A Novel Y-chromosome Variant Puts an Upper Limit on the Timing of First Entry into the Americas

Overview

Journal Am J Hum Genet

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Genetics

Date 2003 Aug 21

PMID 12929085

Citations 19

Authors

Mark Seielstad

Nadira Yuldasheva

Nadia Singh

Peter Underhill

Peter Oefner

Peidong Shen

R Spencer Wells

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