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Population Genetic Data for 23 STR Loci of the Maya Chortí Ethnic Group in Honduras.
Genes - 16 Jul 2026
Zuniga Antonieta, Molina Yolly, Amaya Karen, Moya Zintia, Soriano Patricia, Pineda Digna, Pinto Yessica, Romero Saulo, Garcia Oscar, Zablah Isaac
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BACKGROUND: The Maya Chortí are a Mesoamerican Indigenous group of approximately 33,256 individuals in Copán and Ocotepeque, western Honduras, historically, linguistically, and culturally linked to the Classic Maya tradition of Copán. No population-specific autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) reference dataset had previously been available, requiring forensic calculations to use non-representative databases....
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