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Mitochondrial DNA HVRI variation in Balearic populations.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Sept 2005
Picornell A, Gómez-Barbeito L, Tomàs C, Castro J A, Ramon M M
Abstract excerpt
The Balearic archipelago (Majorca, Minorca, and Ibiza islands and the Chuetas, a small and inbred community of descendants of Sephardic Jews) and Valencia were studied by means of the sequencing of a 404-bp segment of hypervariable region I (HVRI) mtDNA in 231 individuals. In total, 127 different haplotypes defined by 92 variable positions were identified. The incidence of unique haplotypes was very low,...
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