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The Basques according to polymorphic Alu insertions.
Human genetics - 1 Aug 2001
de Pancorbo M M, López-Martínez M, Martínez-Bouzas C, Castro A, Fernández-Fernández I, de Mayolo G A, de Mayolo A A, de Mayolo P A, Rowold D J, Herrera R J
Abstract excerpt
Polymorphic Alu insertions provide a set of DNA markers of interest in human population genetics. Approximately 1000-2000 of these insertions have not reached fixation within the human genome. Each one of these polymorphic loci most probably resulted from a unique insertional event, and therefore all individuals possessing the insertion are related by descent not just state. In addition, the direction of...
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