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Landscape Complexity in the Caucasus Impedes Genetic Assimilation of Human Populations More Effectively than Language or Ethnicity.
Human biology - 1 Oct 2016
Tarkhnishvili David, Gavashelishvili Alexander, Murtskhvaladze Marine, Latsuzbaia Ardashel
Abstract excerpt
The analyses of 15 autosomal and 23 Y-chromosome DNA single-tandem-repeat loci in five rural populations from the Caucasus (four ethnically Georgian and one ethnically Armenian) indicated that two Georgian populations, one from the west and the other from the east of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, were both patrilineally and autosomally most differentiated from each other, and the other populations of Georgians...
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