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Microsatellites provide evidence for Y chromosome diversity among the founders of the New World.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 25 May 1999
Ruiz-Linares A, Ortíz-Barrientos D, Figueroa M, Mesa N, Múnera J G, Bedoya G, Vélez I D, García L F, Pérez-Lezaun A, Bertranpetit J, Feldman M W, Goldstein D B
Abstract excerpt
Recently, Y chromosome markers have begun to be used to study Native American origins. Available data have been interpreted as indicating that the colonizers of the New World carried a single founder haplotype. However, these early studies have been based on a few, mostly complex polymorphisms of insufficient resolution to determine whether observed diversity stems from admixture or diversity among the...
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