Mitochondrial lineages in Ladin-speaking communities of the eastern Alps.

doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0330

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Mitochondrial lineages in Ladin-speaking communities of the eastern Alps.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Apr 1998

Stenico M, Nigro L, Barbujani G

Abstract excerpt

European mitochondrial alleles cluster into five haplogroups. Haplogroup 2 is rare in general, but represents more than half of the few known sequences among Ladin speakers of the Alps. Here we describe DNA diversity in control region I of the hypervariable D-loop in 43 Ladins, and in 25 Italian...

Topics

Alleles
DNA, Mitochondrial
Evolution, Molecular
Genetic Variation
Humans
Italy
Linguistics

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