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Mitochondrial portrait of the Cabo Verde archipelago: the Senegambian outpost of Atlantic slave trade.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Jan 2002
Brehm A, Pereira L, Bandelt H-J, Prata M J, Amorim A
Abstract excerpt
In order to study the matrilineal genetic composition in Cabo Verde (Republic of Cape Verde), an archipelago that used to serve as a Portuguese entrepôt of the Atlantic slave trade, we have analysed a total of 292 mtDNAs sampled from the seven inhabited islands for the hypervariable segment I (HVS-I) and some characteristic RFLPs of the coding regions. The different settlement history of the northwestern group of...
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