti ^b   Kidd, Judith R ^c   Kidd, Kenneth K ^c   Bertranpetit, Jaume ^d   Pääbo, Svante ^b   Jeffreys, Alec J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, SATELLITE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 9044243028     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0696-154     Document Type: Article

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