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Dual origins of Finns revealed by Y chromosome haplotype variation.
American journal of human genetics - 1 May 1998
Kittles R A, Perola M, Peltonen L, Bergen A W, Aragon R A, Virkkunen M, Linnoila M, Goldman D, Long J C
Abstract excerpt
The Finnish population has often been viewed as an isolate founded 2, 000 years ago via a route across the Gulf of Finland. The founding event has been characterized as involving a limited number of homogeneous founders, isolation, and subsequent rapid population growth. Despite the purported isolation of the population, levels of gene diversity for the Finns at autosomal and mitochondrial DNA loci are...
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