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Reconstructing population history using JC virus: Amerinds, Spanish, and Africans in the ancestry of modern Puerto Ricans.
Human biology - 1 Jun 2001
Fernandez-Cobo M, Jobes D V, Yanagihara R, Nerurkar V R, Yamamura Y, Ryschkewitsch C F, Stoner G L
Abstract excerpt
The roots of the Hispanic populations of the Caribbean Islands and Central and South America go back to three continents of the Old World. In Puerto Rico major genetic contributions have come from (1) Asians in the form of the aboriginal Taino population, an Arawak tribe, present when Columbus arrived on the Island, (2) Europeans, largely Spanish explorers, settlers, government administrators, and soldiers, and...
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