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Maternal and paternal lineages of the Samaritan isolate: mutation rates and time to most recent common male ancestor.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Mar 2003
Bonné-Tamir B, Korostishevsky M, Redd A J, Pel-Or Y, Kaplan M E, Hammer M F
Abstract excerpt
The Samaritan community is a small, isolated, and highly endogamous group numbering some 650 members who have maintained extensive genealogical records for the past 13-15 generations. We performed mutation detection experiments on mitochondrial DNAs and Y chromosomes from confirmed maternal and paternal lineages to estimate mutation rates in these two haploid compartments of the genome. One hundred and twenty...
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