Studies of three Amerindian populations using nuclear DNA polymorphisms.

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Studies of three Amerindian populations using nuclear DNA polymorphisms.

Human biology - 1 Dec 1991

Kidd J R, Black F L, Weiss K M, Balazs I, Kidd K K

Abstract excerpt

Three Amerindian populations, two from Rondônia, Brazil (Karitiana and Rondônia Suruí), and one from Campeche, Mexico (Mayan), were typed for up to 30 nuclear restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). Heterozygosities, both observed and expected, were compared with those of Europeans. Av...

Topics

Alleles
Brazil
Chromosome Mapping
DNA
Gene Frequency
Heterozygote
Humans
Indians, North American
Indians, South American
Mexico
Polymorphism, Genetic
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Population

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