Article
mtDNA history of the Cayapa Amerinds of Ecuador: detection of additional founding lineages for the Native American populations.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 1999
Rickards O, Martínez-Labarga C, Lum J K, De Stefano G F, Cann R L
Abstract excerpt
mtDNA variation in the Cayapa, an Ecuadorian Amerindian tribe belonging to the Chibcha-Paezan linguistic branch, was analyzed by use of hypervariable control regions I and II along with two linked regions undergoing insertion/deletion mutations. Three major maternal lineage clusters fit into the A, B, and C founding groups first described by Schurr and colleagues in 1990, whereas a fourth lineage, apparently...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Ecuador
- Founder Effect
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Indians, South American
- Matched-Pair Analysis
- Models, Genetic