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Genetic Diversity and Differentiation in Urban and Indigenous Populations of Mexico: Patterns of Mitochondrial DNA and Y-Chromosome Lineages.
Biodemography and social biology - 1 Jan 2016
González-Sobrino Blanca Z, Pintado-Cortina Ana P, Sebastián-Medina Leticia, Morales-Mandujano Fabiola, Contreras Alejandra V, Aguilar Yasnaya E, Chávez-Benavides Juan, Carrillo-Rodríguez Aurelio, Silva-Zolezzi Irma, Medrano-González Luis
Abstract excerpt
Aside from the admixture between indigenous people and people from overseas, populations in Mexico changed drastically after the Spanish conquest of the sixteenth century, forming an intricate history that has been underutilized in understanding the genetic population structure of Mexicans. To infer historical processes of isolation, dispersal, and assimilation, we examined the phylogeography of mitochondrial...
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