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Genetic diversity in Puerto Rico and its implications for the peopling of the Island and the West Indies.

American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Nov 2014

Vilar Miguel G, Melendez Carlalynne, Sanders Akiva B, Walia Akshay, Gaieski Jill B, Owings Amanda C, Schurr Theodore G

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Puerto Rico and the surrounding islands rest on the eastern fringe of the Caribbean's Greater Antilles, located less than 100 miles northwest of the Lesser Antilles. Puerto Ricans are genetic descendants of pre-Columbian peoples, as well as peoples of European and African descent through 500 years of migration to the island. To infer these patterns of pre-Columbian and historic peopling of the Caribbean, we...

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PMID: 25043798
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22569

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