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Phylogeny of human beta-globin haplotypes and its implications for recent human evolution.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Jan 1990
Long J C, Chakravarti A, Boehm C D, Antonarakis S, Kazazian H H
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary histories and relationships among African, Eurasian, and Pacific Island populations are investigated by using observations on five polymorphic restriction sites in the beta-globin gene cluster. We present new data on 222 chromosomes from a global sample and combine these with previously published observations on 591 chromosomes. It is shown that the data are rich in rare haplotypes and that rare...
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