Article
Microevolution, migration, and the population structure of five Amerindian populations from Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council - 1 Jan 2000
Melton Phillip E, Baldi Norberto F, Barrantes Ramiro, Crawford Michael H
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: This research examines the coevolution of languages and uniparental genetic marker (mitochondrial DNA [mtDNA] and nonrecombining Y-chromosome [NRY]) variation within five Lower Central American (Rama, Chorotega, Maléku, Zapatón-Huetar, and Abrojo-Guaymí) Amerindian groups. This pattern occurred since European contact. METHODS: We examined mtDNA sequence variation from the hypervariable region 1 (HVS-1)...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Costa Rica
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Emigration and Immigration
- Gene Frequency
- Genes, Y-Linked
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Indians, Central American
- Language
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Nicaragua
- Population Dynamics