Article
[Genetic composition of Chilean population: the Pehuenches from Trapa-Trapa].
Revista medica de Chile - 1 May 1993
Llop E, Harb Z, Acuña M, Moreno R, Barton S, Aspillaga E, Rothhammer F
Abstract excerpt
This study describes the genetic composition of Pehuenche indians from Trapa-Trapa. The admixture analysis revealed that this group has conserved most of its pre-Columbian gene pool and therefore, is representative of the indians that lived in Southern Chile before the Spanish conquest. A relatively high frequency of a esterase D variant seems to indicate that this is a Chilean aboriginal population marker. The...
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