Reduced mtDNA diversity in the Ngöbé Amerinds of Panamá.

doi:10.1093/genetics/140.1.275

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Reduced mtDNA diversity in the Ngöbé Amerinds of Panamá.

Genetics - 1 May 1995

Kolman C J, Bermingham E, Cooke R, Ward R H, Arias T D, Guionneau-Sinclair F

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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotype diversity was determined for 46 Ngöbé Amerinds sampled widely across their geographic range in western Panamá. The Ngöbé data were compared with mtDNA control region I sequences from two additional Amerind groups located at the northern and southern extremes of...

Topics

Archaeology
Base Sequence
DNA, Mitochondrial
Female
Genetic Variation
Haplotypes
Humans
Indians, Central American
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Panama
Phylogeny
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Sequence Alignment

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