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Confirmation of the potential usefulness of two human beta globin pseudogene markers to estimate gene flows to and from sub-Saharan Africans.
Human biology - 1 Apr 2002
Ciminelli Bianca Maria, Pompei Fiorenza, Relucenti Michela, Lum J Koji, Simporé Jacques, Spedini Gabriella, Martínez-Labarga Cristina, Pardo Miguel G
Abstract excerpt
Two polymorphic sites, -107 and -100 with respect to the "cap" site of the human beta globin pseudogene, recently discovered in our laboratory, turned out to have an ethnically complementary distribution. The first site is polymorphic in Europeans, North Africans, Indians (Hindu), and Oriental Asians, and monomorphic in sub-Saharan Africans. Conversely, the second site is polymorphic in sub-Saharan African...
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