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Population genetic structure of the people of Qatar.
American journal of human genetics - 9 Jul 2010
Hunter-Zinck Haley, Musharoff Shaila, Salit Jacqueline, Al-Ali Khalid A, Chouchane Lotfi, Gohar Abeer, Matthews Rebecca, Butler Marcus W, Fuller Jennifer, Hackett Neil R, Crystal Ronald G, Clark Andrew G
Abstract excerpt
People of the Qatar peninsula represent a relatively recent founding by a small number of families from three tribes of the Arabian Peninsula, Persia, and Oman, with indications of African admixture. To assess the roles of both this founding effect and the customary first-cousin marriages among the ancestral Islamic populations in Qatar's population genetic structure, we obtained and genotyped with Affymetrix...
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