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Genetic diversity of two African and sixteen South American populations determined on the basis of six hypervariable loci.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Aug 1999
Da Silva W A, Bortolini M C, Meyer D, Salzano F M, Elion J, Krishnamoorthy R, Schneider M P, De Guerra D C, Layrisse Z, Castellano H M, Weimer T D, Zago M A
Abstract excerpt
A total of 582 individuals (1,164 chromosomes) from two African, eight African-derived South American, five South American Amerindian, and three Brazilian urban populations were studied at four variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) and two short tandem repeat (STR) hypervariable loci. These two sets of loci did not show distinct allele profiles, which might be expected if different processes promoted their...
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