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Genetic architecture of a small, recently aggregated Aleut population: Bering Island, Russia.
Human biology - 1 Dec 2010
Rubicz Rohina, Zlojutro Mark, Sun Guangyun, Spitsyn Victor, Deka Ranjan, Young Kristin L, Crawford Michael H
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The fishing community of Bering Island, located in the Russian Commander Islands off the Kamchatka Peninsula, was originally founded by a small number of Russian soldiers and merchants, along with Aleuts forcibly relocated from the western region of the Aleutian archipelago. The purpose of this study is to characterize the genetic variation of Bering Island inhabitants for autosomal, mitochondrial, and...
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