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Mitochondrial echoes of first settlement and genetic continuity in El Salvador.
PloS one - 2 Sept 2009
Salas Antonio, Lovo-Gómez José, Alvarez-Iglesias Vanesa, Cerezo María, Lareu María Victoria, Macaulay Vincent, Richards Martin B, Carracedo Angel
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BACKGROUND: From Paleo-Indian times to recent historical episodes, the Mesoamerican isthmus played an important role in the distribution and patterns of variability all around the double American continent. However, the amount of genetic information currently available on Central American continental populations is very scarce. In order to shed light on the role of Mesoamerica in the peopling of the New World,...
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