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Sub-Saharan Africa descendents in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): population and mutational data for 12 Y-STR loci.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 May 2007
Domingues Patricia Mariana, Gusmão Leonor, da Silva Dayse Aparecida, Amorim António, Pereira Rinaldo W, de Carvalho Elizeu F
Abstract excerpt
A male sample of 135 African descendents from the Rio de Janeiro population were typed for the 12 Y-chromosome short tandem repeat (STR) loci included in the PowerPlex Y System. A high haplotype diversity was observed (0.9971), with 91% of haplotypes being unique, demonstrating the usefulness and informative power of this Y-STR set in male lineage identification. Samples with shared haplotypes were additionally...
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