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Highly discrepant proportions of female and male Scandinavian and British Isles ancestry within the isolated population of the Faroe Islands.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Apr 2006
Als Thomas D, Jorgensen Tove H, Børglum Anders D, Petersen Peter A, Mors Ole, Wang August G
Abstract excerpt
The Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean are inhabited by a small population, whose origin is thought to date back to the Viking Age. Historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence indicates that the present population of the Faroe Islands may have a mixture of Scandinavian and British Isles ancestry. In the present study we used 122 new and 19 previously published hypervariable region I sequences of the...
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