Brazil: Recovering Mitochondrial DNA Lineages Of Extinct Amerindian Nations In Extant ...

Brazil: Recovering Mitochondrial DNA Lineages Of Extinct Amerindian Nations In Extant Homopatric Brazilian Populations Vanessa F Gonçalves, Flavia C Parra, Higgor Gonçalves-Dornelas, Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho, Hilton P Silva, and Sergio DJ Pena, 2010   Background: Brazilian Amerindians have experienced a drastic population decrease in the past 500 years. Indeed, many native groups from eastern Brazil have vanished. However, their mitochondrial mtDNA haplotypes, still persist in Brazilians,...

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