Reconstructing the history of Mesoamerican populations through the study of the mitochondrial DNA control region.

The study of genetic information can reveal a reconstruction of human population's history. We sequenced the entire mtDNA control region (positions 16.024 to 576 following Cambridge Reference Sequence, CRS) of 605 individuals from seven Mesoamerican indigenous groups and one Aridoamerican from...

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Main Authors: Amaya Gorostiza, Víctor Acunha-Alonzo, Lucía Regalado-Liu, Sergio Tirado, Julio Granados, David Sámano, Héctor Rangel-Villalobos, Antonio González-Martín
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3446984?pdf=render