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[Chromosome as a chronicler: Genetic dating, historical events, and DNA-genealogic temptation].
Genetika - 1 Jul 2016
Balanovsky O P, Zaporozhchenko V V
Abstract excerpt
Nonrecombinant portions of the genome, Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA, are widely used for research on human population gene pools and reconstruction of their history. These systems allow the genetic dating of clusters of emerging haplotypes. The main method for age estimations is ρ statistics, which is an average number of mutations from founder haplotype to all modern-day haplotypes. A researcher can...
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