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Tracing the genetic history of the 'Cañaris' from Ecuador and Peru using uniparental DNA markers.
BMC genomics - 10 Sept 2020
Sandoval José R, Lacerda Daniela R, Jota Marilza M S, Robles-Ruiz Paulo, Danos Pierina, Paz-Y-Miño César, Wells Spencer, Santos Fabrício R, Fujita Ricardo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: According to history, in the pre-Hispanic period, during the conquest and Inka expansion in Ecuador, many Andean families of the Cañar region would have been displaced to several places of Tawantinsuyu, including Kañaris, a Quechua-speaking community located at the highlands of the Province of Ferreñafe, Lambayeque (Peru). Other families were probably taken from the Central Andes to a place close to...
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