The apportionment of dinucleotide repeat diversity in Native Americans and Europeans: a new approach to measuring gene identity reveals asymmetric patterns of divergence.

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The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent of gene identity and differentiation at 33 dinucleotide repeat loci (377 total alleles) within and among three European and three Native American populations. In order to do this, we show that a maximum-likelihood method proposed for phylogenetic trees (Cavalli-Sforza and Piazza 1975) can be used to estimate gene identity (Nei 1987) with respect to any...

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