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SUBMITTER: Zalloua PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2668035 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zalloua Pierre A PA Platt Daniel E DE El Sibai Mirvat M Khalife Jade J Makhoul Nadine N Haber Marc M Xue Yali Y Izaabel Hassan H Bosch Elena E Adams Susan M SM Arroyo Eduardo E López-Parra Ana María AM Aler Mercedes M Picornell Antònia A Ramon Misericordia M Jobling Mark A MA Comas David D Bertranpetit Jaume J Wells R Spencer RS Tyler-Smith Chris C
American journal of human genetics 20081030 5
The Phoenicians were the dominant traders in the Mediterranean Sea two thousand to three thousand years ago and expanded from their homeland in the Levant to establish colonies and trading posts throughout the Mediterranean, but then they disappeared from history. We wished to identify their male genetic traces in modern populations. Therefore, we chose Phoenician-influenced sites on the basis of well-documented historical records and collected new Y-chromosomal data from 1330 men from six such ...[more]