Demographic reductions and genetic bottlenecks in humans: minisatellite allele distributions in Oceania.

doi:10.1007/BF00217769

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Demographic reductions and genetic bottlenecks in humans: minisatellite allele distributions in Oceania.

Human genetics - 1 Jun 1993

Martinson J J, Harding R M, Philippon G, Sainte-Marie F F, Roux J, Boyce A J, Clegg J B

Abstract excerpt

Polynesians have lower heterozygosities at minisatellite VNTR (Variable Number of Tandem Repeat) loci than have Melanesians; this has been taken as evidence of population-size bottlenecks during the colonisation of Polynesia. We have analysed the allelic distribution of several minisatellite loci...

Topics

Alleles
DNA, Satellite
Gene Frequency
Genetic Variation
Humans
Models, Genetic
Polynesia
Population Dynamics
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
White People

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