Migration and ethnic change in an admixed population from the Amazon region (Santarém, Pará)

Brazilian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 511-515

  Melo Dos Santos, Eduardo José ^a   Ribeiro dos Santos, Ândrea Kelly Campos ^a   Guerreiro, Joao Farias ^a   De Aguiar, Gilberto Ferreira Souza ^b   Dos Santos, Sidney Emanuel Batista ^a  

^a Instituto de Ciências Biológicas   (Brazil)

^b MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INDIAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIGRATION; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; POPULATION GENETICS;

EID: 0029801170     PISSN: 01008455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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