Los genes reflejan la geografía dentro de Europa

John Novembre1, Toby Johnson, Katarzyna Bryc

  • 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Interdepartmental Program in Bioinformatics, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. jnovembre@ucla.edu

Nature
|September 2, 2008
PubMed
Resumen

El análisis genético de 3.000 europeos revela una fuerte correlación entre el ADN y la geografía. Este mapa genético de Europa ayuda a comprender la estructura de la población humana y la precisión de las pruebas de ascendencia.

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