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Demographic histories and patterns of linkage disequilibrium in Chinese and Indian rhesus macaques.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 13 Apr 2007
Hernandez Ryan D, Hubisz Melissa J, Wheeler David A, Smith David G, Ferguson Betsy, Rogers Jeffrey, Nazareth Lynne, Indap Amit, Bourquin Traci, McPherson John, Muzny Donna, Gibbs Richard, Nielsen Rasmus, Bustamante Carlos D
Abstract excerpt
To understand the demographic history of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and document the extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in the genome, we partially resequenced five Encyclopedia of DNA Elements regions in 9 Chinese and 38 captive-born Indian rhesus macaques. Population genetic analyses of the 1467 single-nucleotide polymorphisms discovered suggest that the two populations separated about 162,000 years...
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