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Admixture estimates for Caracas, Venezuela, based on autosomal, Y-chromosome, and mtDNA markers.
Human biology - 1 Apr 2007
Martínez Helios, Rodríguez-Larralde Alvaro, Izaguirre Mary Helen, De Guerra Dinorah Castro
Abstract excerpt
The present Venezuelan population is the product of admixture of Amerindians, Europeans, and Africans, a process that was not homogeneous throughout the country. Blood groups, short tandem repeats (STRs), mtDNA, and Y-chromosome markers have been used successfully in admixture studies, but few such studies have been conducted in Venezuela. In this study we aim to estimate the admixture components of samples from...
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