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Haplotypic background of a private allele at high frequency in the Americas.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 May 2009
Schroeder Kari B, Jakobsson Mattias, Crawford Michael H, Schurr Theodore G, Boca Simina M, Conrad Donald F, Tito Raul Y, Osipova Ludmilla P, Tarskaia Larissa A, Zhadanov Sergey I, Wall Jeffrey D, Pritchard Jonathan K, Malhi Ripan S, Smith David G, Rosenberg Noah A
Abstract excerpt
Recently, the observation of a high-frequency private allele, the 9-repeat allele at microsatellite D9S1120, in all sampled Native American and Western Beringian populations has been interpreted as evidence that all modern Native Americans descend primarily from a single founding population. However, this inference assumed that all copies of the 9-repeat allele were identical by descent and that the geographic...
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