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A new subhaplogroup of native American Y-Chromosomes from the Andes.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Dec 2011
Jota Marilza S, Lacerda Daniela R, Sandoval José R, Vieira Pedro Paulo R, Santos-Lopes Simone S, Bisso-Machado Rafael, Paixão-Cortes Vanessa R, Revollo Susana, Paz-Y-Miño Cesar, Fujita Ricardo, Salzano Francisco M, Bonatto Sandro L, Bortolini Maria Cátira, Santos Fabrício R
Abstract excerpt
The human Y chromosome contains highly informative markers for making historical inferences about the pre-Columbian peopling of Americas. However, the scarcity of these markers has limited its use in the inference of shared ancestry and past migrations relevant to the origin of the culturally and biologically diverse Native Americans. To identify new single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and increase the...
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