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The genetic structure of populations from Haiti and Jamaica reflect divergent demographic histories.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 May 2010
Simms Tanya M, Rodriguez Carol E, Rodriguez Rosa, Herrera Rene J
Abstract excerpt
The West Indies represent an amalgamation of African, European and in some cases, East Asian sources, but the contributions from each ethnic group remain relatively unexplored from a genetic perspective. In the present study, we report, for the first time, allelic frequency data across the complete set of 15 autosomal STR loci for general collections from Haiti and Jamaica, which were subsequently used to examine...
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