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Expanding Southwest Pacific mitochondrial haplogroups P and Q.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jun 2005
Friedlaender Jonathan, Schurr Theodore, Gentz Fred, Koki George, Friedlaender Françoise, Horvat Gisele, Babb Paul, Cerchio Sal, Kaestle Frederika, Schanfield Moses, Deka Ranjan, Yanagihara Ric, Merriwether D Andrew
Abstract excerpt
Modern humans have occupied New Guinea and the nearby Bismarck and Solomon archipelagos of Island Melanesia for at least 40,000 years. Previous mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) studies indicated that two common lineages in this region, haplogroups P and Q, were particularly diverse, with the coalescence for P considered significantly older than that for Q. In this study, we expand the definition of haplogroup Q so that...
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