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Population Structure and Migration in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea; a Region Impacted by the kuru Epidemic

2022-09-27

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Populations of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (EHPNG, area 11,157 km 2 ) lived in relative isolation from the rest of the world until the mid-20 th century, and the region contains a wealth of linguistic and cultural diversity. Notably, several populations of EHPNG were devastated by an epidemic prion disease, kuru, which at its peak in the mid-twentieth century led to some villages being almost deple...

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DOI: 10.1101/2022.09.26.509478

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