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Possible migration routes into South America deduced from mitochondrial DNA studies in Colombian Amerindian populations.
Human biology - 1 Apr 2002
Keyeux Genoveva, Rodas Clemencia, Gelvez Nancy, Carter Dee
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA haplotype studies have been useful in unraveling the origins of Native Americans. Such studies are based on restriction site and intergenic deletion/insertion polymorphisms, which define four main haplotype groups common to Asian and American populations. Several studies have characterized these lineages in North, Central, and South American Amerindian, as well as Na Dene and Aleutian...
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