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Mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals substantial Native American ancestry in Puerto Rico.
Human biology - 1 Aug 2001
Martínez-Cruzado J C, Toro-Labrador G, Ho-Fung V, Estévez-Montero M A, Lobaina-Manzanet A, Padovani-Claudio D A, Sánchez-Cruz H, Ortiz-Bermúdez P, Sánchez-Crespo A
Abstract excerpt
To estimate the maternal contribution of Native Americans to the human gene pool of Puerto Ricans--a population of mixed African, European, and Amerindian ancestry--the mtDNAs of two sample sets were screened for restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) defining the four major Native American haplogroups. The sample set collected from people who claimed to have a maternal ancestor with Native American...
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