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Y Haplogroup Diversity of the Dominican Republic: Reconstructing the Effect of the European Colonization and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trades.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Sept 2020
D'Atanasio Eugenia, Trionfetti Flavia, Bonito Maria, Sellitto Daniele, Coppa Alfredo, Berti Andrea, Trombetta Beniamino, Cruciani Fulvio
Abstract excerpt
The Dominican Republic is one of the two countries on the Hispaniola island, which is part of the Antilles. Hispaniola was affected by the European colonization and massive deportation of African slaves since the XVI century and these events heavily shaped the genetic composition of the present-day population. To shed light about the effect of the European rules, we analyzed 92 single nucleotide polymorphisms on...
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