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Determination of population origin: a comparison of autosomal SNPs, Y-chromosomal and mtDNA haplogroups using a Malagasy population as example.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Dec 2013
Poetsch Micaela, Wiegand Aline, Harder Melanie, Blöhm Rowena, Rakotomavo Noel, Freitag-Wolf Sandra, von Wurmb-Schwark Nicole
Abstract excerpt
Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) polymorphisms have been used for population studies for a long time. However, there is another possibility to define the origin of a population: autosomal single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) whose allele frequencies differ considerably in different p...
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