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Founder mitochondrial haplotypes in Amerindian populations.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jul 1994
Bailliet G, Rothhammer F, Carnese F R, Bravi C M, Bianchi N O
Abstract excerpt
It had been proposed that the colonization of the New World took place by three successive migrations from northeastern Asia. The first one gave rise to Amerindians (Paleo-Indians), the second and third ones to Nadene and Aleut-Eskimo, respectively. Variation in mtDNA has been used to infer the demographic structure of the Amerindian ancestors. The study of RFLP all along the mtDNA and the analysis of nucleotide...
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