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A great diversity of Amerindian mitochondrial DNA ancestry is present in the Mexican mestizo population.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Dec 2009
Guardado-Estrada Mariano, Juarez-Torres Eligia, Medina-Martinez Ingrid, Wegier Ana, Macías Antonio, Gomez Guillermo, Cruz-Talonia Fernando, Roman-Bassaure Edgar, Piñero Daniel, Kofman-Alfaro Susana, Berumen Jaime
Abstract excerpt
There are limited data on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation in the Mexican mestizo population. To examine the genetic diversity and matrilineal ancestry, the full mtDNA hypervariable regions I and II were sequenced in 270 unrelated mestizos from different regions of Mexico. A total of 202 different haplotypes were identified and the haplotype diversity was 0.9945. Amerindian haplotypes predominated in the...
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