mtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major southern Asian chapter in human prehistory

The relative timing and size of regional human population growth following our expansion from Africa remains unknown. Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity carries a legacy of our population history. Given a set of sequences, we can use coalescent theory to estimate past population size through...

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Main Authors: Atkinson, Q, Gray, R, Drummond, A
Outros autores: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2008
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