A cautionary tale on ancient migration detection: mitochondrial DNA variation in Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands.

doi:10.1353/hub.2002.0029

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A cautionary tale on ancient migration detection: mitochondrial DNA variation in Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands.

Human biology - 1 Jun 2002

Friedlaender J S, Gentz Fred, Green K, Merriwether D A

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Over the past decade, the origin of the first Malayo-Polynesian settlers of the island Pacific has become a contentious issue in molecular anthropology as well as in archaeology and historical linguistics. Whether the descendants of the ancestral Malayo-Polynesian speakers moved rapidly through Indonesia and Island Melanesia in a few hundred years, or whether they were the product of considerable intermingling...

Topics

DNA, Mitochondrial
Emigration and Immigration
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Haplotypes
Humans
Melanesia
Polymerase Chain Reaction

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PMID: 12180766
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2002.0029

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