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[Mitochondrial DNA sequence variations of Keriyan in the Taklamakan desert].
Yi chuan xue bao = Acta genetica Sinica - 1 May 2003
Duan Ran-Hui, Cui Yin-Qiu, Zhou Hui, Zhu Hong
Abstract excerpt
The Keriyans live in the center of the Taklamakan desert of Xinjiang Province and they have never married with outsiders. Nobody knows clearly how they immigrated here and who was their origin. The mtDNA hypervariable segment I sequences were sequenced in 75 Keriyans. Seventy-one unique HVS I types were identified, varying at 68 nucleotide positions. Nucleotide diversity and the mean pairwise differences of...
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