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Mitochondrial sequence variation in the Guahibo Amerindian population from Venezuela.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Jul 2005
Vona Giuseppe, Falchi Alessandra, Moral Pedro, Calò Carla M, Varesi Laurent
Abstract excerpt
New data were obtained on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from Guahibo from Venezuela, a group so far not studied using molecular data. A population sample (n = 59) was analyzed for mtDNA variation in two control-region hypervariable segments (HV1 and HV2) by sequencing. The presence or absence of a 9-bp polymorphism in the COII/tRNA(Lys) region was studied by direct amplification and electrophoretic identification....
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