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Evidence for mtDNA admixture between the Finns and the Saami.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2001
Meinilä M, Finnilä S, Majamaa K
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OBJECTIVES: The Finns, and to a more extreme extent the Saami, are genetic outliers in Europe. Despite the close geographical contact between these populations, no major contribution of Saami mtDNA haplotypes to the Finnish population has been detected. METHODS: To examine the extent of maternal gene flow from the Saami into Finnish populations, we determined the mtDNA variation in 403 persons living in four...
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