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Phylogeographic and genome-wide investigations of Vietnam ethnic groups reveal signatures of complex historical demographic movements.
Scientific reports - 3 Oct 2017
Pischedda S, Barral-Arca R, Gómez-Carballa A, Pardo-Seco J, Catelli M L, Álvarez-Iglesias V, Cárdenas J M, Nguyen N D, Ha H H, Le A T, Martinón-Torres F, Vullo C, Salas A
Abstract excerpt
The territory of present-day Vietnam was the cradle of one of the world's earliest civilizations, and one of the first world regions to develop agriculture. We analyzed the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) complete control region of six ethnic groups and the mitogenomes from Vietnamese in The 1000 Genomes Project (1000G). Genome-wide data from 1000G (~55k SNPs) were also investigated to explore different demographic...
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