Mitochondrial sequence variation in the Guahibo Amerindian population from Venezuela

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 361-369

  Vona, Giuseppe ^a   Falchi, Alessandra ^a   Moral, Pedro ^b   Calò, Carla M ^a   Varesi, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

Author keywords

Amazon region; Amerindian populations; COII tRNALys 9 bp deletion; HV1; HV2

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; POPULATION GENETICS; VENEZUELA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS); VENEZUELA;

EID: 20444371896     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20070     Document Type: Article

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