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Mitochondrial DNA genetic diversity among four ethnic groups in Sierra Leone.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Sept 2005
Jackson Bruce A, Wilson Jamie Lee, Kirbah Salwa, Sidney Sheree S, Rosenberger Joshua, Bassie Larry, Alie Joe A D, McLean David C, Garvey W Timothy, Ely Bert
Abstract excerpt
Although there are numerous ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, the Mende and Temne together account for approximately 60% of the total population. To see if genetic differences could be observed among ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, the nucleotide sequence of the hypervariable 1 (HV1) region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was determined from samples of the two major ethnic groups, the Mende (n=59) and Temne (n=121), and...
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