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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 in the population of Rapa, a Polynesian island that is known to have undergone a demographic reduction of...
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