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AmericaPlex26: a SNaPshot multiplex system for genotyping the main human mitochondrial founder lineages of the Americas.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Coutinho Alexandra, Valverde Guido, Fehren-Schmitz Lars, Cooper Alan, Barreto Romero Maria Inés, Espinoza Isabel Flores, Llamas Bastien, Haak Wolfgang
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Phylogeographic studies have described a reduced genetic diversity in Native American populations, indicative of one or more bottleneck events during the peopling and prehistory of the Americas. Classical sequencing approaches targeting the mitochondrial diversity have reported the presence of five major haplogroups, namely A, B, C, D and X, whereas the advent of complete mitochondrial genome sequencing has...
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