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The place of the Basques in the European Y-chromosome diversity landscape.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Dec 2005
Alonso Santos, Flores Carlos, Cabrera Vicente, Alonso Antonio, Martín Pablo, Albarrán Cristina, Izagirre Neskuts, de la Rúa Concepción, García Oscar
Abstract excerpt
There is a trend to consider the gene pool of the Basques as a 'living fossil' of the earliest modern humans that colonized Europe. To investigate this assumption, we have typed 45 binary markers and five short tandem repeat loci of the Y chromosome in a set of 168 male Basques. Results on these combined haplotypes were analyzed in the context of matching data belonging to approximately 3000 individuals from over...
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